Liverpool returned to winning ways in the Premier League with a 2-0 victory over Aston Villa at Anfield.
The Reds had been on a four-game winless streak in the top flight, but they snapped that on Saturday evening with strikes from Mohamed Salah and the returning Ryan Gravenberch.
Salah struck his 250th goal for the club – becoming just the third player to do that after Ian Rush and Roger Hunt – on the stroke of half time, after an error from Emi Martinez.
The Argentine sold Pau Torres short, and Salah stroked into the unguarded net to eke the hosts ahead at the break.
They doubled their lead when Gravenberch, returning from injury, burst through from midfield, with his effort taking a deflection off Torres and into the visiting net on 58 minutes.
The champions did not have it all their own way, though, dealt a scare on six minutes when Morgan Rogers cracked the woodwork.
Matty Cash forced Giorgi Mamardashvili into a smart save at his near post as his cross-shot took an awkward ricochet off Virgil van Dijk, but the deputy shot-stopper was equal to it.
Hugo Ekitike thought he had opened the scoring, nodding home from Dominik Szoboszlai’s cross, but the Frenchman had gone too early; flagged for being a yard offside.
In the end, it was a comfortable reminder of how to win a Premier League game, as Slot’s decision to revert to experience and last season’s model proved the right one.
Up next, they welcome Real Madrid and Trent Alexander-Arnold back to Merseyside, for what should be a cracker of a Champions League clash
