Speaking to the press ahead of [Liverpool](https://liverpooloffside.sbnation.com/)’s Monday night match against Brighton & Hove Albion, head coach Arne Slot was asked to speak on Federico Chiesa and his limited playing time this season:
> In terms of the quality he has, he would deserve more playing time at this football club or the club he’s playing for, because he has the quality to play for us. But unfortunately for him, he’s in competition with Mo Salah when it’s about the right wing. And I think he could also play as a left winger but there’s Cody Gakpo and Lucho Díaz. I don’t think I’m wrong if I tell you that these three have had a great, great, great season. And for him starting one or two or maybe even three nil down because the moment he came in he was not as fit as the other players were.
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> That then, of course, doesn’t help in the beginning and before he was as fit as the rest, the other ones did so well that there was not a lot of reason for me to change, and even to be in a squad then becomes difficult if Darwin Núñez and Diogo Jota are there as well.
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> But is he good enough to play for us? Yes, he is. I’ve always felt that Lucho Díaz, Cody Gakpo, and Mo Salah deserved the confidence I had in them and I hardly ever changed that set-up between the three of them.
Chiesa — and those of us keen to sing his song — will hope to see a bit more minutes in the final two games.