But the slot seems to be enough cosmetic changes in Liverpool’s game. He wants more. Apparently, we are talking about the final transformation of the “red” into the slot team. What will it be? More vertical. The arne’s actions in the previous season and summer transfers are hinted at this.
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For comparison, let’s take 5 Klopp’s last seasons headed by the Reds. The worst indicator of average ownership in the distance championship is just less than 61%. In most seasons, there is also a place in the TOP-3 by the accuracy of the passes. Not that Jurgen puts on total control over the ball and the territory – but he had. When he came to England, he wanted to play vertically, but it turned out that almost no one would allow. Liverpool lost points in scripts with a ball regularly, so the team was rebuilt – and in recent seasons with Klopp, for the most part, she created chances in a positional game. This allowed to compete with Man City, allowed to win the APL, so the approach was definitely effective. But not the only correct one. In the first season with Liverpool slot, 58% of the average ownership in the championship. By the accuracy of the passes did not enter the top 3.
It is also logical, but still unexpected: the slot came from the Championship of the Netherlands and brought a part of local football to England. There, some matches are an attack format for attack for 90 minutes. It is impossible to achieve something in the APL (because who will go with you for such a frank exchange?), And the best clubs of the country are unprofitable for uncontrollable scenarios. Therefore, Liverpool does not go to exchange, but minimizes the number of rapid cases of opponents and maximizes, as far as possible, its own. And it was the ability to attack in space that made the Premier League champion team: she scored as many as 14 heads in the League in counterattacks, no one had 11+, among the teams of the first half of the table the best figure-9. Liverpool played a record vertically-and won the APL. And Salah spent his best season in his career. “Red” rebuilt for more straight -line football – and that made them stronger.
In the last year, Liverpool Klopp scored only 6 heads in the championship in counterattacks, in the previous champion – “only” 10. “Red” with Jurgen have never been played so vertically.
Bornmouth and Kerkez as a product product
Getty Images/Global Images Ukraine. The mercy of Kerkez In the previous draw, Cherries were quite close to the finish line in the Euro Cup zone, but the average of the ball ownership did not even enter the top 12 teams of the League, the accuracy of the passes-even the top 16. But in the top 10 for scored goals. Bournemut is a fussy team. Lost the ball? Go and take away. Took away? Immediately look for a forward strand. Didn’t find? Well, beat from afar. And I do not exaggerate, every third strike of the team in the season-from outside the penalty area, in some matches the percentage exceeded 50%. Only Chelsea, Man City and Liverpool beat the opponents on average than a duel than Bournmouth. Cherries were ready to shoot from zero angles and from 30 meters, because, as they say in some children’s academies, the attack should be completed. With Iraola Bornmouth was and is straight and vertical – and that made it successful.
It is easy to guess which football will play Kerkez, which came out at the base of the team in 38 matches out of the 38th in the previous draw. So, the straight line of Iraola needed this player on the field always. Whoscored indicates the virtue of the player Cross, and the disadvantage is the gear. The portrait is easy to do, yes? The replacement of Robertson asked, but no one expected that instead of the Scottish he would take another by the performer’s profile. Andy was able to play exquisitely-not on a level with a tune, but more sophisticated than any defender of the division team. And Kerkez will give the team physics and simple solutions. It will be good to run, including in counterattack, will cross the penalty area for the first opportunity. Because the slot does not want his team to make difficult decisions on the field. It simplifies the game.
Counter -attacks are not easy, do not think. But in the counterattack, the situation for players is simpler. Less opposite, more space. If you put a top vertical game, the team will score visually light goals. Kerkez will help.
Frimpong is not a direct replacement of the trench
For several years in a row, we have said that Arnold has a wonderful vision of the field and the wickedness of playing the game through the pass, so it is a matter of time. There was no full change of position, but Klopp began to use Trenot in recent seasons in recent seasons as “eight”. He went to the center of the field and created a majority in the area, and still had more options for continuing the attack than on the flank. Although even in the limited role of the TAA broom, more than a dozen assistants to the APL per season, because it had a radio -controlled transmission to the penalty area – something at the KGB level, no one in the league has performed crosses in recent years as skillfully as a couple. In some matches, it was Arnold who became the creative center of Liverpool on the ball. Trenth’s lifters were won for the team and titles for the team. Arnold could play in a straight line-but he remembered more than the one who finds top variants in positional attacks.
Frimpong is a “train”. It is not good and not bad-just differently. His feathers are crazy efficiency. But how did he celebrate goals and assistants in Germany? When during the rapid attacks he ran to another penalty area. He did not develop the attack, did not prepare it – completed either with a blow or a simple last pass. Frimpong’s game is not called refined. It is simple, and it is simple. But the fact is that no one else in the world is attacking from the standpoint of the extreme defender as fast as this football player does. No one else scores in such situations as regularly. No one is the team’s main weapon in attack from the defense flank except Jeremy. It is unique. But for a positional attack, it is a crazy Dowgrade compared to the trench. He will not make a creative decision and will not execute the exquisite pass. You need to play differently to use Frimpong to the maximum.
In the champion season, Bayer became the second best in B1 in the number of heads in counterattacks (9, the leader scored 10). The most striking in such situations in the team was inflicted by Frimpong – 9. Even the attackers and VICs were less productive in such a scenario.
The Viec would play anyway
Getty Images/Global Images Ukraine Florian is too steep, so I will not linger on it long. Previous transfers made Liverpool more vertical, and this simply makes it stronger. If the team scored 14 in counterattacks without a verse in the club, it can score even more with it. A little above he mentioned that Frimpong made 9 beats in counterattacks in Bayer’s championship season. So, he scored 2 goals. Viec is also 2, but all others are less. So yes, Florian can be effective in the counterattack system. His top fold is to look for and find free zones between the opponent’s defense lines. That is, he is able to choose a position. And counterattack is about choosing a position where to run. And a little more about running, with that the pity is also normal. Apparently, it will be advisable to compare. In the previous season, the most in the positions on the left and “tens” played in Liverpool Dias and Soslai, respectively. Their strokes in the counterattack in the APL – 11 and 7. Salah is up to 27. There is space to improve. The Viecu guarantees it.
In the previous draw, Florian struck 4 beats after counterattack. Rafinia and Mbappe with their frantic speed – the same. Dias and Soslai have 3 attempts for two.
Ekitica is worth the money
Because brothers of the football player under style – luxury. Let’s put all the dots above “and” right away. Ekitick is not an elite player because it has clear weaknesses, but if we talk solely about a contradiction game scenario, then the elastic option is one of the best in the world. In the previous season, Eintracht scored 12 goals in the Bondesteak counterattack, any other team was maximum 8. And if the French prodigy did not implement moments the worst in Europe (there is no larger difference between the expected and actual goals in the top houses. Eintracht is a structure sharpened exclusively under counterattack, and the 3rd best club of the season in Germany. If so, in a separate aspect of vertical cases, it is a contender for the status of the best throughout Europe. Liverpool and PSG can argue.
And the elastic is the main one here. He has 22 beats after the counterattack in the championship. The closest pursuer has 16, the next one – 12, all others – at least twice less. For goals in counterattacks, as you know, the same picture, the best in the championship – is a screen (4). The football player is able to pull the ball on the dribbling, can be ready to beat with partners, runs like a cognac. And what else should you play vertically? The skill may be completed with goals, but everything else is player for an effective game of counterattack scenario. Changes the league and the country, moves from a weaker team to a much stronger – but from the team where they play counterattack, to the collective where they play counterattack. Liverpool paid 90+ not just for a promising performer, but for an elite for a specific scenario of a player.
So the team will play in this scenario. It is for her interest to create the same conditions for the player on the field in Eintracht. Otherwise, why pay so much?
Liverpool slot will play vertically
This is hinted at by absolutely all transfers. And, surprise surprise, even Isaac, whom they either wanted to buy or buy, in the top 6 of the best players of the APL season by the number of strokes in counterattacks, the Newcastle itself-in the top 3 by attempts to score from such situations. That is, the team had a specific profile of the forward, and not just chose between the two cool performers. Like any other position she strengthened in the summer. If 1-2 novice players were coming under the vertical game, one could talk about a coincidence, but not when this scenario is suitable for everyone. And not exactly after the team has put its anti-record for almost 10 years of ownership in the APL season. The course is quite clear, the slot plan is gradually crystallized: it wants to create the most dangerous in counterattacks the team of all of Europe.
And he also plans to spam attacks. Liverpool takes an Ekitica, which is a waste of chances, not some top-finisher, because the Frenchman will create many moments for himself and partners-though something, but the team implements. Frimpong also generates an industrial scale. Viec is a more assistant than a scorer. Liverpool wants to win not at the expense of elite implementation – but through the creation of a pile of moments. And for this you need to approach the gate once after. Obviously, the best option in this case is counterattack. Liverpool is already well able to play in this way, but the Paris match against PSG (1-0, but literally the only approach to the opponent’s gate in 90 minutes) proved that “red” has exactly where to grow in this direction. The team flew from the Champions League because it was not enough from the attacks on space.
Now it is unlikely to fly through it. Because there will be many vertical cases. Perhaps more than any other team in Europe. Because he sees the top football with great victories of the slot. And who are we to doubt it after such a confident victory in the APL?
Source: Sport.ua