Tiago came to Liverpool with the honor of winning the Champions League. He must be full of confidence. Even before the scandal between Diego and Liverpool came out, he had publicly expressed his affection for Liverpool and rejected Manchester United's invitation. For Diego, who has won all the championships, his goal now is a team that is expected to win a grand slam, so he chose Liverpool, and Liverpool just lacks a technical midfielder. His combination with Liverpool is perfect, which can make Liverpool play tactically to the next level, so this season Liverpool will have a more advanced and delicate style of play, and will not be too restrained in the face of bus tactics.
20 million pounds is nothing for most Premier League teams, but it is a huge sum for Liverpool, which is in a relatively poor economic situation. However, Cha Shu insisted on signing Tiago, because he firmly believed that Tiago was the last piece of puzzle that Liverpool lacked to rule the Premier League. As long as Tiago can join Liverpool, almost all the shortcomings of Liverpool in the past can be made up. Tiago is one of the few active players in La Masia's youth training midfield, and his ball control thought can bring something beyond Uncle klopp's coaching philosophy, that is Tiki-Taka tactics.
Liverpool's signing of Diego is a sure-fire deal. Why do you say that? In the past, Liverpool's three midfielders were all engineers, and they rarely contributed to the offensive end. So Liverpool's attack can only rely on the trident's running and the crosses of two full-backs. The attack efficiency is not high. Once faced with the iron drum array, it is difficult to have room for sprint. A lot of times, it's a lot of thunder and little rain, tactically crushing opponents. Defensively, most of the time, the opposing players are surrounded by crushing the number of people. Although the effect is very good, it consumes a lot of physical strength of the players, so it is difficult for such tactics to continue to shine.
After Tiago came off the bench in the early morning game, Liverpool's style of play changed completely. Throughout the second half of the game, Liverpool built tactics around Tiago. Tiago's position is always near the middle circle. He controlled the team's position by running without the ball and directed the team's offensive and defensive conversion, so Liverpool played very freely in the second half. Tiago's running distance may not be very long, but his passing and combing make Chelsea players very tired. Lampard didn't find a way to break Liverpool's defence until Chelsea used up three substitutions. In the end, Chelsea was exhausted by Liverpool's possession and achieved a complete failure.
In this game against Chelsea and Liverpool, one more player played in the second half, so Tiago played easily. If Christensen hadn't been replaced, Tiago might not get too much space to catch the ball, so Tiago's wonderful passing and organization in this game is not enough for uncle Zha to trust him completely for the time being. If Tiago can play as easily as he does today in a higher intensity competition, then he is Harvey of Liverpool. Even if his ability is not as strong as Harvey's, it is enough to help Liverpool beat more opponents in the Premier League.
Liverpool did relax a little after winning the championship ahead of schedule last season, and even gave up resistance completely, and the mentality of the players also changed. In the first game against Leeds United, Liverpool exposed the defect of unstable defense, and Zashu used Fabinho and Fan Dike as central defenders. In this way, the overall strength of the defense line has been greatly improved. Fabinho has excellent passing ability and Tiago is versatile. Even without Henderson on the court, Liverpool is fully capable of winning some tenacious opponents, even if it is not impossible to defend the league title.