In the world football in recent seasons, the Premier League giant Liverpool is undoubtedly one of the most successful teams. After reaching the Champions League final for two consecutive years, klopp led the Red Army to win the Champions League again, and last season Liverpool won the first Premier League title in the club's history. Under the careful training of klopp, Liverpool has become the most effective team in the Premier League and even in European football.
After Guardiola became the head coach of the team, Blue Moon Army Manchester City became a clear stream in the Premier League, emphasizing the skill and delicate cooperation at the foot, making Manchester City the most representative team of technical football. Although the performance in the Champions League is not satisfactory, the Blue Moon Corps has become a recognized football powerhouse, which proves that they are one of the biggest favourites in the Champions League every season.
These two teams represent the competition between the top teams in the Premier League today, which has undoubtedly become the focus of this round of Premier League. At home, Manchester City scored only 3 wins, 2 draws 1 negative in the first six games after the start of this season, and their performance was far from what the outside world expected of them. They desperately need a win to catch up with the top team in the standings, but the stability of the club has declined due to Fan Dike's injury. So scoring every point at the beginning of the season can make them more likely to defend their title. This game is undoubtedly a strong dialogue for both sides.
In this game, Liverpool, who changed coaches, was caught off guard by Manchester City in the opening stage and created threatening offensive opportunities many times. With Manet's success, Salah broke the deadlock on the field, but gradually adapted to Manchester City's initiative. De Braune first helped Jesus score to equalize the score, and then passed the ball, causing Liverpool defender Gomez to handball, but De Braune missed the penalty kick. In the subsequent game, the two teams did not fight again.
Due to Fan Dike's injury, the stability and defensive ability of the Liverpool defence are the most worrying issues for the fans of the Red Army. As the head coach of the team, klopp naturally knows this. In this game, Gomez and Matip, the partners of double central defenders, have obvious differences with Fan Dike in their personal abilities. In order to reduce the pressure of the team's defense, klopp didn't hoard defensive midfielders to share the pressure of the team's frontal defense in the middle according to the inherent thinking of the general head coach.
In this game, klopp started four strikers: firmino, Salah, Mane and Jota. When the team attacks, the formation of Liverpool will soon become 4-2-4. After the attack turns to defense, the striker will quickly take back the midfield and defend back and forth. The formation of the team will become 4-4-2, or even 4-5- 1, with only Salah in front.
Klopp laid out four front lines, and the most remarkable effect was to obviously suppress the attack of the two wings of Manchester City. In this game, Walker and Canceiro inserted the attack only a handful of times, and Liverpool's tactical concept on the offensive end of this game is also very clear, that is, the midfielder should not entangle with Manchester City, just give the ball to the four offensive players in the front line and let them threaten Manchester City's goal through small-scale cooperation. This also greatly reduced the ratio of Robertson and Arnold's assists in the two wings of Liverpool, allowing them to stay in their own half more, helping Gomez and Matip, who are not stable enough, to complete the defensive task, while placing Henderson and Vijay Nardoux, who have excellent interception ability, in klopp, increasing the defensive hardness of the team. From the data point of view, klopp's array change has played a significant role. Compared with the average data of this season, Manchester City's average number of shots dropped from 14.7 to 7, and the average number of passes dropped from 648 to 550. From the data alone, klopp's tactical concept of attacking instead of defending has played an obvious role.
In addition to the rapid growth of players, there is also a very important reason why Liverpool can achieve such great success after Cha Shu became the head coach of the team. In today's world football, most strong teams will adopt the attack concept of high position grabbing and midfield as the attack engine, but the biggest drawback of this attack mode is that it is difficult to penetrate the opponent's defense line in the face of intensive defense. After all, not every team has a player like Messi who has the ability to destroy the other team's defense.
But the Red Army coached by klopp obviously took a completely different road. He hoarded more defensive strangulation midfielders in midfield, whose biggest role was to break up the opponent's attack before the opponent entered the danger zone, while Liverpool's attack relied more on Robertson's and Arnold's wings and Fan Dike's long pass to launch directly, which maximized the depth of the opponent's defense and gave the Liverpool striker more offensive space. This is why Liverpool can become the most offensive player in European football.
Now, after Jota joins the team, klopp's dream quartet is likely to lead the world football again. At present, all the giants and midfielders in football have undertaken more and more defensive tasks, so whether they can take the advantage in the struggle between the midfield and the opposing team largely determines the offensive quality of the team. But klopp's brand-new 4-2-4 formation can minimize the number of rounds in the midfield struggle.
Compared with other European powers, one of Liverpool's greatest advantages is the excellent pitching ability of the defender. Arnold and Robertson are the best defenders in today's football. They all have the ability to find attacking teammates through long pass, and Fan Dike's direct long pass to find attacking players has long been one of the most commonly used attacking methods in Liverpool. Therefore, after Fan Dike's return in the future, Liverpool's attack can be carried out without excessive midfield. Directly connect the defender and the striker, and let four players with strong personal ability lead the team to attack. Moreover, compared with the previous Red Army Trident, this attack method not only makes the opposing defense line need to see more threatening players, but also makes defensive loopholes more likely to appear, and makes Liverpool's offensive endpoint more and more difficult to guard against!
Indeed, judging from the progress of this game, klopp's dream quartet did not completely threaten, but when the team adopted a new style of play, the whole team needed an adaptation process, and the absence of Fan Dike greatly suppressed the direct contact between the Liverpool defender and the striker. I believe that after his return, klopp's dream quartet will pose the greatest threat!