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Ronwol196061

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Liverpool can outpress and outplay Man City.
Their one touch, fluid attacking football is absolutely magnificent and most of the time their possesion is barely above 60% because they dont fuck around with useless nonsense backpasses or pussy foot around the opposition defence with no purpose.

We need some of that.I hope Poch takes us there
 

Shadydan

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Liverpool can outpress and outplay Man City.
Their one touch, fluid attacking football is absolutely magnificent and most of the time their possesion is barely above 60% because they dont fuck around with useless nonsense backpasses or pussy foot around the opposition defence with no purpose.

Man City find it difficult to play against Liverpool because of the serious pace they posses in attack, they aren't setup to play from the back like us - City can't play their usual game because they almost always keep one of their full backs from going forward thus limiting their possession based game.

There isn't a lot wrong with our style if we have pace up top - Son and Lucas scared them in those three matches we had last season in April - bottom line is that we need to find a way of playing with pace without sacrificing Kane or just drop him altogether for these matches which I cannot see happening.
 

wrd

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If we don't want to sacrifice Kane in games where we need pace then we need to set up similarly to England where we play 3 uptop with Sterling/Sancho but Kane drops a bit deeper and does a great job feeding them with passes.
 

LeParisien

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this is the playing style thread
I was replying to a post that said we make slow starts. That hasn’t been true for two years now.

So we can’t say “we make slow starts as we bed in playing styles”.

Thanks for your contribution though ?
 

topper

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If we don't want to sacrifice Kane in games where we need pace then we need to set up similarly to England where we play 3 uptop with Sterling/Sancho but Kane drops a bit deeper and does a great job feeding them with passes.
Might be a good shout especially if CE leaves?
 

TorontoYid

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Liverpool can outpress and outplay Man City.
Their one touch, fluid attacking football is absolutely magnificent and most of the time their possesion is barely above 60% because they dont fuck around with useless nonsense backpasses or pussy foot around the opposition defence with no purpose.

Last season I agree. So far this season though City look much stronger looking at the first couple of games and the pre-season. I don't think Liverpool can outplay them anymore if City keep improving at the rate they are. Starting to look like the team they should be given their roster.
 

double0

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Sacrifice Kane? wow!! Our style of play generally is ok we are a possession based team predominantly. I will say though we need to be more clinical and press better. A front three of Son Kane Moura is pretty quick our squad fully fit is dangerous

One thing we need to improve on is being more clinical we are far too wasteful obviously not against Man City.
 

hakano

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Sacrifice Kane? wow!! Our style of play generally is ok we are a possession based team predominantly. I will say though we need to be more clinical and press better. A front three of Son Kane Moura is pretty quick our squad fully fit is dangerous

One thing we need to improve on is being more clinical we are far too wasteful obviously not against Man City.

Agree and need to look to move the ball around quicker, we are so easy to defend against.
 

Ronwol196061

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Man City find it difficult to play against Liverpool because of the serious pace they posses in attack, they aren't setup to play from the back like us - City can't play their usual game because they almost always keep one of their full backs from going forward thus limiting their possession based game.

There isn't a lot wrong with our style if we have pace up top - Son and Lucas scared them in those three matches we had last season in April - bottom line is that we need to find a way of playing with pace without sacrificing Kane or just drop him altogether for these matches which I cannot see happening.


Everything us fine but we need to get Ndombele the ball but as much as Sissoko can bring it out he usnt great at distribution (it's ok I've seen the clip of the one ir two he did do) but Lo Celso probably can and maybe Winks would be ok in Sissokos spot.
I don't really mind Sissoko (or Dier) in the DM spot than Winks.
 

Ronwol196061

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Do we want him to be? I would prefer him to be on the end of the plays being created and putting the ball in the net. Let the Midfield do the creating

Of course I would too but Kane can be great in space...if they can buy him time that's good but if not then he could be more effective picking up the ball earlier and creating the fluidity himself.
Infact does it really have to be one or the other?
Maybe that keeps the defence out if whack. That's actually what created the sweeper when the striker played the false 9 there was a player tracking the striker and a sweeper mopping up.
In any case for me whatever creates fluidity it's the right thing in attack.
In defence it's the opposite,close the space
 

Shadydan

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Do we want him to be? I would prefer him to be on the end of the plays being created and putting the ball in the net. Let the Midfield do the creating

We're talking about combating Man City's press, Liverpool do it by using a whole load of pace which means City keep a man back to stop the counter, I think for this matchup Kane dropping deeper and having Son and Lucas as outlets isn't the word idea.
 

wiggo24

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Our mentality has definitely changed since Poch took over, that's for sure. We're much better at grinding out results (as displayed by the CL run and our games already this season).

However, in 2016/17, in the final season at the Lane, we destroyed teams. We had a clear system and team, pressed high and with intensity, and it led to us dominating the smaller teams and at least taking the game to the top 6 in those games. The unbeaten home record and defensive stats show this fairly clearly.

Since then, we seem to have somewhat lost that identity. We're not that young anymore, I can't remember the last time we really suffocated a team through our pressing and our defensive record has consistently been getting worse. NDombele and Lo Celso should freshen it up a bit, but with Eriksen/Toby leaving (either now or next season), I'm in agreement with a lot of posters here and think it's slightly worrying that we've lost our way a bit.

Here's hoping we get through this transfer window, Poch settles on a new, clear identity for his project and we start blowing teams away at the new stadium again.
 

GutBucket

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It was a lot easier to press on a narrower pitch of old WHL, even Pochettino admitted that he was wrong when the first thought WHL would be bad for his system because it was small. If we ever get super fast FBs who will bombard forward all the time we will look and play much better.
 

Ronwol196061

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It was a lot easier to press on a narrower pitch of old WHL, even Pochettino admitted that he was wrong when the first thought WHL would be bad for his system because it was small. If we ever get super fast FBs who will bombard forward all the time we will look and play much better.


I think first I think we need to get the midfield controlling things
 

hellava_tough

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It was a lot easier to press on a narrower pitch of old WHL, even Pochettino admitted that he was wrong when the first thought WHL would be bad for his system because it was small. If we ever get super fast FBs who will bombard forward all the time we will look and play much better.

Well according to wiki, it was only 1 meter narrower (or 50cm on each side)

Not sure that's going to effect things that much

It was 5 meters shorter though

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Hart_Lane

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tottenham_Hotspur_Stadium
 

Hakkz

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If we don't want to sacrifice Kane in games where we need pace then we need to set up similarly to England where we play 3 uptop with Sterling/Sancho but Kane drops a bit deeper and does a great job feeding them with passes.

Isn't that pretty much what Firminho does for Pool?
 

nicdic

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Two points. That 16/17 season when we played the back three, and played this scintillating football everyone remembers...

We started that season with a Dier Wanyama double pivot and were awful. It took us until December time to start performing anywhere like the way people people remember. It wasn't a whole season of us blowing people away.

2nd point, how many of you actually watch Liverpool games? So many of you hold them up as a great footballing team, but they're just a slicker version of Leicester for me. Rely heavily on springing Salah and Mane early with long balls from VVD/Henderson. They shouldn't be talked about in the same breath as City for me.
 
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