He also said something about the way we pressed in the first half. This was the post match interview, I didn’t catch it completely, but I think he talked about the team getting sucked into playing the man-marking style Villarreal played…?
I can’t quite remember what he said, but it was something about us not being compact enough when pressing.
once again we struggled when we pressed their back line right to the keeper with the ball. just spreads us too much in their half, gives their midfielders time to turn with the ball. Same thing happened with Citeh, trying to chase Ederson with the ball at his feet.
Yes tactically it was clear we stopped pressing space and went man to man, I’m more talking about the change in mentality. We had 66% pass completion first half, that’s the lowest we’ve done all season by a long long way, we played with the ball like it was a hot potato, it was very un-Klopp football. From minute one second half we retained posession and played the Liverpool way, intregues me what he said, probably like Limie said, probably very little!
One thing that doesn’t bother me about the title is I want number 2 and my concerns were growing what with 2 years left, now it’s four I can rest a little, let’s repeat the 2000-01 cup season with the CL replacing the UEFA cup.
I think the five subs is going help us more than most next season.
In just shy of 7 years. If someone had told me we’d have done this after being trounced 6-1 by Stoke I’d have thought them absolutely crazy. We were literally miles off. Incredible, absolutely incredible. He surely has to rank up there with Shankly as numbers one and two of our greatest managers of all time.