Post Match: Liverpool v Brentford (H) - 25.08.2024

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Trent looked dejected, even more so after Slot talked to him. Strange.

Anyway, a good, solid game against difficult opponents, and as others have said, we became stronger and stronger as the second half went on. That is a good sign.

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He was full of praise for him in the post match.

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Deserved a goal really, didn’t it? Stupid defender ruining our move…he should’ve just let Salah tuck that away and have been appreciative to be on the pitch, in close proximity of the best goal he’d have seen in his career. Prick.

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In our coverage Stephen Warnock was raving about the new dimension to Liverpool, about how individual brilliance has given way to clever interchanging of passes we wouldn’t have seen in years past under Klopp. Yet that passage of play looked very similar to a goal Mo scored against Newcastle about 3 years ago

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There are definite similarities in play. The difference between Klopp-ball and Slot-ball isn’t as big as it’s talked about

“Pundits” claiming that Slot has massively changed Liverpool’s style of play are just speaking out of their arse.

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Some of the stuff being said after 2 games of Slot is borderline disrespectful of Klopp. Obviously we all want Arne to do well, but we played the best football I’ve ever seen under Klopp. Some of the Mo, Mane, Bobby goals were out of this world

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And Slot’s said in his post match. Him and his coaching staff are doing what Klopp would have tried to have done had he stayed in Liverpool this season.

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It’ll be a slow change from Klopp to Slot, especially with zero new players. The set up is a bit deferent with two holders and a #10 playing centrally, a bit more controlled approach, but some of the ‘differences’ are laughable. It’s still 11 players running around passing and trying to score a goal #analysis.

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There are obvious changes but it seems more in the way we see out games and defensively.

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Exactly. There is zero doubt that Klopp would have made this team much more measured and controlled, much in the same way he did with the 17/18 team that won the CL and the PL in the following seasons.

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Thought Gravenberch was absolutely class again. Really strong start to the season for the lad, and really hoping that he can keep going.

Salah looks in the mood again. Sharp and direct, strong in the challenge as well.

There has been a notable shift in style under slot - there is a lot more control, resting on the ball, and killing games. But Klopp did this in the title season, so suggesting Slot has brought maturity, where Klopp was impetuous is nonsense. This is an evolution rather than a revolution, and I’m sure Klopp approves.

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I would say it’s too early to associate our play with the ball with the change of coach, 2 matches in.

Our play without the ball? Oh, I definitely think a new coach can claim credit if it’s vastly different to what we’ve seen.

I wouldn’t even say natural, quick thinking short, sharp passes, especially from South American players (the brilliance in that reference play for me was the final ball from Macca rather than the triangle passes before it) is something that the coach can take too much credit for regardless of how long they’ve been there as often it’s instinctive from a career of playing like that.

Now, that constant barrage of over-and-behind the defender passes that we’ve seen the last two games? To me that seems unique to the new coach and possibly a reflection of how they’ve gained confidence to perform that from what we’ve been doing in training pre-season (lots of passing drills from what I understand), as short as it was. Sure it didn’t happen anywhere near as often this week as last, when it was there against Brentford our players went for it.

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There was a video I think @Livvy posted here of an analysis of Arne’s influence in the first game against Ipswich. Two key things mentioned - a change in pressing traps with less importance on winning the ball back straight away and to work the opposing players to the flanks and then swarm them there so that the byline helps cuts off passing lines. The second thing was the focus on dominating a central box just outside the opposing penalty area.

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Watching some of the pre season gym sessions there seemed to be lots of upper body exercises whilst being in balanced/unbalanced positions as if mimicking holding off a player, and it has shown in our games where we are holding the ball up better in the forward positions when being challenged

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Our pressing trap is definitely geared to pressing the full back or wide player by the touchline and it is working a lot.

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The main difference in our style with the ball is to actually draw the opposition onto us and then play through the press, or over the press to our forwards, our midfielders then look for them dropping the ball back to play a through ball, ‘up, back, forwards’

This also happens similarly with a pass into our midfielders

This negates teams setting up a low block and gives direction to our passing, whereas previous years there hasn’t seemed to be a strategy when the ball is with our defenders, I feel we move the ball with purpose and look to play passes through the lines, which I love.

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I think Arne Slot has the same strategy as me if I was coaching a football team

  1. Get the ball
  2. Pass
  3. Pass
  4. Pass again if necessary
  5. Shoot
  6. Score
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We’ve all got our different views on yesterday and what Arne has done to the team’s style overall.

When all is said and done, opinions are like arseholes.

That said, I think we can all agree, we’re winning this fucking league.

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