I think she meant ‘daddy’.
Would love the Kop to make a ‘Slot Machine’ song to the tune of Hawkwind’s ‘Silver Machine’!
More seriously, just what formation does our new ‘head coach’ favour? This is from the Guardian, from their LFC guy Andy Hunter:
Slot operated with a 4-2-3-1 at Feyenoord and so any shift away from Klopp’s 4-3-3 would require a second midfielder to sit deeper – more opportunity for Trent Alexander-Arnold perhaps …
And this is from a BBC article that no-one has put their name to:
Carteret Analytics - which provides detailed manager assessments to Premier League, EFL, Bundesliga and MLS clubs - has assessed Slot and compared his style of football to that of Klopp’s, using quantitative metrics indicating strengths and weaknesses (as at 30 April 2024).
The company says: "There are some similarities between the two managers. Both Slot and Klopp are strong advocates of 4-3-3 formations which might assist with a transition of the current Liverpool squad from Klopp to Slot, and both enjoy identical levels of possession.
How can so-called experts differ so much? Where’s @Dutch to provide his insight as to what we might see in a Slot team?
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Not sure there’s too much difference between a 4-2-3-1 and a 4-3-3.
Did we change the role from manager to Head Coach just to draw more attention to his head?
It’s great we have a Head Coach at a football club and not a stripper club.
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To join the thousands of others who have actually been sent there?
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This is what makes us different. Klopp has set standards there on how you can be selfless nice and actually care about the club, the fans and the next set of coaches and manager. He’s spin a positive note on his departure and set the tone and platform for the next era.
Imagine Chelsea doing this. They’ll have three presentations per season!
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Sure we have a throw in coach. Always though it would make more sense to have a dedicated corner/free kick coach
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Or a proper football coach who can cover all of these areas?
We have two full backs capable of landing a ball on a sixpence, and a CB who heads like a train…
How do we coach this better? Maybe variation, or maybe a second method to recoup poor delivery?
Same as throw ins.
I know the club put faith in the guy, but how much more possession do you retain by employing a specialist?
I might be over simplifying this, but I am at a loss as to how you make good players better at the simple parts?
We had a proper football coach. It’s about marginal gains at elite level. Worth paying for in comparison to some of the other things that money gets thrown at IMO
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Well I’m not sure I’d quite go that far but a run down on tactics, strengths, weaknesses with a view on each of the players was mire of what I had in mind.
Fair enough.
Those marginal gains are important in creating a winning side.
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4-3-3 in attack
4-2-5-1 when defending
Sure about that?
Extra players are a good tactic.
The 1 is Alisson transitioning to centre forward.
Are you adding the linesmen too as wingers ?
You would have meant 4-2-3-1
I think transitions in football have gotten much more complex nowadays and it isn’t quite a simple one of having the wingers drop back to midfield now.
We probably will go with a 4-3-3 on paper and defending might well be a 4-2-3-1. But attacking , the 4-3-3 might transition to something like a 3-2-2-3 with one of the wingbacks inverting to a DM kinda role (mostly Trent) assuming a more traditional wingback (Robbo).
And the roles can change if the left wingback is the one inverting into the DM (as seen with Gomez this season where Bradley is pushed higher and wider up the field as a traditional wingback.
The game right now is about overloads right now and looking to create blocks of 4 players in the center of the field to open up the play and have options to move the ball through passing. Create a scenario where it’s 4v3 and look to get the advantage there.
Arsenal and City do that well. We’ve done it well this season but not as well as the other two
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