Liverpool Tactical Analysis
Please note that this article was written before the Southampton game. Over the years, Liverpool have had persistent goalkeeping problems that have ultimately contributed to the club being unable to make decisive surges forward to win silverware. Liverpool’s last trophy was won in 2012 with Pepe Reina between the sticks, and a year later Simon […]
It was a thrilling game, in which the points were shared, but one in which the away side will be by far the happier of the two sides. Liverpool dominated the entirety of the first-half, scoring early, cutting through Spurs with ease and squandering glorious chance after chance. Liverpool’s gameplan, to press aggressively and surrender the […]
If I were asked to sum up the Liverpool victory over Huddersfield, there’s one term which would immediately spring to mind: game management. Quite often, football games aren’t decided by tactics, errors, luck and the like all come into play from time to time, and usually, it’s Liverpool making errors where they should not be […]
“They are like a Formula 1 car. But at 4pm in London it will be difficult to speed, they would be a car like any other. We needed to make sure there was traffic, we could not let them have open roads to drive in.” – Carlos Carvahal. What a quote that is. Indeed, it […]
From start to finish, Liverpool’s Premier League tie with Manchester City was electric. Essentially, two very similar schools of tactical thinking came together, and on this occasion, Klopp’s relentless pressing from the front, numerical overloads, and astute counter-pressing positioning came out on top. Instead of breaking down the goals in this analysis, because a majority […]
I started writing a tactical piece a few months ago which was set to be titled ‘How to Stop Liverpool’. This was around the time that Liverpool suffered two bad results at Anfield in the space of a week by drawing with both West Brom and Everton despite dominating the ball in both matches. The […]
It took some doing for Liverpool to best their most ridiculous performance of the season, but somehow they managed to do it. Unlike the Sevilla fixture though, Liverpool only surrendered control for a brief handful of minutes: but that was more than enough for Arsenal to sweep in and turn the game on its head. […]
Liverpool’s demolition of Bournemouth appeared to be one of the complete performances of the season. Utterly dominant and prepotent in the first half, Liverpool romped to victory, with a pressing, passing and offensive performance which defied all expectations. xG map for Bournemouth – Liverpool. Hey, they won the xG *and* the game. pic.twitter.com/8G278mGvT1 — Caley Graphics […]
Liverpool’s one-all draw with Chelsea was a disappointing result to take given the scoreline in the 84th minute. The manner of Willian’s goal, a floated cross which found its way into the top corner, only compounded the fans’ disappointment, after surrendering a three goal lead, away from home, in midweek. The discussion about the game itself […]
Whilst watching Liverpool thrash West Ham, I didn’t quite know what was going on, but I liked it. Now, I’ve rewatched the game to get some semblance of what happened, and why it panned out the way it did. Instead of looking at the goals today, we’ll be looking essentially at the story of the […]
