This new system

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I’m getting a little bit excited about it. Probably because it’s quite unusual, but mostly because there have been occasions within our opening 4 games where you get little snippets of what potentially could be coming.

What makes it a bit unusual is that it’s looking like an actual proper 4-3-3, not the stagnant 4-1-4-1 you see in England and across Europe. Our midfield 3 is positioned more flat across the midfield than normal. This allows for more freedom and fluidity in the front 3. At any given moment, any of our front 3 could be centrally positioned – which is exactly what we saw on Saturday. Enter Mane’s pace to this fluid system and suddenly we’re seeing a really exciting team going forward.

There were moments during the Leicester game where one of our players would pick up the ball just slightly deep of our number 10 area, and you’d notice one or two of our attackers breaking in behind at speed. I think this is precisely one of the reasons Wijnaldum was bought. I noticed him surging ahead a couple of times to be our most advanced runner.

I’m getting a much clearer picture of Klopp’s vision. I like it.
 
The yang to this thread's ying is Brendan's thread on our inability to close games down. I wonder whether formation as well as personnel plays a part in that. Could we switch to a 4-2-31 when trying to see out a game?
 
The yang to this thread's ying is Brendan's thread on our inability to close games down. I wonder whether formation as well as personnel plays a part in that. Could we switch to a 4-2-31 when trying to see out a game?

It's personnel not strictly formation. Last time we won the league - and in all of our great teams - we had a midfield who could read danger and understand tempo, so when things got a bit heated or "on top", Whelan/ Souness/ McMahon/ Molby would just retreat, circle wagons and calm everything the fuck down.

In latter years Alonso had the brains to do the same, as did Hamann, who used to bring out "Der Krumple" at the first sign of trouble, and simply stop play entirely. Neither of those two had any real pace, so maybe it's more natural for them to NOT run around like lunatics for 90 minutes, but I'd argue it's more about their tactical nous and reading of a game.
 
It excites me too!!!!

The fluidity of movement into different positions by that front 4 is going to trouble any team... I really cannot see how you can defend against it (apart from parking the bus)

Once we work out how to break down defences just sitting deep we really will be unstoppable playing that way.
 
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