He won it all with his boyhood club, you won for a corrupt nation states sportswashing project that’s about to be sunk for the same inflated sponsorships which pay your salary, that’s the difference.
🔵🇳🇴 Haaland on Alexander-Arnold’s comments about Liverpool’s trophies ‘meaning more’ than City’s: “If he wants to say that, okay”.
“I’ve been here one year and I’ve won the treble and it was quite a nice feeling, I don’t think he knows exactly this feeling…”, told Sky.
"TAA was dribbled past 7 times by Doku, defensively he was cooked"
This is the barometer for what being "dribbled past" is on these stat sites.
Here’s the SEVEN times Trent was dribbled past, only 2/3 these should count, the most fugazi stat ever.
I’m rewatching the game right now 60 minutes in and I’ve got to say I have no idea how the dribbled past stat is calculated.
In what world have these stat sites clocked Trent getting dribbled past SEVEN times, unless he gets cooked in this last 30 that’s such a fugazi stat.
Trent-Alexander-Arnold has now surpassed Paul Scholes in the all time Premier League assist rankings with his 56th in the competition, only in a mere 288 less games.
1 more and it’s the most assists for a defender in the history of the league.
So wait your telling me BBC did a whole post match analysis of Trent’s defending because he got dribbled past twice whilst having tore a ligament in his knee? 🤣
These are the two clips they used as their point of reference, hilarious agenda.
Pep Lijnders:
“He hyper extended his knee in the game. Little tear in lateral ligament. He will be out probably 3 weeks. It’s a big blow…he’s one of our most important players. Even in bad spells he was the one who made the difference.”
Find it funny how Nunez’s passes actually have really nice weight and placement consistently yet whenever he gets in front of goal he just twats it as hard as he can.
So obvious that most of his issues are mental.
Liverpools entire system now revolves around Trent-Alexander-Arnold.
Since making his acclaimed inversion on April 9th 2023, he has not lost 1 game in which he has started across a 232 day time span.
This is now one of the most influential players in the world.
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For context at 25 Dani Alves had 46 G/A in 241 games and Marcelo had 59 G/A in 251.
So both combined for 105 G/A in 492 games at Trent’s current age.
Trent right now 1 month after turning 25 has 102 G/A in 309 games, he’s soon gonna surpass there combined total at his age.
Is Klopp gonna retire as the only manager to ever have a positive record vs Pep? Excluding guys that only played him once or twice.
Mental he got the better over him across 23 games.
Little spending Liverpool, so hard done by…
Darwin Nunez - £85m
Van Dijk - £75m
Alisson - £65m
Szoboszlai- £60m
Keita - £52m (😂)
Diaz - £50m
Jota- £45m
Gakpo- £44m
Salah - £44m
Fabinho - £43m
Gravenberch- £38m
How do they compete?
“Physicality” vs “Technicality ability”
The eternal riddle which Liverpool need to solve to revitalise their winning formula.
A thread on the ideal answer🧵
No actively peaking player will ever stand a chance in debates like these against established legends, especially ones that played for Barca and Real.
Truthfully, KDB is the best player out of the three, however it’ll be deemed “disrespectful” to even make the comparison.
Salah doesn’t dribble to beat his man, he dribbles to create separation for an action, ruthlessly efficient but it doesn’t count as a dribble on “FotMob”
Look how he shimmies to open up the angle to Diaz, he doesn’t need to put his fullback on the floor.
Darwin Nunez
His rollercoaster start has conjured the upmost discussion among fans. Has he truly got what it takes to compete at the elite level?
A huge summary 🧵
Here’s an example of Liverpool dismantling Leeds through their new structure and a variety of principles, some old and some new. 3-2 build up structure, CBs wide to stretch Leeds’ first line, wide triangles, and overload to isolate all present in this sequence.
The acceleration, the top speed, the strength, the aerial dominance, the ball playing, the timing, the anticipation, the overall presence.
The king is genuinely back, reclaiming his mantle.
One of the hottest topics in football right now is Pep Guardiola’s new four centre back system which seems as if it’s become his latest tactical revelation.
So why has Pep done this, and how does he implement it without losing his on and off the ball dominance?
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Trent is an insane passer of the ball but people are ignoring the fact that he’s not as loose and physically able as KDB is. KDB can be in full sprint and still be able to have the perfect weight and accuracy on a pass and from more angles on the pitch
Liverpools midfield are operationally superior on a whole scale to what they had in the past.
A complete level up in terms of technicality and intelligence which is invaluable in the domino effects it has, place last years profiles in this situation and they fail at each step.
Trent-Alexander-Arnold’s zone of influence is the entire length of the pitch, there is not a single blade of grass he cannot exploit.
It’s more than even generational levels of creation and progression, a true phenom, at right back.
Klopp has been massively critiqued this season for his tactical stubbornness, however today he introduced a new system and it worked beautifully. We may have just possibly seen the blueprints for a new look Liverpool going forward, here’s an analysis of it.
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I’m rewatching the game right now 60 minutes in and I’ve got to say I have no idea how the dribbled past stat is calculated.
In what world have these stat sites clocked Trent getting dribbled past SEVEN times, unless he gets cooked in this last 30 that’s such a fugazi stat.
We have this on the bench, do you know how insane that is?
The pocket play, the ball-striking, the dynamism, the manoeuvring of tight spaces and incisive passing, he’s a pure half-space demon.
Look at the deep creation too, a complete low block killer.
People underestimate how individual Liverpool’s “3-2-2-3” is from others. Most top coaches use the structure to rationally approach space, ensuring key zones are always occupied and their play always has width and depth, not Liverpool. Short distances between players is priority.
Clocked the issue with 90% of the analysis on Liverpool is the fact literally no one watches us.
I see so many people commenting on us and just think, there’s no way you watch our games and come to that conclusion.
@JamesNUFC92
Haha he is class tbf, him or Doku probably are the best this season however you'd have to give it Gordon since DOku's missed a decent ammount of time through injury
You can think KDBs better you can think Gerrard’s better but to say De Bruyne can match Gerrard in every department is blasphemous.
Gerrard is one of the most all rounded midfielders OAT, no final 1/3 specialist is ever matching him attribute for attribute.
Kyle Walker is covertly having a terrible terrible season yet not one single mention of it in the press, media or by anyone in general.
Different rules apply to different players it seems.
Do you ever watch the elite footballing sides and wonder, how do they impose such domination?
Footballers are brimming with ability, especially at the elite levels, so how can such prodigious talent be dominated for prolonged periods?
The art of pinning the opponent
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Individual brilliance can take you a long way; Alisson, Van Dijk, Trent and Mo Salah have dragged Liverpool to top of the table in the midst of a club rebuild.
Sure the overhaul principally looks so promising, but were still only the 3rd/4th best coached team in the league atm.
@316simsim
People disregard his legacy because Dave said no one wanted to be him growing up as if he didn’t retire 8 years before he was born. The guy has one of the most illustrious careers in the history of game.
This is where the issue arises, look how loose this definition is, every time Trent hangs out a loose leg or makes any attempt for the ball and doesn’t get it he is supposedly dribbled past.
In what world is this accurate of the name? It’s so dishonest it’s unbelievable.
Arsenal fans immediately after the game were talking about Arteta doing Klopps celebration on his head, now all of a sudden the two aren’t related??
Was true when it suited you.
Curtis Jones on Arsenal’s celebrations:
“If they wanna be stealing our stuff then it shows that we are on the right path & we’ve got these copying us!”
🚨 BREAKING: Arne Slot will be new Liverpool head coach replacing Jurgen Klopp at the end of the season!
Agreement sealed on compensation between Feyenoord and
#LFC
, all set also on contract details for Slot.
Here we go. 🇳🇱
Why do people pretend the CBs from the late 90s/2000s era were like the avengers? They were getting dunked on by Carlton Cole and Bobby Zamora.
Haaland would get one over on them as much as he gets one over on the elite CBs of today.
@LyesBouzidi10
You think Haaland would be scoring this many goals against Rio x Vidic, Keown x Adams, Terry x Carvalho, Campbell x Toure?
Ofc they were all slightly different eras but there’s not a single defender in the league that’s half as good as any of those mentioned above.
@karthik290504
International football is not the be all and end all lol, although he stepped up on multiple occasions, some of his best ever performances came in world cups
@Hmz290
lol your so weird, you’ve cut the clips to hide the fact he’s injured.
Clearly is carrying a knock throughout both duels, no coincidence why he only got dribbled past twice the whole game and both were in that minute spell.
Really enjoyed Gakpo’s usage vs Burnley.
Not a winger who’ll beat a man from a standstill, upside derives mostly from combining hence he was given constant support acts.
Liverpool repeatedly penetrated Burnley’s block from out to in through his associative play.
@rajsinghchohan
Just said the same, even today when he weren’t at his best individually (naturally first game back) he flipped the game on its head, we should’ve conceded 10 before he came on and scored 10 after. The dominoes of his presence are insane.
“The mix in possession between control and direction was close to perfect.” - Klopp put it perfectly.
People never notice what doesn’t happen, I promise you half of these sequences end in an unnecessary vertical pass a few months ago.
Trent vs Leicester.
Had just won the Club World Cup in Qatar days earlier then immediately returned for a 1st vs 2nd clash away.
Everyone thought this may be where our title run would begin to falter only for a RB to completely run the game at 20.