07 Dec 2017 13:14:06
Hey all, I've been away for a couple of weeks and haven't been watching the games, I'm pleased to see that Klopp continues to make me look foolish for doubting him.

I'm interested in how we've set up with the 'fab four'? Has Couts been playing #10 in a 4-2-3-1 or has he been playing in a midfield 3?

1.) 07 Dec 2017
07 Dec 2017 13:26:24
I think they played a 4-4-2 very narrow, mane and coutinho wide firmino salah top.

2.) 07 Dec 2017
07 Dec 2017 13:28:10
Phil doesn’t have a specific position especially when he occupies one of the spot in midfiled. He picks the ball from where liverpool dispossess the oppposition and carries it forward. He is one of those players who doesn’t have a position! Klopp doesn’t play a rigid formation. His front 3 just moves around according to the needs while Coutinho juts picks their runs. Just like ignore the money part of a transfer ignore his true position. He doesn’t have one!
Philippe courinho is vision!

3.) 07 Dec 2017
07 Dec 2017 13:31:10
Its hard to pin down coz it changes every game!
Last night tho he was playing on the left of a midfield 4 as a wide playmaker. We were set up as 4-4-2 last night, with Mo and Bobby up top. But our attacking players were so fluid that you couldn't really say they were playing in a rigid formation.

4.) 07 Dec 2017
07 Dec 2017 14:09:35
It’s changed almost every game - and in a good way. We seem to be mix and matching from an 3-4-3 (where Gomez plays more as a third CB) to a 4-3-3, and in the last game to a 4-4-1-1

Against Spartak Salah played very centrally with Firmino very close to him, and then Coutinho and Mane were bursting forward from wide and slightly deeper to create the ‘fab 4’ in attack everyone’s been referring to. The movement was so fluid though that defenders struggled to follow the movement and one touch passing. The second goal was a thing of beauty.

Can and Gini together with the fullbacks largely sat deeper to control midfield and protect against the counter.

5.) 07 Dec 2017
07 Dec 2017 14:16:38
Last night we started as a 443 with couts in the "8" position but then we switched to a narrow 442.

6.) 07 Dec 2017
07 Dec 2017 16:46:12
443 eh 🤔😂✌.

7.) 07 Dec 2017
07 Dec 2017 18:05:15
It was more of a 4-4-2 as VakPa said. Coutinho left midfield, Mane right midfield, with Firmino playing just off of Salah. It's the same system we used to slaughter West Ham. I think it may well be the future for us under Klopp. It is perfect for the counter attacking style, and allows us to sit back deeper and concede less without affecting our goal scoring.

It was a joy to watch. If Coutinho leaves and we persist with this formation, you'd say that we are better off targeting a player most comfortable on the wide left now rather than an attacking midfielder. It makes the prospect of signing Lemar very, very exciting.

8.) 07 Dec 2017
07 Dec 2017 19:01:45
Whatevwr the setup, the main thing is that coutinho is freed from central midfield duties and can focus the majority of his game on influencing the attack. We should all know ny now that the attacking group don't rrally play in positions. Yesterday seemed like it was a
4-2-goforthandconquer type of formation.

9.) 07 Dec 2017
07 Dec 2017 20:24:37
The formation IMO, was a hybrid 4-4-2 that can morph into a 4-3-3 or a 4-2-3-1 with Can and Wiji in the double pivot in CM with Cou and Mane on either side of Firmino behind Salah up top. Teams can't figure us out up top cos all 4 players are able to occupy almost every position in the forward line seamlessly and that will give any team fits. The bus parkers had better beware. If you park the boss, we will score 3-5 goals. If you don't, we will score 5-7 goals. Loving it. We are not the finished article yet which shows how good this team can actually be with more additions in critical areas. On to Everton.

10.) 07 Dec 2017
07 Dec 2017 21:15:36
great to see how our team is evolving into a force to be reckoned with,
I bet Salah is happy that he signed for us, we are a match made in heaven .

11.) 07 Dec 2017
07 Dec 2017 23:15:19
klopp said last night in the post match presser that it was a 4411 with couts left mane right firminio upfront and salah between the lines.