28 Feb 2019 12:20:16
After watching last nights game does anyone agree that Klopp has said, right we are in the two main competitions still, lead in the leauge and are a few goals away from the CL quarter finals, now let's go back to the high tempo pressing game we had last season, for a whole campaign perhaps to tough to pull off, but for 10 leauge games and a potential 6 more CL games it could be doable.

1.) 28 Feb 2019
28 Feb 2019 12:59:10
Lol now everyone wants high tempo 😂😂. Don’t you realise we are top of the league by playing conservative pragmatic boring football 😂😂.
Can understand the sentiment. When Liverpool plays high press there is nothing more beautiful on the planet.

2.) 28 Feb 2019
28 Feb 2019 13:05:50
Nope I don't believe it for a second tbh! I belive we've gone away from the press being our one tactic and I believe we will use the press occasionally as we have all season but i doubt you'll see us pressing in every game for the rest of the season as you seem to have suggested. At home apart from the games v spurs and Chelsea possibly but not every game.

3.) 28 Feb 2019
28 Feb 2019 13:26:27
He's literally said out loud, and I can see it during every game.
We're picking our moments, and our opponents to do what we know we can.
Could we have gone balls out against United and won 5 -0 yes.
Could we have lost 3 - 2 doing the same. Yes.
Tactical switching up, picking our battles and our moments. Getting respite during games. Preventing injury and burn out.

Love watching the high press heavy metal. But can't be done all the time because teams set up to counter and gets us unstuck.

Now they don't know what their getting.

4.) 28 Feb 2019
28 Feb 2019 13:29:42
I guess for the remaining games we will use the high tempo and press, BUT it will depend on the opponent. My point is we will be more free and open of using the hight tempo at this part of the season if necesserry.

5.) 28 Feb 2019
28 Feb 2019 13:34:22
Harry. I agree ideally if we could play the high quality high press football every game, that would be great. But do you genuinely believe that such a tactic is sustainable for a season? Going on our previous seasons, we seem to have dips in form where energy levels have looked low.

If klopp has managed the season so that we could go into the tough period using this tactic, surely we got to be happy? We’re top and have an opportunity, as you put it, to play beautiful football in the last 10 (or 16) games.

I think everyone’s preference is for us to play football like that every game but I don’t think that's realistic for 60+ potential games this season. Unless you have a squad as deep as city’s.

6.) 28 Feb 2019
28 Feb 2019 17:36:24
Why not Reyrey? Tell me? City don’t change their tactics. Do they? Won the league last time and are participating in 4 competitions this season.
It’s all about adequate players! Add players that the manger could rotate and keep the press! We are handsome. This team is designed for press and anything else are artificial!
All you need is quality back ups! Unfortunately our backs ups are Lallana, Sturridge and Moreno! Sorry you don’t win anything with them! Give me a couple of Sané and silva and I shall keep the press for the whole season.

7.) 28 Feb 2019
28 Feb 2019 17:51:33
Wasn't the press always about springing traps, waiting for a certain player/ position on the pitch to occur and than pressing hard?

8.) 28 Feb 2019
28 Feb 2019 18:06:47
You’ve answered your own question mate. With back up not up to the highest quality, you’re dependent on the first 11 playing at high intensity every game for a season which isn’t possible.

As I said, it’s not possible unless you have the depth of city. Which we do not currently. So to expect us to maintain a high press with this team isn’t possible imo.

I’m with you that if we have the like of Sané silva etc to rotate with then yes let’s do it. But until then, I don’t see any reason to moan when the tactics are adjusted accordingly to meet the standards of the squad. Particularly when we’re top!

9.) 28 Feb 2019
28 Feb 2019 18:12:59
Klopp already addressed this earlier in the season. He said that he felt teams had figured out that by them "over-playing" against us, they allow us to press and hammer them. He anticipated that teams will figure that out and no longer "over-play" against us and would sit back. Hence, we had to find another way of playing so he made us more of a controlled, patient tempo so as to not have to be lively all the time to win a game. Clearly for the most part, it has worked this season.

Klopp also said that now if teams give us the oppo to get after them by coming at us then of course, we can do that as we have seen several times this season. In the case that they don't, we have to play smarter. Therefore, Klopp will pay the all-out style if the occasion demands it and not before, IMO. After all, he said that himself.

10.) 28 Feb 2019
28 Feb 2019 18:55:07
RedWolf, your post is a perfect riposte to the posters on here (particularly He Who Must Not Be Named) who in my opinion are either a) so arrogant that they think they know better than Klopp how he should deploy the players at his disposal; or b) so lacking in footballing intelligence that they think a team can play exactly the same tactics in every game they play whatever the opposition response is. Manchester City don’t change their tactics? Rubbish. They varied their tactics against Liverpool at Anfield and again against Liverpool at the Etihad and have done so in other games. And how many times does it have to be said - after 28 games we are the best team in the PL, better than Manchester City, because the table never lies. Keep doing what we have been doing for the last 7 months and there is no reason why we should not win the thing.

11.) 28 Feb 2019
28 Feb 2019 20:56:25
Boring and pragmatic?

You need a new hobby mate 😄.

12.) 28 Feb 2019
28 Feb 2019 21:59:10
Spot on, Ron lad. "Boring and pragmatic football". Really? Now keep in mind that this is the same Harry last season, who said why does Klopp not play the same "boring and pragmatic football" that Mou was doing at Utd at the time cos we were playing the very style he wants us to play now, and our defence kept letting us down. Now that Klopp has "taken his advice" and plays a more controlled system (which has worked btw), Harry is now whining and clutching his pearls as to why we are not playing the very style he criticized Klopp for playing last season. Contradict much, Harry?

13.) 01 Mar 2019
28 Feb 2019 23:05:47
The human torch was denied a bank loan.

14.) 01 Mar 2019
01 Mar 2019 01:27:30
Wow wow. Hold on guys! Lol they are so united to have a go at me 😂. It’s like that time of the year when they have only target to aim for 😁😁.
People talk about what I said in the past. Red wolf you called AOC “ A failed English winger who idolise Steven Gerrard “ 😂😂. You also labelled Shaqiri a fat track bully who couldn’t arse to work. 😌😌. I am miles better.

Regarding my football intelligence. It’s fair I am not at the level of Ed01, but I do have an opinion of my own unlike others who copy paste his and put in their post.
People go mum when Ed01 criticise Robertson’s performance and shout at me or other posters when they have a similar opinion. Well I am a lot better.

Regarding the press, I like our old pressing tactics. Bought the best of many players including Firmino, Salah, Henderson and most of our midfielders who ain’t blessed with keeping the ball under pressure. We are at our best in turning over the possession and releasing it quick.

15.) 01 Mar 2019
01 Mar 2019 06:48:35
Harry, you know I don’t give you a hard time in general so I feel I am justified to take exception to “boring and pragmatic”.

We have a GD of 49. Only City have higher on 55. Spurs have next best on 26!

Our football is not boring and pragmatic, it’s less kamikaze than last season but last season we won nothing.

Pragmatic - maybe! But I’m ok with pragmatic because it serves a purpose.

Boring? Never.

16.) 01 Mar 2019
01 Mar 2019 07:31:08
Fair enough Ron. No complaints when you respect others opinion. I feel our game mostly boring. Remember we dog abused this style last year. Didn’t we?
Now if we play the high tempo the same posters will abuse and mock the pragmatic approach. Lol
Like you say, nothing matters if we win the league and all I care! I will take anything for the league!

17.) 01 Mar 2019
01 Mar 2019 09:40:30
JAN, perhaps if you took a leaf out of ED01’s book and based your opinions on informed analysis and established facts, and included constructive criticism of how a player could improve, rather than the groundless, negative trolling you usually go in for, then you might get a better response from posters like me. The exchanges on Andrew Robertson above are a case in point. Ed01 points out the flaws in Robbo’s technique as he sees them and suggests how he can improve. You accuse him of ‘aimless running with no end product’ which is a complete misrepresentation of the facts (8 assists this season, etc) . You categorize your opinion of Robbo as similar to Ed01’s Is another gross distortion of the truth.

18.) 01 Mar 2019
01 Mar 2019 11:45:11
Wirral
No I don’t look into anyone’s analysis to frame my opinion which is why mine is different to most or some. I watch the game myself and frame the opinion and unless I see different I don’t agree with others. I look up to Ed01’s analysis only to compare where I stand and how mine is different to him and if I do have something then I ask him and not copy his and paste into mine.

And why exactly I should look into others post to frane my opinion? And what is this constructive criticism lol! There are no such! It’s alll about our wish and priorities.

You rate player X, I don’t! Simple End off.

19.) 01 Mar 2019
01 Mar 2019 20:15:47
Harry, I see you did not address ny post to Ron regarding your contradictory stance towards Klopp. I wonder why. For the record, I did not want either Ox or Shaq here cos of their dreadful records at their former clubs and I was wrong. So what? Clearly you you have NEVER been wrong, lol. Give over please cos none of that has anything to do with the perennially-contradictory posts you make on this forum.

The fact is that you contradict yourself so much that it is no longer worth the hassle anymore. You criticize for the sake of it while forgetting that you haled the very same thing you now criticize, in the past. It seems you are only interested in being right and if Klopp is not doing what you want, you have a moan. When he does, you stay quiet. Until it does not work and then you moan that he should go back to doing the very thing you wanted him to change. It's who you are man and I accept that so maybe it's high time you accepted it as well. Peace!