The quantity 10 strikes up and joins the entrance line, which forces the opposition into doing one in all two issues: both play the ball lengthy and threat turning over possession, or play the ball into the huge channels the place Liverpool are snug urgent and profitable the ball again.
Nonetheless, a scarcity of proactivity on this method has been exploited by groups already within the Premier League, with Arsenal and Chelsea each discovering methods to bypass Liverpool’s entrance line of 4 and progress the ball additional up the pitch centrally.
Slot is conscious of this situation and, for now, appears to be content material with the best way Liverpool’s defence has handled the issues.
“We wish to have management of the sport, we wish to be very aggressive with out the ball,” he mentioned earlier than the Champions League tie towards Bayer Leverkusen.
“Perhaps if we aren’t as aggressive then we’re generally a bit too excessive. We nonetheless wish to strive, however in the event you’re only a fraction too late or open a sure lane, then they will play by you.
“The great factor is I at all times see my gamers working again actually laborious to stop the opposite crew from getting an opportunity.”
