Arne Slot has transformed Liverpool tactically one of the strongest teams around Europe which is evident from the pre-season and his opening game against Ipswich town in the Premier League.
Different from Klopp
What appears to be a normal pitch when you look at the football pitch is actually Arne Slot’s tactical playground.
By combining structure and fluidity in a novel way the new head coach at Liverpool, is revolutionizing the team.
Slot’s strategies are influenced by Pep Guardiola and Roberto De Zerbi who transformed Feyenoord from an unimpressive team to a championship-winning team in just two years.
To create space and opportunities players must move dynamically Arne Slot uses a system slightly different from Liverpool’s previous boss.
Jurgen Klopp’s high-pressing high-energy 4-3-3 formation in which Liverpool’s players frequently pushed high up the pitch and launched ceaseless attacks after winning the ball contrasts sharply with his tactics.
While Klopp’s strategy was intense and exciting Slot offers a more calculated and calculated approach.
Numerical Superiority
The preferred 4-2-3-1 formation for slot, is flexible and adaptive enabling players to switch positions in response to the opponent’s setup.
The goalie for Slot steps up to form a three-man defense against a narrow front two allowing for more fluid build-up play.
He places one pivot vertically when facing a front three and he modifies his system to establish numerical superiority in midfield when facing more formidable attacking teams.
Liverpool can more successfully exploit defensive flaws and side-step opposition presses thanks to this flexibility.
By controlling the opposition’s pressing movements to isolate his full-backs and create space for attacking opportunities Slot uses a pressing trap tactic that emphasizes his tactical prowess even more.
Zone 14
Slot uses a small 4-4-2 shape on defense to give him both width and solidity.
His forwards apply a curved press to shut down the oppositions passing lanes and force them to play wide where Liverpool’s defense is better positioned to neutralize threats.
Slot likes to counter-press more methodically than Klopp does waiting for the opposition to make a second pass before applying pressure.
By doing this Liverpool are able to maintain a more disciplined defensive structure and lessen their susceptibility to counterattacks.
By concentrating on “Zone 14” the space directly behind the penalty box Slot gives Liverpool the ability to exploit through passes and create scoring opportunities through central overloads even in the event that the opposition rearranges their defense.
A football pitch can be divided into 18 boxes making it a six by three grid, tacticians and analyst use this grid to more accurately develop their game plan, this shows how much of a genius is Arne Slot.
How Slot transformed Liverpool
The transition from Jurgen Klopp to Arne Slot represent how the Liverpool management are genius in recruitment by picking out a genius manager.
Slot relies on the same pressing technique where Jurgen Klopp built the squad around it, now Slot is using the quality within the Liverpool squad to play a more aggressive pressing style of play.
He relies on numerical superiority through the center of the pitch, all the attacking players are in and around the penalty box and attack through the center.
His defensively tightly packed style of play ensures Liverpool a defensive stability, Fans can expect Liverpool to play out from the back more often in this Premier League season.
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