Wenger, Liverpool v Roma and Who Will Get RelegatedWeekly English Premier League Opinion #32In this video, Jonny Carter talks about Wenger getting the boot at Arsenal, why Liverpool could lose to Roma and who will get relegated.What do you think? Agree? Disagree? Please let us know by commenting below.
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Manchester Utd's Random Transfer Policy Weekly English Premier League Opinion #21 Jonny Carter gives his opinion on what seems to be a very random transfer policy of Manchester United. What do you think? Agree? Disagree? Please let us know by commenting below.
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Has Pogba Just Lost the English Premier League Championship for Manchester Utd? Weekly English Premier League Opinion #15 Jonny Carter gives his opinion on how Pogba's red card could have cost them any chance of winning the EPL. What do you think? Agree? Disagree? Please let us know by commenting below.
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Has Pogba Just Lost the English Premier League Championship for Manchester Utd? Weekly English Premier League Opinion #15 Jonny Carter gives his opinion on how Pogba's red card could have cost them any chance of winning the EPL. What do you think? Agree? Disagree? Please let us know by commenting below.
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Continue readingWORLD CLASS COACHING Scoring Goals from High Pressure Defending By Luca Bertolini TABLE OF CONTENTS Part One INTRODUCTION BUILD UP OF THE MOVES Part Two EXERCISE - 4V2 + GK EXERCISE - 6V2 + GK EXERCISE - 6V3 + GK EXERCISE - 6V6 + GK SSG Part Three COUNTER ATTACKS Part Four EXERCISE - 6V4 +
Continue readingWORLD CLASS COACHING Scoring Goals from High Pressure Defending By Luca Bertolini TABLE OF CONTENTS Part Two EXERCISE - 4V2 + GK EXERCISE - 6V2 + GK EXERCISE - 6V3 + GK EXERCISE - 6V6 + GK SSG Exercise 1: 4 v 2 with goalkeeper Set-up: 40x28 yards pitch, 6 players, 1 goalkeeper, 1 mini goal,
Continue readingWORLD CLASS COACHING Scoring Goals from High Pressure Defending By Luca Bertolini TABLE OF CONTENTS Part Three COUNTER ATTACKS COUNTER ATTACKS Looking at Klopp's history as manager, “no playmaker in the world can be as good as a good counter-pressing situation;” this means that a side to side pass move often requires slow build up play,
Continue readingWORLD CLASS COACHING Scoring Goals from High Pressure Defending By Luca Bertolini TABLE OF CONTENTS Part Four EXERCISE - 6V4 + GK SSG EXERCISE - 4V2 + GK SSG Exercise 5: 6 v 4 with goalkeepers SSG Set-up: 44x32 yards pitch, 10 players, 2 goalkeepers, 2 goals, two colors bibs, cones and balls. Two teams are placed
Continue readingWORLD CLASS COACHING Tactical Series Jurgen Klopp By Alexander Trukan FOREWORD This short series tactical eBook is focused on giving a little insight into strategies used by one of the coaching masters – Jurgen Klopp. Due to the nature of the eBook format, it is a snapshot of the playing style rather than an
Continue readingWORLD CLASS COACHING Tactical Series Jurgen Klopp By Alexander Trukan TRANSITION FROM ATTACK TO DEFENSE This phase has become one of the most recognizable parts of Klopp’s brand of football. ‘Gegenpressing’ (Eng. counterpressing) has been employed by Klopp’s teams both at Dortmund and Liverpool. It is based on acknowledging the fact that opposition upon
Continue readingWORLD CLASS COACHING Tactical Series Jurgen Klopp By Alexander Trukan DEFENDING If the initial press was not effective and the possession wasn’t regained until the ball is played away into different space, the team needs to reorganise and shape a defending structure to win the ball back from. Klopp’s teams prefer a direct approach
Continue readingWORLD CLASS COACHING Tactical Series Jurgen Klopp By Alexander Trukan TRANSITION FROM DEFENCE TO ATTACK The moment when the team wins the ball back is another opportunity to use high energy and intensity. With many teams being very organised defensively and getting compact, it is increasingly difficult to break through using patient positional play. Counter
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Last season, Atletico Madrid won La Liga on the back of a strong defensive unit, good individual players and speed in transitions in both attack and defence. After losing GK Courtois, LB Felipe Luis and CF (and talisman) Diego Costa to Chelsea, they have struggled to recreate the attacking transitions that provided so many goals for Diego Costa, while being much less organised in defensive play, particularly in both horizontal and vertical compactness.
In the last 7 games against Atletico, Barcelona have struggled as Atletico’s game plan was simple – reduce space between units, stop Barcelona from being able to get players between the lines to receive and reduce the space on the side of the ball as much as possible. This did not happen.
Good Compactness in a situational 3-4-3
Here, Games is to press and play 1v1 against Messi who plays as a
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Since the summer, Liverpool have struggled to get back to the fluid and penetrative style of last season. Losing Luis Suarez was a big blow, and replacing him with 2 immobile strikers instead of a more suitable mobile player or use the rapid and mobile Divock Origi (who stayed on loan at Lille) has caused no end of problems for the team in an attacking sense.
Recently, Brendan Rodgers has found a way to fit in his £25m signing Adam Lallana, talismanic figure Coutinho and potential World Class player Raheem Sterling, by using a system of 3-4-3-0, incorporating a back 3 with Emre Can able to stride into midfield and use his excellent ball playing abilities, with raiding full backs Moreno and Manquillo offering the width on the sides.
The often criticized Joe Allen has found a position similar to the one Busquets made his trademark by dropping between centre backs and operating in front of the oppositions midfield, looking for passes into midfield or attack from a deep position, with Henderson playing ahead of him in a position to press or offer short passes to and from Allen to keep play moving.
Liverpools 3-4-3 is designed to place players between the lines and attack the
Continue readingHOW THE MATCH WAS WON by Keith Scarlett English Premier League 13 September, 2014 Aston Villa 1v0 Liverpool Liverpool paid the price for a lack of a cutting edge against a hungry, high flying Aston Villa team now firmly finding their feet under Paul Lambert and Roy Keane with a near-flawless start to the season. Aston
Continue readingHOW THE MATCH WAS WON by Keith Scarlett English Premier League 25 August, 2014 Man City 3 v 1 Liverpool Manchester City made their first big statement of the new season with a punishing display against a Liverpool side who were gutsy but failed to take their chances, ultimately suffering from individual errors; a common theme
Continue readingHOW THE MATCH WAS WON by Keith Scarlett Champions League 2nd Leg (0-0 aggregate) Wednesday, 30 April, 2014 Stamford Bridge Chelsea 1v3 Atletico Madrid What we had on display in Atletico Madrid’s 3-1 win over Chelsea in the 2nd leg of their Champions League Semi-Final on 30 April, 2014 at Stamford Bridge was nothing short
Continue readingHOW THE MATCH WAS WON by Keith Scarlett Premier League Sunday, 16 March, 9:30 AM Old Trafford Man United 0 v 3 Liverpool Usually when we discuss how a match was won, we tend to talk about what the winning side did to break down the opposition and secure the win. However, in some cases,
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Liverpool under Brendan Rodgers have shown tactical flexibility all season, changing from 4-2-3-1 at the start of the season, to 3-1-4-2, to a 4-3-3 before moving to a 4-1-2-1-2 recently, giving them a tactical edge over the opposition as he can change Liverpool’s structure to allow them to gain control of the match through a variety of ways.
Liverpool Diamond Midfield v Manchester United's 4-4-1-1
Liverpool marking in midfield while ball is on the side
Here, Gerrard has nobody to mark so he fills in the space between the defence and midfield, as Johnson blocks the forward pass, as Skrtel marks
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It is agonizing to Liverpool fans to see their team’s demise in a few short seasons. It was only five years ago that the Reds faced AC Milan for the second time in the final of the European Champions League. How is it that they have fallen so far behind their rivals Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal and most recently Manchester City? Is it all financial? Is it all because of the top management and the sale of the club twice in recent years? What will it take and how soon for Liverpool Football Club to compete with the top four again? Let us have a look at some of the soccer related components.
Goalkeepers
Liverpool have struggled in recent years to find consistent goalkeepers. A plethora of goalkeepers have come and gone in recent history without leaving any real marks, maybe except for Jerzy Dudek and only in the Champions League win in Istanbul. Keepers like Brad Friedel and David James left Liverpool to shine elsewhere and others like Scott Carson and Chris Kirkland left the club never to be heard from again (not seriously at least). In my professional opinion, Liverpool are still struggling in this area with one of the most overrated and inconsistent goalkeepers in the EPL. Pepe Reina is a good shot stopper, but lacks in almost every other important goalkeeping area. He is short and is one of the worst goalkeepers in the EPL when it comes to handling crosses. When he comes out, he rarely picks up the ball and he usually swats at it causing more trouble to his defense than had he stayed on his line. Reina usually hesitates when faced with a one-on-one situation and many times ends being caught in no man’s land or ends up upending the striker and giving away a penalty kick.
Reina, on occasion, makes some fantastic saves, but he usually balances that out by letting in some real silly goals trying so hard to impersonate
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