Will Jose also note that going at pace and toe-to-toe with Liverpool meant Sawnsea were spent on 60 and pretty much allowed Liverpool to dominate them for the final third of the game - leading to a tired tackle that led to their eventual defeat.
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The idea is, utd have (usually) clinical and dangerous offensive players, more so than the Swans, we can do the maximum run around like madmen for 60 minutes, get 2 goals, and sit deep. Swans only got 1.
Don't forget the countless 'perspective' threads.
It is an idea - but flies in the face of every match they've played under Jose so far including Leicester. Is it not a risk to try to out-press and out-run Liverpool in such a game at Anfield? Genuinely, I think Klopp will pray for such a tactic as it would play directly into Liverpool's hands.
That would only make sense of Liverpool were a really good, top and primed machine like team. Instead, it's a team still learning with young players that specialises in frantic football, not proper polished, controlled footy. In a one off game I see no reason why utd can't fight fire with fire.
Ignoring the (un)veiled digs in that post for a moment, I'm 100% certain that Mourinho will not view Liverpool in those terms. Nor would he reduce their attacking approach to being just 'frantic'. It ignores the fact that the manager has used the exact same approach to very successful levels in Germany and it would suggest that it required very little thought in terms of setting the team up. In short, Klopp's a lot cleverer and his team are more refined than your post would suggest they are.
1. It's no dig. To be the finished product takes years of smart investment and stability. I would say there have only been 4/5 ''finished product'' teams in the last 10 years or so
Myth. Mourinho throughout has career has handled these big games with far more versatility than your post would suggest.
City away with Chelsea during 13/14 is one that comes to mind. Everyone expected Chelsea to get beat but they showed up and took the game to City, deservedly winning 1-0. I can't tell if Mourinho is the same manager nowadays though.
We don't know yet. He went off with a groin injury yesterday and has been ruled out for England but Klopp hasn't confirmed how long he's out for. Lovren also picked up a groin injury and Clyne has knee one which has ruled both out for their countries.
You may well be right, I'm just basing it off the big games I've actually seen. And I'm absolutely certain that's how we'll approach this game as well, so your myth busting has precious little to do with my conclusion. But well done, either way.
Matip has been a big reason for that. We've looked a lot steadier since he came into the back four. No Moreno has helped as well.
Why do you say that? We're used to playing in front of the baying mobs, even bigger ones than Liverpool will bring.
We can only hope it goes in our favour and our players don't bottle it.
Remember the Europa League game last season? I'm expecting something like that. It wouldn't be a surprise, even in our best years we generally struggled to put in a good performance at Anfield.
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