How Arsenal EXPOSED Liverpool’s Man-To-Man Press | The Deep Dive

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Hello, everyone, welcome to The Deep Dive. It's just me today, don't switch off, please. I've got a great show lined up for you. This is a clip, of course, from the full deep dive over on the Redmen Plus app or website. I will be discussing today how Arsenal broke down Liverpool's man-to-man press in the middle of the park and what Liverpool did to combat that as well, which is a good thing. There was also pre-goal and post-goal stats from Michael Reid and his excellent sub-stack that are discussed in the full show. And I also wanted to look at and pull on a thread from Monday's originals podcast, which is, I don't think Liverpool have got the cohesion, which is why I don't think we've had the big chances created and stuff like that. So I started to analyse Liverpool's lineups and some very interesting findings there. If you want the full show, download it, the app, of course, and pay just a pound for your first month if you're new or £35 for the full year. Any type of subscriber on the app gets everything ad free in podcast and video form. But the most important thing is now that you enjoy the show. A bit of a peek behind the curtain. I obviously plan these shows pretty much during the game, post the game, all day Monday in my head.

And then what happens is I spend Tuesday morning getting everything together for the shows, regardless of whether Josh is here or not. Now, I'd said to Dan yesterday, this is what I'm going to do it on. I'd not looked at anything from the game. I was on Twitter yesterday and I found, I happened upon a thread by MT Analysis and he'd done this. So I just wanted to flag that. I was thinking about it but I hadn't done the work at the time. So there are a couple of these stills that are taken from the same timeframes as his tweets. I've been through his, I'd never seen his Twitter account before. I just got saved it. I've been through his tweets. He's really fucking good and I think he's going to be a good follow.

I just wanted to give him a shout out as well because I thought it was a good analysis. I don't think he's a Liverpool fan either.

I just wanted to highlight that could be a good follow for all of us.

This is from 5min11 into the game. This isn't one of the ones that he's done. So if we can bring them back up now please Owen that would be great. You can see now what I wanted to highlight is Declan Rice and Trey Andoni. These two are paired together. McAllister and Bruno Guimara's are paired together. You will see this throughout and it's Martin Odegaard that becomes the issue for Liverpool. So Trey recognises that he's quite far away from his man and starts to make that run towards him.

We obviously know Alexander Isak's job is to split the field and make them play one way. So in this scenario Isak is blocking this side of the pitch off although I'm not sure what he is. We move on, the ball is played out to Gabriel, I think it is, at this point in time. Andoni has got much closer. McAllister and Bruno Gimárez are there and this guy, this little magician of a footballer by the way, is the guy who is going to end up in a bit of free space. He's paired with him, he's paired with him, he's paired with him, he's paired with him, but there's nobody on Martin Odegaard unfortunately there. So, as we move on, it's played out to the left back and you can see it's just going in there.

And now, McAllister's kind of lost him a little bit, Trey a little bit further away, but, you know, bit of that zonal, bit of that man to man when needed, we're okay with that. So, we're moving on one more frame. Now McAllister, still with his man, Trey and Yoni still with his man roughly speaking, but this guy is free and actually, Iraloa has not done a great job of pushing forward into this area, but maybe he recognizes that there's two players there. So as the ball is fizzed in to Martin Odegaard, you can see it, he's there. Armidfielders are out of the equation. You've still got Madueke here. Yurian Timber has dragged Barcola deep and clever little ball by Martin Odegaard for Solis to run onto there. And it's played like that. And now you've got your right back out of position. Two centre midfielders are out of the game. Your left wing is staying still with Yurian Timber. And you've got Solis running into a lot of space on this left hand side.