Trey Nyoni Is FORCING His Way Into Liverpool’s XI

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Chris Pajak (0:30)

Something that Josh mentioned to me on the deep dive show this week that he sort of spotted. Now, he was talking about the game against Brighton when we ended up seeing Barcola on the right-hand side, and maybe that was a little bit of a surprise to me.

But Josh had this theory that Barcola John was played on the right-hand side because he thought Bersagli was the slowest of the fullbacks and Barcola is the quickest of ours. And then I sort of took that and, all right, I don't think Rio went up against the slowest fullback, but he went up against the youngest in Achenpong, you know, just 20 years old. And I just wonder whether what we're now starting to see is a bit of a pattern where he's picking his wingers based on their specific skill sets, be that pace, be that trickery, and trying to sort of target which fullback they'd be better against.

John (1:17)

Yeah, that's interesting. I mean, I think we're already beginning to see Arreola as very astute in things he does.

He's just in the rotation. He's a guy who doesn't have experience of rotation because he never managed a team that did three days a week, three games a week, and he seemed to adjust into that very well. And he's moving players around and getting the best out of them, or at least trying to get the best out of them, and the best chance of making an impact. I'm really impressed with that.

Chris Pajak (1:54)

Yeah, and it's not just, like, he's not always got the start of 11 right, but he's, for the most part, completely rectified that with substitutions, hasn't he, Adam?

Adam (2:02)

Yeah, he's been really impressive, actually, in game, 100%, and I think, well, can you touch on it there?

The idea, having the interchangeable wingers, that is a thing that he's kind of brought in from Bournemouth, and I think it kind of, what you've just mentioned there, what Josh has said, I think it's maybe just gonna be a bit more of a horses for courses approach in terms of how he sets up his thump three, and it's, and you know, the more we do it, the more we do kind of rotate it in the way that we did last night, that, you know, they're gonna feel more comfortable in kind of being able to move across, and that's really good. I think, I think they've all got kind of different attributes to bring to those positions. And I still feel as though we could, we can maybe see Barcaola through the middle at some point, depending on what we come up against. I think he's kind of got the, the pacing behind to hurt teams as well. And obviously, there's the, we're still kind of walking a tightrope. If Izaac does get injured, that becomes a problem position as well. So yeah, it's really good to have the options. It's weird, isn't it? Because in the summer, we were kind of crying out for, to sign more wingers. I felt like we all felt like we were a little bit short. And yet, at the moment, it feels like we've got kind of a nice balance of options.

John (3:06)

Well, Iriola was the one who was leading that, wasn't it? Yeah, yeah, absolutely. You wanted more wingers.

Chris Pajak (3:10)

Yeah. And you can see why. He uses loads on them and he swaps them on 60 minutes and everything, doesn't he? I heard something, and I've said this on a show a while ago, from an ex Liverpool player who said that he wants to change his wingers, both of them on 60, and he wants to change the full back in every game as well.

And what he's saying to them, and what he said to them at Bournemouth is, empty the tank, don't save me anything, because you are coming off on 60 minutes. And I think that's just an interesting way to think about it, isn't it John? It's maybe a little bit different to how we normally think. Obviously you need to maybe manage your load for the full 90 minutes.