Liverpool’s new-look aspect at present sit atop the Premier League and seem to have recaptured the swagger which helped them final raise the title in 2019/20.
Identical to Jurgen Klopp’s earlier champions, whose victory ended a 30-year anticipate a championship, the present Reds workforce have been lauded for his or her hard-running fashion and tactical self-discipline.
But many sufficiently old to recall the membership’s 2013/14 season will inform you that Liverpool had been one of many best-pressing groups in England even earlier than the German mastermind’s arrival. Glen Johnson, who was a part of Brendan Rodgers’ workforce that got here agonisingly near successful the league that season, sees loads of comparisons between the 2 sides.
“Sure, undoubtedly, when it comes to out-of-possession, urgent,” the previous right-back tells FourFourTwo on behalf of Casinodays.com. “That suffocates groups and that’s what we had been doing.”
Johnson even believes his outdated aspect had been one of many frontrunners when it got here to a tactical system which dominates the fashionable recreation.
“The one distinction is that once we had been doing it, there weren’t many different groups truly doing it,” continues the defender, who additionally starred for West Ham, Chelsea, Portsmouth and England throughout his taking part in days. “It was new on the time to press like that, successful the ball so excessive and scoring so early.
“That’s what Liverpool do now however so many different groups have latched onto that they usually do the identical factor. They simply don’t have the gamers of Liverpool’s high quality. When everyone seems to be urgent and on it, belief me, it’s exhausting to play out from the again, nobody desires the ball and also you kill groups mentally. However I undoubtedly see similarities.”
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