How have Liverpool rebuilt Trent Alexander-Arnold?

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How have Liverpool rebuilt Trent Alexander-Arnold?

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Trent Alexander-Arnold is the star man for Liverpool. Whilst playing in his new position in the middle of the pitch he has scored a late winner against Fulham and a late equaliser against Manchester City.
He is becoming ever more influential, both on and off the pitch. This time last year he was an unused squad player in England’s World Cup campaign, now he’s one of the country's most creative midfielders.
Ayo Akinwolere is joined by Liverpool writer James Pearce, Senior Football correspondent Oli Kay, and Data Analyst Mark Carey to chart Trent Alexander-Arnold’s evolution.
Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro - Trent Alexander-Arnold’s performance against Fulham
2:00 - How Alexander-Arnold becoming more influential for Liverpool
20:55 - Alexander-Arnold as a brand, as a figurehead
27:30 - Can Liverpool sustain a title charge?
33:00 - Where does Alexander-Arnold fit in for England
39:00 - Outro - Is Trent a midfielder full-time now?
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@cosy1914 8 ай бұрын

Trent is not a bad out and out defender. He is a good defender but not great. He has to stretch himself to get back and cover much more than most other right backs. That makes his role harder. But hes not a bad defender and seems to be improving lately.

@juancarlosmartinez3621 8 ай бұрын

Exactly. He is a good defender. He’s being asked to do more than most.

@Vegan_Photographs 8 ай бұрын

The amount of times I’ve seen him getting absolutely berated to then see another player making the same ‘mistake’ and it gets completely ignored is absolutely unreal! It seems to be that every single goal that Liverpool concedes is TAA fault, even when he’s not playing 😂

@Jack-wh2rr 8 ай бұрын

He's certainly been a below average defender for the past couple of years , mostly due to a lack of effort rather than a lack of ability. He just happens to be the best passer in the premiere league (with KDB injured rn) with elite shooting so it balances out.

@Do27gg 8 ай бұрын

Exactly I hate how casual fans just jump on the ‘Trent can’t defend’ bandwagon

@c45p3r100 8 ай бұрын

I think its an athletic problem. Trent is a pure footballer. If you're to list his top 10 attributes i dont think any of them would be an aspect of athleticism. Most wingers are the opposite, their athletic attributes are far greater than their footballing ones. Couple being slower than your opponent with having more ground to make up due to his role/ team system and he's going to look horrible and get burned. His actual defensive metrics arent bad at all,, infact they're actually pretty good, especially at the 2nd level in temrs of interceptions, challenge %, pressures etc. He just lacks the out and out athleticism required of a modern day full back. Becasue quite frankly he isnt one. He's a midfielder who can and has done (more than) a job in the role. Patiently waiting for the day he gets unleashed in the middle of the park properly, so we can all enjoy his true talent and potential.

@sleepygrinch27 8 ай бұрын

Happy to see Mark Carey is no longer stuck in a scattergram

@haimainjauo242 8 ай бұрын

He's not stuck in tetris

@AdamOBrien29 8 ай бұрын

The difference between local lads Trent and Rashford is night and day

@librarygary1618 8 ай бұрын

Rashford knows even if he gives every ounce of his soul, United won't be successful. Not excusing his work rate or lack thereof but I think he knows the club and squad is just rotten to the core. I really feel for him because he needs to leave for his career's sake but obviously playing for United is his childhood dream.

@Lewis1995 8 ай бұрын

Gerrard played a large portion of his career with the worst ever Liverpool sides and gave 100% every game

@ramshacklealex7772 8 ай бұрын

I don't think the problem there is the player, it's the club. Had he not been a United player, and if we needed a left-sided forward, I'd be happy to see him playing for Liverpool. There's only so long a player can put their heart into a club that doen't have one.

@yichengyi 8 ай бұрын

I can't put a finger on it, but there just seems to be a lack of ethical criteria and standards at MU. It's a similar toxic mentality from the owners down to the players. No soul, no culture, and no principles. Klopp has a way of finding players whose best qualities are based on integrity, conviction, and passion. I feel bad for Rashford, but there's something about making a bed that tells me he wasn't completely blind to what he might wake up to. It's just a tragedy concerning the degree of resources being wasted at that club.

@AdamOBrien29 8 ай бұрын

@@yichengyi very good insights 👌

@Do27gg 8 ай бұрын

There’s something different this season, he’s never been this confident. I can see him being on stevie’s level when he retires

@sweyn6947 8 ай бұрын

He's also in peak physical condition. He's an absolute unit since the training camp he did in the summer

@haimainjauo242 8 ай бұрын

He's always been this confident if you've really been watching.

@Do27gg 8 ай бұрын

@@haimainjauo242 you weren’t watching last season then lol

@Toronto_James 8 ай бұрын

Rebuilt him? It’s always been clear that he’s not the best defender but his technical passing & football brain is one of the best in the game at the moment. Moving him to somewhere on the pitch where he doesn’t have to defend seems bloody obvious - can’t believe that it’s taken this long tbh.

@ahmeddobrev4475 8 ай бұрын

lol you should be on the pod

@karlmyszka6363 8 ай бұрын

i mean he still plays as a right back

@notoriousd69 8 ай бұрын

He still has to regularly defend and very much still plays as a right back.

@rikachu571 8 ай бұрын

He's not a different player, he has the same strengths - range of passing, crossing, set piece delivery etc that hes always had. Likewise, he also has the same weaknesses - defensive positioning/awareness, one v one defending, aerial ability. Like any good manager, Klopp has found a role that makes more out of his strengths and mitigates some of his weaknesses.

@foley123 8 ай бұрын

I’m glad Mark Carey managed to escape from that scattergram!

@jack28aug 8 ай бұрын

one thing i'll never do is question klopp, he's bought him to this stage, he knows how to use him.

@MikeL-7 8 ай бұрын

Seeing Trent in this new role reminds me of when I heard House music for the first time in the late 1980s.

@JahRizza-ee8rd 8 ай бұрын

If you think about it, Trent is as good if not better operating in the midfield as KDB - passes, absolute worldies from outside the box, and even better excellent free kicks.

@policethreshold2719 8 ай бұрын

Trent and Klopp are creating an entirely new position where the holding midfielder now sits at RB,RM,RDM

@delakayi6286 8 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂 Camavinga and Fede Valverde have been doing that since they got to real Madrid. It's nothing new.

@SMC01ful 8 ай бұрын

@@delakayi6286 Yes, and full credit to Madrid, I hate them passionately, but credit where it's due! Indeed, since our CL final loss, LFC have knicked a few pages from Madrids playbook. Sure, it's a tad risky, but if you have the right players, it can come off. Draw the attacking team in, pull them forward let them play a little looser. However, if you can get the ball back, the team know exactly where to be on the counter. Gone are the days of counters being orchestrated by a long ball to the CF or attacking mid. It's like we've got the ball, where's Trent, Mo, yup they're in position and bang!

@rebelwithacause8735 8 ай бұрын

Trent is already playing midfield in position. Put Trent in midfield, what we do with Macca, Dom, Ryan, Curtis and Elliot ? We will always have 2 of these options and not three. Trent in addition to Any 3 while in position is a plus.

@Sassybella 8 ай бұрын

Yes! Like which current midfielder do people want Klopp to drop if Trent moves into midfield?? If he moves to midfield then he's man on man, the point of him drifting into midfield from RB is that he's an "extra man". There's just the odd occasion he's caught out and the opposition scores when the now back three (when Trent moves into midfield) are also caught out.

@nigl2807 8 ай бұрын

@@Sassybella He inverts into CB more than midfield at times. Gives him more time space and allows his vision to see whole field to be used. I couldnt see him as a more complete midfielder unless he proves to be press resistant and tackling more often (positional awareness still needs to be worked on). Note the guys are saying central positions rather than midfield.

@37wheels 8 ай бұрын

Y'all remember early last season before pep figured out his 3-2 buildup he tried running out Bernardo silva at fullback? I feel like there's a parallel universe where Trent is a silva-level free 8

@BKKLB 8 ай бұрын

Liverpool have the joint lowest goals against in the league (14, tied with Arsenal).... but all you ever hear anyone saying is how terrible they are at defending.

@IamAndreThompson 8 ай бұрын

The Athletic been killing these articles lately! What I will point out is that Salah has also adjusted to what the system requires. Also writers and pundits need to also recognize that football transitions and teams adjust very quickly to what football style is. That system worked for a while with the midfield we had. Now, it’s more creative and very young so mistakes will be made but they’re so much better with ball control and transitioning.

@ericthekop9624 8 ай бұрын

Trent. 😍😍😍

@orangehair2518 8 ай бұрын

Thomas Trent-Darby looks great for his age.

@nicholasmarcq9149 8 ай бұрын

So maybe - lets carry on getting him into positions where he can pass it into the goal!

@doubledigital_ 8 ай бұрын

people forget trent was NEVER a defender all his youth he played in mid... he only played there once he got to the first team.

@Bevan1988 7 ай бұрын

If Nunez was more clinical, Salah's stats would be through the roof

@Devlin1885 8 ай бұрын

Good to see Mark has escaped from the scattergram!

@rmccaw7 8 ай бұрын

He's not just the best right back in the world. He's the best midfielder.

@unclefatbloke 8 ай бұрын

Hahahaha

@ArmyofLove 8 ай бұрын

Mark, A quality player can do both from deep or assisting and from most areas of the pitch. I'm still so tired of stats guys ruining the nature of football.

@anovaguy 8 ай бұрын

Are we now in the Age of Trent?

@BevisFriend2010 8 ай бұрын

Losing Firmino's game intelligence has made scoring seem a lot more difficult this season. Bobby was a master at leading the press and creating chances from nothing. Having played so much together maybe they're looking at Trent as the new Firmino on the front foot and Fabinho on the back foot? He's genuinely good enough to switch roles in game. Play Gomez on the left once we take the lead to double up when defending the space that gets targeted behind hm.

@sutton1238 8 ай бұрын

It's insane how the media is criticising trent the am9unt of criticism he's getting as opposed to some of the players in top4 , walker trent tripper prowse and harvey barnes and saka are the best English English players compared to France

@haimainjauo242 8 ай бұрын

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@peterlpool1387 8 ай бұрын

Oli been on a 4-day bender?

@jpgduff 8 ай бұрын

Oli missed the part where Szoboszlai goes wide and Mo inverts? He doesn't stay wide? Slightly deeper maybe but he doesn't stay wide.

@c45p3r100 8 ай бұрын

@hathwayh3209 8 ай бұрын

Rubbish

@stephenjordan7048 7 ай бұрын

I didn't realise he know more than kloop

@sjolson68 8 ай бұрын

What is this narrative, everywhere? They've conceded less than City and lost fewer games than City but no one talks about City's defense being pourous. City did fuck all against Liverpool, as well. All this rubbish narrative is really strange.

@vanng5689 8 ай бұрын

Why not just play him in midfield. He's not interested or good at defending! He could have taken that free kick playing innany position. Also the opposition now target the space at right back when he wanders off in midfield which causes all kind of mayhem for liverpool. We only beat fulham by scoring spectacular goals, but base on probability of those special goals going in...on another day that would have been a lost to fulham.

@ingolf82 8 ай бұрын

39:00 no James, a number 6 has to know how to defend and we all know Trent doesn't defend. Trent is an 8/10 and he should play there, but if we are using him there, he should get used to being rotated with Szoboslai, Jones and Gravenberch. we have so many midfielders now that are all good. Trent will not be an automatic starter in that 8 role and he can't defend so he can't play as a 6. So if Klopp wants trent to play, we need to change formation, maybe 3 at the back, 4 midfielders and 3 attackers.

@Damo699 8 ай бұрын

Are we really saying international football is the highest level? Would England beat Man City. Before you list out players think about the coaches...

@PokemanJay. 8 ай бұрын

Klopp really doesn't like James Pearce does he lol

@xxarra 8 ай бұрын

Good guy pearce

@timmy5876 8 ай бұрын

i’m happy we have players like dom macca and gravenberch now but i low-key wish we didn’t sign one of them and instead sign a right back and put trent in midfield. He’s proven this season that he can play in midfield fully rather than just inverting and whilst at times it would be better to have him and another 3 midfielders i think against top teams i’d rather him in midfield over macca or gravenberch as an 8 and someone more solid behind him. I wanted to see this with gomez at right back but gomez hasn’t impressed me at all this season he’s not much better than trent defensively and he’s terrible on the ball, if he wasn’t quick he’d have nothing to his game

@macbelwoldie6201 8 ай бұрын

He cut his hair ✂️ that’s the secret

@rolltru 8 ай бұрын

Trent is still very much abused by rival fans

@stephenjordan7048 7 ай бұрын

Southgate is better than kloop

@sbassett5572 8 ай бұрын

Its almost like seasons and careers have ups and downs and every video you do is just overstating those peaks and troughs and pretending they're significant!

@jadmantoura4483 8 ай бұрын

If it was off target and only went in because it bounced off Leno, then it’s a Leno own goal. Simple as that. End of. I don’t understand what the problem is here. Whether you “hate it when that happens” is completely and utterly meaningless, immaterial and irrelevant, to be blunt. Those are the rules of the game.

@abiolaolayinka2023 8 ай бұрын

You make a valid objective point, but football is more than the details. And he DID hit it so beautifully, it deserved to be his goal, we do hate it when that happens, we are intelligent enough to know it doesn't matter what we think because it's an own goal, and that's okay.

@jack28aug 8 ай бұрын

must also be irrelevant to say without the diaz offside we'd be unbeaten in the league.

@obifinest521 8 ай бұрын

Are you 100 percent sure that the goal might not have gone in without Leno? Haven’t you seen balls roll back in with a spin? You sound like a snitch…..

@stephenjordan7048 7 ай бұрын

I'm sick of this stat shit

@rebelwithacause8735 8 ай бұрын

@@DomLeer ??

@rebelwithacause8735 8 ай бұрын

@@DomLeer okay, so you put Trent in midfield and get a CDM you all are calling for, what you do with your other. So you have Trent , a CDM and to pick 1 out of 5 possible talented midfielders? You stupid.

@rebelwithacause8735 8 ай бұрын

@@DomLeer and further more, everyone needs minutes. The amount of games in short order, you need to have the ability to rotate the squad, dummy