This is exactly how a football analysis should be done. 1. Understand the tactic. 2. Digging into data to realize a pattern. Best ever Tifo

Tifo IRL had this video locked 'n' loaded & ready to go 😂

It's not just the pressing. When other teams are pressing, they are just walking through us. When our pressing is successful the front 3 just can't hit a barn door at the moment and it's agony to watch as a Liverpool fan.

even Tifo pre-recorded this vid just to rub my gutted hearts after 3-0 lost

So basically: 1) While other teams got better and evolved, they stagnated and 2) the players are tired from playing this intense style of football for over 5 years non-stop with very little rotation.

The pain of being a Liverpool fan this season 🥲

I needed this because I have no idea what is going on with that club.

It's as if I'm seeing the exact same problems Man Utd were having last season... the lack of a defensive leader due to Van Dijk being injured plus out of form and no bite in the midfield is hurting them bad...on top of that as the games go on, the toxicity due to bad results and constant media bickering will make things even worse..at least they have Klopp as a leader in the dressing room..

Real Madrid were the 1st team I saw exploit this weakness... their players held the ball just long enough to be able to play it between the lines. breaking the press at key moments.

John is brilliant at explaining these tactical insights

The departure of sadio mane is somewhat affecting them Statistically,no player could press as hard as mane in the premier league for the last 3 seasons

Reds did appreciate sadio's intensity, and Gini, who hardly ever lost the ball in midfield. But not quite how much they did, two players like that can't be replaced, they were golddust

Great timing! It is just very clear that they are going from worse to worse! I do predict they will have a surprise win against everton and go on to lose 5 games after that

No mention of Mané? Liverpool's press and offensive output dropped as soon as he was traded.

This is genuinely a great video. Need to pass it on to some TV pundits.

This reminds me of Conte's 2nd season at Chelsea. It wasn't as bad as what people say, but we definitely got found out by the whole league and it looked like we had no other options

The catalyst was Sadio mane. He could press all game every game and not use too much energy doing it. It was awful losing sadio in that respect the most

The lost of Wijnaldum and Mané had a massive impact

watching Liverpool this season is painful

The true loss of this Liverpool's side is honestly Henderson. When we were in our hay day he was the silent engine in our team, helping Salah up front, covering for Trent when there's a counter attack and overrall his workrate is what made him great. Now, he is just past his prime and we see the effects of that on our team, Salah isolated, Trent getting butchured alive in that right flank .. etc. That's why i'm convinced if we find some midfielders with very high workrate and intensity, we will get back to the competition, but we didn't in the transfer market this january so the blame will land of FSG .. greedy bastards.

Liverpool doesn't want the derby to end, so they'll be joining Everton in the championship

Terrific stuff. Brilliant to watch this instead of listening to rants etc that most channels/studios serve up.

Klopp never plays full-fledged possession attacking football. Klopp fooled people into thinking they play attacking football but actually, Liverpool was playing defensive frontal counter-attacking football.

Great analysis, though I'd also add it isn't just tactics, but squad composition. You can split the team into 3 groups, players who are on top of their game and know the system and are executing, players who are too old for the system and have been burned out, new players who don't understand it and aren't in sync with the others. Each game they've got a wicked combo of the 3 that never meshes together and it shows. Injuries are not helping. They also let two of their most effective pressers (and leaders) leave in the last few years (Gini and Sadio) for bigger paychecks, which left them short and building for the future while the team was still in win now mode. They should've kept their motto of buying players to groom into superstars to keep the system rolling, not going for the biggest, shiny name (Diaz, Nunez, Gakpo, etc.)

Klopp's intensity demands so much energy and younger midfield - so, that's all buddies 😀

Christmas day I know I'm not the only one to mention this, but it is so lovely/mindbending to see the faces attached to the voices. Excellent work keep it up etc etc

Great analysis of the metrics! I wish the mainstream football pundits would use such data to do their analysis instead of using vague qualitative analysis.

Really cool breakdown of the changes Klopp had to initially make to create a PL style, really appreciate that.

I remember we also had improper pressing last season at Manchester United, we always lost due to counter-attacks.

Jon once again doing a great tactical breakdown, going really in depth but without gatekeeping with complicated jargon. Love these breakdowns.

Subscribed! This is great content and Im impressed by your soccer knowledge

John really is very good, I'm a Liverpool fan and watch every match, he's nailed the issues at hand on the pitch here

Klopp's systems are risky in that they work well when everyone is performing their role well, Fabinho's form has been poor, Trent has not been tracking back, Fabinho, Henderson and Wijnaldum used to collect and sweep up the dangerous balls and retain the ball bringing solidity at the base of midfield, Henderson would often slot in at right back to cover for Trent, it was a very defensively solid midfield, while the replacements in Thiago, Elliott, Jones and Keita do not have the same fitness or the same defensive abilities and Diaz, Jota and Gakpo do not press like Mane.

Would love to see a video on what is going wrong for southampton too, we just can't seem to string two passes together. Jones is completely clueless 😥

You are right Tifo irl , the main problem is pressing not work anymore and all this come due midfilders players hav past their peak , the number in terms of age is high no longer they can be aggressive anymore , they need to add 3 new and keep as backups like hendo fabi and thiago

Completely agree and been saying it all season!!! Combine it with historic overperforming and it looks very bad. A weak defense is now being exposed due to lack of genenpress.

Lets be honest its losing Mane and mental fatigue after losing the finals. Same thing happened to spurs when they lost the final.

No Mane, no wins anymore. Now that he is gone, you are seeing what your missing.

A key thing they're missing is the setting of the press from the front. There's a method to the madness, which someone like Firmino understands but the constant injuries and shuffling around isn't helping. A lack of confidence means you don't take on actions you'd take otherwise.

Rubbing salt into the wounds from the goblin king after that humiliation vs Wolves

This is the superior Tifo channel atm. JJ and Jon are so good

Amazing analysis 👏

The Maradona era Napoli sweater. You, Sir, are a true man of football

Tifo has a great talent for presenting something obvious as something worth watching. Great work, guys.

The subtitles for the writers/presenters of this channel are getting better and better.

Of course that team cant do a 433 high press anymore. for some reason klopp keeps forcing it week in week out though

Jon thank you for your service

I’d consider also that the game has adapted to the press and those direct attacks against are evidence of it. Your video about Brighton defenders standing on the ball is an example of that as well. Another great video as always! LFC fan here and we’ve been proper garbage. Darwin has potential but his current finishing is all over that stat wheel 😂

This is really insightful. Well done Tifo. The scary stat for me is that Liverpool are the worst team in the EPL with "xG per shot conceded." In other words our defense is sh!t !!

They are all tired, they're all old; every other team knows how to counter it/do it too. It happened to Barcelona under Guardiola. Pep learned from it and changed, and Barcelona had to get managers that weren't that different but could change some stuff like Tito or Luis Enrique. Something to look at for Liverpool.

Quality, not enough videos like this

These videos are great! Keep it up

Also TAA is an absolute traffic cone defensively

Been saying this since the before the start of the 2020 season. The signs were there. Even last year when we were challenging for the quadruple all our wins were never dominant instead we just barely scraped by due to individual play or dumb luck. Obviously that is not sustainable and it has all come to a head this season. The blame is on both FSG and Klopp. FSG for not investing immediately after the CL success, Klopp for not adapting like all good coaches but being stubborn, and yes the players too for vastly underperforming

i think at times the players try and force the press when they don’t have the numbers to, recently matip has been stepping out of defence a lot to try close the gaps but he’s making a bigger gap behind him. Fabinho has done the same so there’s a big gap between the defence and midfield. It comes from the front and the constant changes in the front 3 doesn’t help, for years it was mane firmino salah then last season our best run was when we played diaz mane salah almost every game for 6 months, now we don’t play 2 games with the same front 3 so it’s hard to build that connection and press smartly

The key players are knackered. The team doesn't run back to cover team mates when they lose possession. They have been at 100% for the past 5 years and are simply just done.

isnt xG per shot the quality of the positions from which they're taking the shot, rather than the quality of the shot itself?

They just miss the work ethic of Saido Mane. He's the guy who you'd usually see pressing hard from the front and then the team follow. Correct me if I'm wrong tho, because I don't usually watch Liverpool like that

Is there a league that has the best stats transfer to the prem? I.e do players in the Italian leagues do better than a Spanish league transfer? Id imagine there are a lot of variable but with the registration rules, I wonder if thats what teams are considering.

It is worth noting that Liverpool allowed a lot of goals from direct attacks in 2019/20, as per the statistics in this video, but that season they also won the title with the best overall defense in the league. Pressing has always been a gamble. It usually paid off for Klopp in the past, but it has to be executed properly. Immediate midfield pressure on the opposition ball carrier forces quick decisions. When the ball carrier does not have an opportunity to get his head up, it is easy to misplace the pass or for the target forward to mistime the run for an offside call.

Always a great analysis from you. I was sympathetic to Liverpool's players vs Brighton. They just couldn't understand why they are being defeated. Klopp needs time. He will get back his magic again.

They need a Gavi. Maybe they can even get The Gavi with how Tebas (LaLiga president) is hellbent on not allowing Barça to register him in the first team 😅

tifo is such a good football channel super rare nice content guys

This wouldn't have happened if they signed me back in 2019 but they said i didn't have the stamina for the EPL. Just got signed to German division 2 slowly grinding my way to football elite

Had this one ready in the drafts huh😂

The same thing happened at BVB. We were bottom of the table, players out injured constantly due to high physical demands of the play style which saw less and less success while the same kind of press worked easily on us. Crawled our way back to 7th place or something after it was announced Klopp was gonna get sacked at the end of the season. And while we saw success with Tuchel to some degree in the first season comparable to Klopp, he fell off hard during the 2nd. year - no coach since Klopp ever achieved anything close to what he did ever again. So, if you want him gone as a Liverpool fan, just consider if there truly is someone out there who can compete with your financial means like Klopp did long term. He may have a week season or two but I don't think anyone can just turn it around. Another issue imo is buying the wrong players but that's just me. I really dislike Nunez. For all his talent, he's an oversized diva who falls to easily and just doesn't have the mental strength of a Mane for example.

Is field tilt the bar that appears at the bottom of the screen of CM01/02? Measured as a percentage? Would be interested to hear what different game states lead to differing field tilts, maybe it’s different for each team depending on tactic?

Form, fitness and the importance of intangible factors. I belive the inability to strengthen the squad in certain positions while being on top of the world has weakened the team and is coming back to haunt Liverpool this year. Limping into last year's CL Final and showing significant signs of fatigue was a warning - which was missed. Injuries are nothing new, and with the age profile of our CMs and Fabinho becoming a father (a huuuuge deal for any man and bound to affect your work life balance in some way) they really missed the boat on this. Hopefully, with enough rest and a Valmet schedule next year, the team can catch a second wind next year and let a younger core start building something new and exciting. Fingers crossed.

I think other teams already know how to nullify Liverpool pressing and attack. Simply press their backlines and midfielders. If the the strikers get the ball, create a 2v1 (or more) situation. If their fullbacks try to cross, put all defenders on the box. Done

There has to be a major squad overhaul in the summer. Also Lijnders et consortes have to be gone too. Klopp needs to start fresh cuz this formula's been burned-out already.

Liverpool looked exhausted last season, this season they look like extras on the Walking Dead

zidane said they fell apart when makelele who was the least paid in real madrid left. sadio mane was the most important player but was overlooked by liverpool its common even scholes wasnt celebrated enough at manutd the glue that makes other players shine you only realise their importance when they are gone

Could u do the video of Sean dyche 1-0 Arsenal

Come on wolves!!!!!🐺

Awesome video and explanation

Brilliant analysis!

Liverpool definitely needs a rebuild. Looking at their squad, especially the starting 11 in most of their last games, there is players there that are not made for Klopp football. Attacking wise they are alright, I think the options there are good: Salah, Nunez, Gagkpo, Jota, Diaz, Fermino. Fermino probably the one that need replacing but provided that they already have a 9 in Nunes and Jota and Gagkpo capable of playing there, they should replace Fermino with a left footed right winger. A long-term replacement of Salah. They need a player like Saka, Madueke, Raphinha etc to revive their attack or develop Harvey Elliot in that position as the successor of Salah. Midfield is where they have most of the problem. Their players have aged, and Klopp's football is very energetic and very physical. They need a player in there that has the engine of Wijnaldum, and new CDM to replace Fabinho. Bajcetic is good but he's not physical enough. They need someone like Rice or Philips in there. And a successor of Henderson, a workhorse, someone like Gallagher will fit that role. Midfield should actually be their main focus. Defense is also an issue. They need a long-term replacement for van Dijk. Dayot Upamecano will be perfect as he already has chemistry with Konate, but they need to bring in 2 central defenders, one to replace Matip straight away and one to stand in as an understudy to take over from van Dijk. And then a right back to play backup to Trent.. Who should leave? Fabinho, Milner, Matip, Henderson, Arthur, Ferminho etc

pressing not working bcs they're not rotating players they keep same players for decade for other teams to get notes how to utilize their weak spots...😑

Great info, great detail, I hope you leave the info screen a little longer. When I listen to you and see the info, thinking about it while listening, you cut the info screen back to your face so I have to pause and see the info everytime.

Great breakdown and analysis.

Klopp runs his first XI into the ground. Did it at Dortmund too.

Klopp would be cooking if Liverpool's owners spent like Boehly and Co.

Curious to know if the data shows where are pressing intensity drops of the most.

I was very surprised to find our speed in the counter was just as fast, just not as clinical

Awesome analysis. Well from current evidence , that mid block ain't working either. Also this analysis drives home the point Liverpool needed/needs new fresh midfield

last time i was this early, liverpool's press still worked

Does anyone know where I can purchase one of those sweaters that Jon is wearing?

Thank god I found this channel 🔥🔥🔥

It is quite simple - he is performing a tribute act to his mentor Ralf Rangnick and I have to say, I respect it... More seriously the personnel has changed quite a bit, not just Mane the focal point of their attacking press leaving. Whilst that may have had enough to cover for him in normal circumstances, the midfield issues and injuries to Jota and Diaz have made it far more difficult and makes the system far more difficult to perform with so many changes and frankly - downgrades in midfield. Whilst we can pretend there is more going on in terms of tactical changes, and there might be, the main reason for those changes and their poorer performances is the change in personnel.... There is a reason Klopp normally takes a few months to bed new players in.

The shortest 'era of domination' ever 🤣

I want to peek inside the football mind of this man. Excellent analysis.

Impressive analysis sir. 👍

As an LFC fan this is a very sad moment for us but I think we will bounce back. It’s the whole team that’s not clicking. Yes, there are certain players who aren’t performing how they should or maybe not even should just have but I think that’s because they’re nackered. Henderson, Fabinho even vvd just aren’t making the tackles they used to. Fabinho has been displaced by 18 year old bajetic who is one of our brightest sparks! He’s 18! That’s the level of our midfield right now. Along with the fact Keita and Thiago are our 2 main choices 😂 it’s honestly depressing we play 2 injury prone midfielders and an 18 year old over Hendo and Fabinho who put in so much over the last few years. I think it’s their time to move on, klopps system is just too much for them now I think they should go to a new club as klopps system seems to be too much for them now. I think the attack is also pretty poor but I think it’s being a bit misjudged. When the midfield performs properly then I think it’s fair game to judge but also same to the defence. The midfield is the glue between them and if the midfield doesn’t work the whole team seems abysmal. I think the summer transfer window will define what happens to us. Don’t even get me started on ox or Gomez. Hopefully we turn this around. Fsg need to invest or sell its that simple especially with how spending in the pl has changed over the last 5 years. Lfc is an interesting watch as is Chelsea and United and arsenal, but us because we’re going back in the wrong direction while other clubs seem to be coming out of it, I feel something is wrong at liverpool in the management and staff of the club. I know Julian ward is leaving but why is he leaving, it doesn’t seem right a year after stepping up from being under Michael edwards. There’s just a lot going on at Lfc and it’s interesting but also worrying to see where we go from here. YNWA

Sean Dyche's Brexitball is going to beat Liverpool in the Merseyside derby at this point

Does anyone know where I can find posters like the ones in the background of this video?

We haven’t got the legs and fitness in midfield we really miss Gini Wijdalum who always broke up attacks and when Fabinho was playing at his best. We have good recruitment apparnetly yet we get Arthur Melo on deadline day in the summer.

Gwarn Wolves. Liverpool basically robbed us out of a win in the FA cup so this win is doubly sweet.

Fabinho been Injured a lot this season????? 6 months made Henderson become old ??? Wijnaldum didn't play for Liverpool last season and the press was good last season with Thiago playing.... The issue is Jurgen Klopp tactics have become stale and Liverpool have missed Everything that Mane brings. Liverpool's recruitment of late have been poor as well. These statically deep dives doesn't account for the fact that other teams have adjusted their style of play to counter Liverpool's style of play.

It's not so tough to understand. Their style of play relies heavily on pace and power. The midfield setup is key to that as they are given the job to keep up with the intensity through out so that they're compact. You need legs for that, which is literally what is missing rn for them. Since their midfielders can't cover their own spaces, they're getting ran through by any decent team. You just have to overload on one side and they are caught lacking as they have players who can't run those extra hard yards to protect the backline and maintain shape. Big problem is Klopp isn't changing anything to fit in with these players who are incapable of playing his preferred style.

So god man thank you 👏👏👏