Conan

The low block, the reason why they can't beat the low block is that they can't sustain their attacks.

It's unbelievable.

He's changed that midfield formation where Graven Birch now is kind of getting forward before he just stayed behind the ball and he offered that wall.

So as soon as you cleared the ball invariably, he'd pick it up, start the attack again.

He'd ring fence it.

It would be difficult to clear it.

But when you're playing a team that's at the bottom of the league, which I often did in the Premier League, all you want really...

is a reprieve.

You just want an outball that you can just have a little bit of a breather, get your defensive line 10 yards further up the pitch, just regroup.

And Liverpool, in this formation, which is very Eredivisie, very Dutch, which...

I don't like in the Premier League, and I'm surprised that he's adopted it on the back of how good he was last year, is that that midfield three are rotating all the time.

And it does create numbers and it does create a little bit of space for Virts to excel in.

But what it does is that so often, Graven Virts is caught ahead of the ball.

So invariably, then you've got the likes of McAllister, who can't track people if he's the...

So the likes of Wolves, which we saw recently at Anfield and Burnley, can relieve the pressure and they can get up the pitch.

And that's why he can't break the low block down, because ultimately in a low block, what you want to do is just you want to keep your kind of like your pressure on.

So mistakes appear, you fatigue as a defender and the openings appear.

I don't understand what's going on about it all the time.

When you say it's a more Eredivisie approach.

formation yeah in the area of the busy what what you find is that every team plays the one style because of the fact that it's the dutch way of football and all those coaches are so kind of like uh they they're so brainwashed by it because it's great for them and their league but it's literally in the area of the busy it'll be a case of you win the ball back you'll have a couple of nice passes and then and there you go again and it's rotation it's fluid it's it's total football and this midfield free now right at the moment