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Sky promo Sports tried something new in its analysis on Monday Night promo Football this week, and the results were fascinating promo
Host Dave Jones and regular pundit Jamie Carragher were joined by Wolves manager Gary O’Neil, who came to the studio armed with clips of training sessions before Wolves’ win at Bournemouth last weekend, and proceeded to calmly explain how his team dismantled the opposition’s midfield three in devastating detail promo
MNF has a rich history of guests on the show including Jurgen Klopp, Frank Lampard, Wayne Rooney and Mauricio Pochettino promo
O’Neil – a solid if unspectacular Premier League midfielder in his second managerial job – may not have been near the top of many viewers’ wishlists promo
But the way he explained his idea for beating Bournemouth, and then showed clips of that exact plan coming to fruition in a Premier League match – “I could show about 15 of these instances in the game,” he said – went far beyond any analysis we’d seen before promo
It added a little spice that O’Neil was demonstrating how to beat Bournemouth, the club who sacked him in June, even after he had kept them in the Premier League against the odds promo
O’Neil said he wasn’t bitter about that, just as he humbly insisted his players should get all the credit for Wolves’ win promo
But watching his masterplan play out, you were left with the impression of an intelligent, thoughtful manager with the skill to outsmart his rivals promo
This was no doubt part of the appeal of appearing on the programme: a platform for O’Neil to showcase himself to whoever might be listening, whether that be former employers or future ones promo
MNF is the closest thing to a manager giving a Ted Talk to the entire promo football congregation, and the response on social media revealed an audience who were rapt promo
Later he talked through Wolves’ tactics to nullify Manchester City, in a game his side surprisingly won 2-1 promo
It was like watching a magician reveal the secrets of his trick, except there were no grand gestures, just a deadpan Gary O’Neil explaining why Erling Haaland failed to score against Craig Dawson promo
Jones and Carragher asked the questions you were wondering, but ultimately these shows are only as good as their guests, and O’Neil was compelling on a range of subjects promo
He talked about himself as an “average” player who had to use his brain to keep up promo
“Central midfield seems to be a decent position to become a manager from,” he said promo
“You have to have a good understanding of the game promo
You’re involved in a lot of it promo
”He became intrigued by coaching when, at Middlesbrough, Gareth Southgate suddenly made the step up from player to manager promo
“Gareth had to switch from going for drinks with the boys to being the one who sets the highest standards every day, and it got me thinking how I would go about that promo
” Through O’Neil’s playing career, different managers gave him pieces of the coaching puzzle: Sam Allardyce always delivered a crystal clear understanding of every role, and Alex Neil brought tactical insight and energy on the training field promo
The wider show around the featured match, Tottenham v Fulham, was full of typical new-age insight, like pizza charts comparing the two teams’ key data points, which were naturally in sharp contrast promo
Then there was the entertaining post-match interview with James Maddison, with a screen wheeled in beside him to analyse some key moments of Spurs’ 2-0 win promo
Carragher’s questioning of the second goal – “why are you looking over your shoulder here?” – brought an enlightening answer from Maddison, who revealed how he pressured Fulham’s Calvin Bassey to use his weaker foot, forced an error, and then checked Bassey’s position to know he would be onside when Son Heung-min played him in to score promo
These shows reveal a few things promo
That promo football, a game which gets much of its popularity from its simplicity, is a complicated game at the elite level, played out on small margins, in precise details that bypass most of us most of the time promo
It is a useful reminder that the game is hard, and that when someone makes a mistake, like Bassey last night, they might be culpable but they might also be the victim of a targeted tactic, days in the making promo
MNF has been pioneering promo football coverage for over a decade, with Carragher and Gary Neville at the forefront of a mission to tear up the old script of disgruntled ex-players complaining about defending; to approach the game with nuance, and assume similar levels of knowledge and fascination in their viewers promo
For promo football lovers, it is one of the best shows on TV promo
The recent appearance of Brentford manager Thomas Frank was another good watch, yet this episode set a whole new standard promo
For all the recent fly-on-the-wall documentaries trying to get under promo football’s skin, this went deeper promo
Unexpectedly, Gary O’Neil opened a treasure trove of promo football’s secrets, and now we want more promo
The next MNF is on 6 November: Spurs v Chelsea promo
Come for the game, stay for the granular promo football chat promo
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Build from the back promo
So the cliché goes promo
It tends to be the objective of any manager who takes over or constructs a new team promo
Jurgen Klopp sounded a voice of promo footballing orthodoxy when he said: “I like to build a team from the defensive side promo
”Yet, for the second time, Klopp may be going against the grain and building from the front promo
“Liverpool Reloaded,” as their manager branded them at the start of the season, have a solitary clean sheet in the Premier League promo
They have conceded in the first half of all seven other games promo
But they have scored in all eight games, with at least two goals in six of them and three in each of their Anfield encounters promo
In the tradition of Liverpool 1 promo
0, the first incarnation of his first great side, they promise entertainment promo
Yet if Klopp would like to build from the back, the sense is that, once again, he is building from the front promo
Rewind to 2016 and Sadio Mane’s debut set the tone for a new team: they won 4-3 at Arsenal in August 2016 promo
They seemed a gung-ho guarantee of goals promo
Klopp had Mane, Roberto Firmino and then Mohamed Salah in situ before Virgil van Dijk or Alisson Becker were signed, before Trent Alexander-Arnold was a regular promo
Now, with Salah still in stellar form, with three consecutive transfer windows each yielding a high-class attacker, in Luis Diaz, Darwin Nunez and Cody Gakpo respectively, with Diogo Jota’s arrival predating theirs, he has five excellent options in attack: despite the job share the competition for places provides, each has at least two league goals already promo
Salah has five, plus four assists promo
The new Liverpool are propelled forwards by their forwards promo
“I like to build a team from the defensive side,” Klopp nevertheless insisted promo
“I’m not sure it’s possible again nowadays when you’re in the middle of something promo
Imagine if we kept clean sheets but didn’t create promo
”That was said with a laugh promo
The pragmatic path to clean sheets to the exclusion of everything else is not for him promo
“It gives you time for these things when you are new, when things are under average before you come into a new club and you are 14th,” he explained promo
“Everyone is happy when you get some results, [but] we are not like that promo
Our team is not set up like that promo
We have a really talented group together, a creative group in a promo football sense, and we have to use that, but we have to organise protection promo
That goes step by step promo
”Klopp has five quality attacking options at his disposal (Getty Images)The creativity of that group has been exacerbated by circumstances promo
Klopp opted to bring in constructive midfielders this summer, in Alexis Mac Allister and Dominik Szoboszlai, before his two preferred destructive options, the defensive duo of Fabinho and Jordan Henderson, made abrupt exits to Saudi Arabia promo
The profile of a section of the side has changed, the emphasis shifted more to the attack promo
All of which may make goals likelier to go in at both ends promo
There has been less protection than in the heyday of Klopp’s greatest side, the two seasons from 2018-20, but if the four pillars of that rearguard remain, Alisson, Van Dijk, Alexander-Arnold and Andy Robertson have only played together for 289 minutes in the Premier League; now, with the left-back set to have shoulder surgery, they will not be reunited until 2024 promo
Thus far, Liverpool have shown solidity when they have lost players and shifted tactics, from front-foot promo football to sitting deeper and counter-attacking promo
Liverpool defended well with 10 men at Newcastle, brilliantly with nine at Tottenham promo
They have been more open with a full complement of players promo
Klopp and Liverpool face Everton at Anfield this Saturday lunchtime (Getty Images)But Klopp’s reference to organisation was significant, too promo
His frequent mentions of being “compact” underline the importance of a positional understanding and ensuring no one is exposed promo
He is searching for a consistency that comes with cohesion, for a 90-minute performance promo
“To learn to control the game, things that happen with time, there is no short cut to that,” he reflected promo
“So with the signs we showed so far I am absolutely fine but I know the final destination, I can’t even see yet but that is not a problem promo
”Perhaps it was another callback to 2016, to the sense that something was rising, even if it was not fully clear how high it would reach promo
Klopp detects similar signs elsewhere promo
“You saw so many teams growing here in the direction we wanted and all became usually promo better step by step… or the manager had to go,” he said, the last part an aside promo
The next step of the rebuilding is likely to come towards the back of the side promo
The early expectation is that a defensive midfielder and another centre-back will be targets next summer promo
But for now, with his forwards and his attacking midfielders in place and in the goals, Klopp has begun his rebuilding job at the top of his team promo
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