A tactical look at Liverpool’s Friday night FA Cup victory

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Liverpool fans across the globe have been crying out for Rio to start since Cody Gakpo’s form has been far from the level we expect.We got our wish, and it went exactly how we all hoped it would. We haven’t been actively searching for Gakpo and Salah in recent weeks, as the proof that they’ll do something worthwhile hasn’t been there.Wolverhampton Wanderers v Liverpool - Emirates FA Cup Fifth Round | Liverpool FC/GettyImagesEach time Rio got the ball tonight, he had one focus in mind: attack.

We’re sitting back and awaiting the pressure so we can deal with it.When we don’t have the ball, we may as well not have a midfield. We can’t play a good low block because we aren’t used to it.There were a couple of times Friday night where it seemed the trigger for Curtis Jones to start the press was when the Wolves centre-half got the ball.

They’re pedestrians in the press, and we get knocked about the park as a result.Tentative teams play boring football, and that’s what we saw for 45 minutes tonight.Wolves (again) changed the game for LiverpoolIf Slot ever wrote a book about his time at Liverpool, it would be titled ‘A Game of Two Halves’. Who knows, but their little tweak in the game ended up opening the floodgates for us.The only sliver of hope I hold out for the Champions League is that teams in that competition will attack us and we’ll find more opportunities to counter them.Tonight proved that we can still be devastating when we have the space to do so, but we still need to work on what to do when we don’t.