Andoni Iraola backs backroom staff to help cure Liverpool’s set-piece ills

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Andoni Iraola has outlined the roles his backroom staff will play in trying to improve Liverpool’s set-piece record next season and admitted he was “very lucky” to inherit a talented coaching team at Bournemouth.Iraola has brought several members of his Bournemouth backroom team with him to Liverpool since succeeding Arne Slot last month. Tommy Elphick, a boyhood Liverpool fan, and Shaun Cooper have joined as first-team coaches while Iraola’s long-time colleague Pablo de la Torre has arrived as assistant coach.

“Pablo is a physical coach but has been with me almost all the years I have been coaching. He is an assistant and we know each other very well.“I was very lucky with Tommy and Shaun when I arrived at Bournemouth.

Some of the players maybe didn’t know I was a player.”One requirement for Iraola and his backroom staff will be to address Liverpool’s problems at set pieces. “We kind of understand the game similarly and they have different roles in the coaching staff, they help with set pieces also.