Have Liverpool lost 'chaotic' edge that made them so feared?

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This season however Liverpool have not had the same luck with injuries as they did last season. We have to address that."As positive as Slot's changes were in his first season, there is a possibility that they were so effective because they were stacked upon the physical base that Klopp had built through an approach that might be considered too strenuous on its own.For a team to succeed, tactics and the skillset of the squad have to be considered together.

Simply put, a team's style has to suit their players.Liverpool's squad overhaul in the summer should have resulted in an improvement on the success of last season. Alongside the sales of Darwin Nunez and Luis Diaz, Liverpool are without three attackers who could press well, often winning the ball high, even if they did not engage as often under Slot, as they did under Klopp.This season Liverpool's forward line has not been able to minimise the potential flaws of Slot's press - often slower to apply pressure, failing to cut out easy passing lanes and not back-pressing to tackle opposition midfielders.Florian Wirtz's 86.7 pressures per 90 minutes this season are similar the numbers Jota (104.1) and Nunez (93.6) boasted last season but the likes of Hugo Ekitike (73.3), Alexander Isak (70.0) and an ageing Mohamed Salah are different types of players.In an interview with Gary Neville, Alexander-Arnold spoke about his time at Liverpool, tying all of these ideas together nicely: "The whole game is based on counter-press.

"We weren't told to lose it but it's not a bad thing to lose it because [the opponents] then open their shape up, they counter-attack, we win it back quick and that's when we kill them. They looked sharp, had few injuries, and took their time on the ball more than they did under Klopp.