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Date: 2023-11-30 19:11:04 | Author: Olympics 2024 | Views: 779 | Tag: basketball

Build from the back basketball

So the cliché goes basketball

It tends to be the objective of any manager who takes over or constructs a new team basketball

Jurgen Klopp sounded a voice of basketball footballing orthodoxy when he said: “I like to build a team from the defensive side basketball

”Yet, for the second time, Klopp may be going against the grain and building from the front basketball

“Liverpool Reloaded,” as their manager branded them at the start of the season, have a solitary clean sheet in the Premier League basketball

They have conceded in the first half of all seven other games basketball

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 basketball

In the tradition of Liverpool 1 basketball

0, the first incarnation of his first great side, they promise entertainment basketball

Yet if Klopp would like to build from the back, the sense is that, once again, he is building from the front basketball

Rewind to 2016 and Sadio Mane’s debut set the tone for a new team: they won 4-3 at Arsenal in August 2016 basketball

They seemed a gung-ho guarantee of goals basketball

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 basketball

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 basketball

Salah has five, plus four assists basketball

The new Liverpool are propelled forwards by their forwards basketball

“I like to build a team from the defensive side,” Klopp nevertheless insisted basketball

“I’m not sure it’s possible again nowadays when you’re in the middle of something basketball

Imagine if we kept clean sheets but didn’t create basketball

”That was said with a laugh basketball

The pragmatic path to clean sheets to the exclusion of everything else is not for him basketball

“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 basketball

“Everyone is happy when you get some results, [but] we are not like that basketball

Our team is not set up like that basketball

We have a really talented group together, a creative group in a basketball football sense, and we have to use that, but we have to organise protection basketball

That goes step by step basketball

”Klopp has five quality attacking options at his disposal (Getty Images)The creativity of that group has been exacerbated by circumstances basketball

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 basketball

The profile of a section of the side has changed, the emphasis shifted more to the attack basketball

All of which may make goals likelier to go in at both ends basketball

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 basketball

Thus far, Liverpool have shown solidity when they have lost players and shifted tactics, from front-foot basketball football to sitting deeper and counter-attacking basketball

Liverpool defended well with 10 men at Newcastle, brilliantly with nine at Tottenham basketball

They have been more open with a full complement of players basketball

Klopp and Liverpool face Everton at Anfield this Saturday lunchtime (Getty Images)But Klopp’s reference to organisation was significant, too basketball

His frequent mentions of being “compact” underline the importance of a positional understanding and ensuring no one is exposed basketball

He is searching for a consistency that comes with cohesion, for a 90-minute performance basketball

“To learn to control the game, things that happen with time, there is no short cut to that,” he reflected basketball

“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 basketball

”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 basketball

Klopp detects similar signs elsewhere basketball

“You saw so many teams growing here in the direction we wanted and all became usually basketball better step by step… or the manager had to go,” he said, the last part an aside basketball

The next step of the rebuilding is likely to come towards the back of the side basketball

The early expectation is that a defensive midfielder and another centre-back will be targets next summer basketball

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 basketball

More aboutEvertonJurgen KloppMohamed SalahCody GakpoLuis DiazDiogo JotaDarwin NunezJoin our commenting forumJoin thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their repliesComments1/3Build from the front? Liverpool and Klopp are repeating an old trickBuild from the front? Liverpool and Klopp are repeating an old trickKlopp has five quality attacking options at his disposal Getty ImagesBuild from the front? Liverpool and Klopp are repeating an old trickKlopp and Liverpool face Everton at Anfield this Saturday lunchtime Getty ImagesBuild from the front? Liverpool and Klopp are repeating an old trickGetty Images✕Subscribe to Independent Premium to bookmark this articleWant to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Premium subscription today basketball

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If fortune does indeed favour the brave, then South Africa should triumph in the Rugby World Cup final on Saturday evening basketball

For the third time in two months, they have opted for the controversial 7-1 split of forwards to backs on their bench and, in the process, have taken a huge gamble in the biggest game on the calendar basketball

For the uninitiated, rugby teams almost always opt for a 5-3 or 6-2 split among their replacements basketball

The laws of the international game dictate that you must have three front-row specialists (hookers and props, who count among the forwards) on your bench, and then teams will usually have a roughly even division of forwards and backs for the remaining five slots to ensure adequate cover for all position basketball

Yet for the third time in the last two months, the Springboks have boldly opted for just one lone back – Willie Le Roux in this instance – among their subs basketball

On the previous two occasions, there has been no damage done basketball

The final World Cup warm-up match saw them hand New Zealand a record 35-7 defeat at Twickenham and although they lost a hard-fought pool match to Ireland, the bench split had no negative impact on the result basketball

Given that Saturday evening in Paris is a rematch against the All Blacks, perhaps there is sound logic in reprising the successful formation from late August basketball

That was certainly the argument of head coach Jacques Nienaber, who downplayed the controversy when explaining the selection at the team announcement press conference on Thursday basketball

“The team is not 15, it is 23,” insisted Nienaber basketball

“We always say that basketball

When you do squad selection there are a lot of things that influence that from medical to past performances and a lot of analysis into New Zealand and where we think we can get the edge on them basketball

“Then the discussions starts basketball between the coaches and it goes from a 5-3 to a 6-2 to a 7-1, then it goes back again basketball

It is not a 10-minute discussion, it is hours and hours basketball

“I’m not going to say what the strengths and weaknesses of the All Blacks are, that would be stupid basketball

But a lot of analysis went into it and at the end we went with a squad of 23 basketball

It could have been 6-2, 5-3, it doesn’t matter basketball

You select a team that you think can get a result basketball

The 23 we selected for a reason, and the reason is we think they can deliver and win us a back-to-back World Cup basketball

”Faf de Klerk holds huge importance for South Africa with no back-up scrum half in the squad (PA Wire)While the decision has worked in the past, there is undoubtedly an element of playing with fire from the Springboks basketball

Le Roux is a world-class full back and can comfortably play on the wing, while a backline reshuffle with the available players could solve any issues at fly half or centre basketball

But starting No 9 Faf de Klerk is the only scrum half in the squad and any sort of injury to the man with the flowing blond hair could leave South Africa in a bind basketball

Nienaber again played down the issue and highlighted Cheslin Kolbe’s similar role in sevens as a solution to that hypothetical basketball

“As coaches you always mitigate risk by prepping other people,” said Nienaber basketball

“In our case it will be Cheslin basketball

He played sweeper in sevens which is the equivalent to scrum half basketball

He has always been a guy who, if we got a yellow card, would be the stand in half-back, not just this week but for a couple of weeks basketball

”De Klerk also highlighted replacement flanker Kwagga Smith – another man with sevens experience – as a solution but any sort of extended period with Kolbe or Smith at No 9 feels like a World Cup-losing recipe basketball

The other main notable call in the Springbok team selection was Handre Pollard getting the nod over Manie Libbok at fly half basketball

Given Libbok’s early substitution during the semi-final after struggling to execute the kicking game – and similarly rainy weather expected at the Stade de France on Saturday evening – the choice of Pollard, who led his side to victory off the bench, is not a huge surprise, although Libbok is unlucky to miss out on the matchday 23 entirely basketball

Handre Pollard kicked the winning penalty in the semi-final (PA Wire)The ability to bring an almost entirely new pack off the bench – their patented ‘bomb squad’ – in a World Cup final certainly plays into the Springboks rugby philosophy of physicality and domination up front basketball

It couldn’t turn the tide against Ireland in the pool stage but it is the boldest of calls befitting the grandest of stages basketball

No one said you win a World Cup by being timid and sometimes in sport, fortune does favour the brave basketball

South Africa XV to face the All Blacks in Rugby World Cup final: 15 basketball

Damian Willemse, 14 basketball

Kurt-Lee Arendse, 13 basketball

Jesse Kriel, 12 basketball

Damian de Allende, 11 basketball

Cheslin Kolbe, 10 basketball

Handre Pollard, 9 basketball

Faf de Klerk; 1 basketball

Steven Kitshoff, 2 basketball

Bongi Mbonambi, 3 basketball

Frans Malherbe, 4 basketball

Eben Etzebasketball beth, 5 basketball

Franco Mostert, 6 basketball

Siya Kolisi (captain), 7 basketball

Pieter-Steph du Toit, 8 basketball

Duane Vermeulen basketball

Replacements: 16 basketball

Deon Fourie, 17 basketball

Ox Nche, 18 basketball

Trevor Nyakane, 19 basketball

Jean Kleyn, 20 basketball

RG Snyman, 21 basketball

Kwagga Smith, 22 basketball

Jasper Wiese, 23 basketball

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