Slot needed to change things up, so he pushed right-back Trent Alexander-Arnold into central midfield more and more in the second half to give Liverpool a spare player in that segment.
He also dropped his two running central midfielders in front of Ryan Gravenberch, Curtis Jones and Alexis Mac Allister, deeper to give Liverpool more options when playing out from the back. The same thing happened when Dominik Szoboszlai replaced Mac Allister for the general partial week as well.
In the same past, when Gabriel was injured, Arsenal adjusted and dropped rather than continuing to press, and it seemed like they were trying to provide protection for his head rather than looking to score more goals.
That changed the mood of the game, but Liverpool still had to be careful with the Gunner’s warning on the counter, and tried to balance that by pushing for an equaliser.
Against the so-called lesser teams, you will pass up one-on-one situations in your backline, but Arsenal’s players in the top positions are some of the best in the world and, in my opinion, are capable of beating people very simple. as we noted with Saka’s purpose.
With all that in mind, Liverpool’s plan was to aim to ensure they kept the ball for longer and hope that Arsenal’s players moved to allow them opportunities, without resignation showing in the same past.
But, once again, you travel back to the fact that the Gunners are also a defensively controlling team. Already this season we have discovered how suitable their focal point is, against Manchester Town with 10 men, for example, and that is why they do not often make the kind of mistakes that let the opposition in.
In the event that Liverpool had a lot of ownership after the split (63%), they didn’t necessarily have a lot in bad fields. A lot of it was in the middle of the pitch, where Arsenal were camped, and they were happy for Liverpool to play with them and travel back and forth.
After all, Arsenal only made themselves noticeable on a few occasions, and one of them was in anticipation of Liverpool making it 2-2.
