Dominik Szoboszlai

[rudedog]

Or 3 - 0

[Mark79]

Mo or M9...for Salah...?

Salah is no.11 though.

It’s just a malformed 3-0 for the score line.

[greenturnip]

Mo or M9...for Salah...?

[DerKrampus]

He’s such a ****house as well

https://twitter.com/lfctransferroom/...44175161131062

39?

[Buzzo]

He’s such a ****house as well

[ame]https://twitter.com/lfctransferroom/status/1752844175161131062[/ame]

[Buzzo]

I don’t think we’ve had a midfielder score a goal like that since Gini left.

[Doc_Piptorious]

Well I would be getting worried if y'all started to agree with me. Would mean that y'all became god damned sexual Tyrannosauruses, just like me.

[SB]

You chancer. Like anyone ever agrees with me.

[Doc_Piptorious]

But I was agreeing with Jaco... so its all his fault

You chancer. Like you ever agree with me.

[Charly]

I was responding to Charly who had said we should play Trent in midfield and ditch the hybrid/inverted role

But I was agreeing with Jaco... so its all his fault

[Doc_Piptorious]

I was responding to Charly who had said we should play Trent in midfield and ditch the hybrid/inverted role

Soz Zod.




General. Would you care to step outside?

[rudedog]

It is not about whose position TAA is taking because he is playing in his own position which now is more or less a "free" role as in he is free to go with the play and to try and create overloads in doing so.

It is about the ground being covered by the player or players tasked to fill in the spaces created by the set up we are using.

TAA does not come into it other than when he is on the pitch he is in the "free" role, if he was injured in the morning we could play sopmeone else in that same role and there still would be players needed to cover.

I was commenting on how the new set up, regardless of who is in the playmaker role, is adding extra workloads to certain positions and as such we are seeing more injuries and/or drop offs in form in those positions.

LB, RCB and RCM are the three positions who are being tasked to cover and this season we are having a higher attrition rate in terms of injuries across those positions.


Not sure if we need to add some younger more energetic players to some of those roles or if we need to rotate more often in some of them to prevent a burn out or injury but the box set up does appear to be far more labour intensive for the players in the covering roles

I was responding to Charly who had said we should play Trent in midfield and ditch the hybrid/inverted role

[Doc_Piptorious]

Whose place is Trent taking in midfield in that scenario then? He doesn’t have the defensive instincts to play as the 6. That leaves the two 8s, so are we going to drop Dom to play him as the right sided 8? Or drop Curtis so we can shoehorn him into the left side 8? Or maybe we can just play a completely different formation?

I don’t actually understand what all the fuss is about Trent playing in this hybrid/inverted role as he’s always played a hybrid role - his hybrid role is now just as RB/CDM rather than RB/winger. This means he can still contribute to the attack but there is less chance of him being exposed and caught miles of position and then having to sprint the full length of the pitch every time we lose possession. He can also (and does) get down the wing at times to mix things up.

We are currently top of the league and have the best defensive record out of all the teams - we’d still be unbeaten if it wasn’t for the worst officiating mistake ever. We’ve also scored the second highest amount of goals. Must be a fluke though as everyone knows playing Trent in the hybrid role is blunting our attacks whilst making us ****e in defence

With regard to Dom, I don’t think his recent dip in form is down to being over played as his off the ball work has still been outstanding, its just when he’s on the ball that’s the issue. If it was a fitness/stamina thing, you’d think there would be a drop off in his running (which there hasn’t been).

Imagine what we are going to like when this team fully clicks into gear though

It is not about whose position TAA is taking because he is playing in his own position which now is more or less a "free" role as in he is free to go with the play and to try and create overloads in doing so.

It is about the ground being covered by the player or players tasked to fill in the spaces created by the set up we are using.

TAA does not come into it other than when he is on the pitch he is in the "free" role, if he was injured in the morning we could play sopmeone else in that same role and there still would be players needed to cover.

I was commenting on how the new set up, regardless of who is in the playmaker role, is adding extra workloads to certain positions and as such we are seeing more injuries and/or drop offs in form in those positions.

LB, RCB and RCM are the three positions who are being tasked to cover and this season we are having a higher attrition rate in terms of injuries across those positions.


Not sure if we need to add some younger more energetic players to some of those roles or if we need to rotate more often in some of them to prevent a burn out or injury but the box set up does appear to be far more labour intensive for the players in the covering roles

[RedReet]

Whose place is Trent taking in midfield in that scenario then? He doesn’t have the defensive instincts to play as the 6. That leaves the two 8s, so are we going to drop Dom to play him as the right sided 8? Or drop Curtis so we can shoehorn him into the left side 8? Or maybe we can just play a completely different formation?

I don’t actually understand what all the fuss is about Trent playing in this hybrid/inverted role as he’s always played a hybrid role - his hybrid role is now just as RB/CDM rather than RB/winger. This means he can still contribute to the attack but there is less chance of him being exposed and caught miles of position and then having to sprint the full length of the pitch every time we lose possession. He can also (and does) get down the wing at times to mix things up.

We are currently top of the league and have the best defensive record out of all the teams - we’d still be unbeaten if it wasn’t for the worst officiating mistake ever. We’ve also scored the second highest amount of goals. Must be a fluke though as everyone knows playing Trent in the hybrid role is blunting our attacks whilst making us ****e in defence

With regard to Dom, I don’t think his recent dip in form is down to being over played as his off the ball work has still been outstanding, its just when he’s on the ball that’s the issue. If it was a fitness/stamina thing, you’d think there would be a drop off in his running (which there hasn’t been).

Imagine what we are going to like when this team fully clicks into gear though

Let's not also forget this run extended back to last season. We had 5th, 6th, 7th best team on paper according to some going into this season. The tactics, as much as anything has helped elevate them into the current best team. It's hard to fully fathom this obsession with changing it at every opportunity. Certain key players have clearly also helped, but when it's not broke...

[RedReet]

Think we have done to him what we did earlier in the season to Robertson.


When Robertson was fit and covering LB and LCB to accommodate the box set up, Szobo was pretty much just playing RCM and shuttling up and down in that role and his heat maps backed that.


But since Robertson has been out, Szobo's heat maps show that he seems to have been the one tasked with dropping deeper to cover when TAA roams so he has been going between RCM, RM and a deeper CM/DM spot.

As with Robertson I think we are seeing what it looks like when a high stamina guy begins to push his limits a bit too much.

Do these adjustments result in more distance covered through Jaco? Clearly RCB has a lot more strain put on him, but in Robbo's case, I'd have assumed he's covering much less distance now than he used to up and down the wing? Szobo could well be be covering more ground on paper, but would he be doing the same number of sprints when covering as opposed to attacking?

He could well be, I honestly don't know, but as with most things I'm sure there are numerous contributing factors. A huge one I'm guessing is the condensed December schedule which most new players to PL aren't used to, especially those used to a proper winter break. Someone on here (Mark/Pepe? ) I think highlighted that Szobo has already nearly reached his record number of games in a season, so playing so many back to back I'm sure also hasn't helped.