How Arne Slot's GENIUS System Has Made Liverpool Title Challengers

[@LFCAbadinho]

International break’s over and a liverpool fourfourtwo video ? Good day

[@spresso007]

Bottlers

[@mattinterweb]

What has been brilliant about Slot is all the weaknesses Liverpool fans had identified in the last couple of years under Klopp, he's either addressed or has made it clear it needs to be addressed. He's made us more solid without taking away any of our attacking threat. I loved Klopp, every Liverpool fan did but it was time for a change the old emotional up and at em style could not be sustained. This is a style that can. We're playing smarter now, but still with the same desire.

[@Sallam_2002]

Couldn't agree more 💯💯💯

[@kdjannie3214]

Tbf I don't think we are creating as many chances, but the conversion rate is likely higher. I am enjoying the stability, but I would be lying if I said I didn't miss the old fluidity in the final third (excluding the end of last season of course).

[@mattinterweb]

@@kdjannie3214 personally think we look as fluid as last season, but more solid. Significant accomplishment after only 10 games.

[@distantant]

We don't create as many chances like in the Palace game yet we also dont concede nearly as much and seem to be more clinical. However the lack of chances can easily bite us. NF got one goal against us at Anfield and we couldn't do anything throughout the entire game. The team simply wasn't able to generate goal chances.

[@mattinterweb]

@@distantant he's not going to solve everything in 10 games. First time he had to play a low block and the players were terrible that day guilty of giving the ball away in the final third all the time and squandering situations. The players were largely the same under the last couple of seasons under Klopp - struggling against lowly placed teams organised into a low block. Give it time, Slots on it!

[@play4dc]

I like to think of myself as a Clery Dearie, a fan of clery football theory.

[@Theredbastard2023]

With you 😂

[@Scrimshaw_DuBois42]

The craziest thing about Gravenberch's success this year is that he wouldn't even be at Liverpool if Hendo and Fabinho hadn't ditched us for the Saudi League out of nowhere last summer, and he would've lost his spot this year before he even got a chance if the Zubimendi deal didn't fall apart at the last minute.

[@youngdolo8]

Madness, isn't it? 😂

[@StevenRaddix]

The Lord works in mysterious ways

[@deusexmachina1253]

Dont forget Gravenberch is almost press proof.. he just so good in tight space

[@kenhiew9299]

💯❤

[@DanAllenFilms]

I'm a Clery head.

[@nakiyame2606]

im a celery-head

[@sunlee8532]

clearly clery head

[@PatchworkPS]

I'm a Clery in the woods

[@maccapacca4]

I'm fully a Clery-head

[@GerrardsRightBoot]

I’m a Clery head and so’s my wife!

[@Jordan-el5yz]

Not only some of the best analyses, but you're also just hilarious, Adam. Great video.

[@tynzHappening]

Gravenberch isn't really learning the role. That's the role he played at Ajax when he was so good and Bayern decided to buy him. Slot being in the same league at the time saw his talents, and just making him play more to his strength. Gravenberch even said in an interview that Slot called him over the summer and told him to focus on playing as an 8 and a 6, that it will be where he would be playing.

[@KayZenShoGün]

@@tynzHappening Wow, just like Klopp did with Firmino. The correlation is not exact, but it's there.

[@DarthVader-j2i]

One thing people forget is that Salah and VVD are physical specimens. Both of them were in conversation to win a Ballon d'or at one time. VVD back after that ACL injury took awhile, but he looks as fit as ever now. Wouldn't be surprised if the both of them could still play at the highest level for a further 5 years. And this is where Liverpool FC need ensure they sign them

[@ComradeOgilvy1984]

People talked about his pace, which has dropped off a bit. But what really made VVD a monster is his ridiculously good sense of balance when moving at good speed for such a big man; that allowed him to suddenly change direction and shut down attackers with his full strength. In the season back from the ACL injury, you could see that he slipped several times because that sense of balance was not quite there -- he legs could not quite do it. Right now, his ability to change direction is basically 95% of what it was pre-injury.

[@cheatoh8261]

VVD Maybe but 5 years is a big stretch for Salah. I would like to keep him as a backup/ rotation to whoever our new right winger is though

[@ADHD_Meditation_Club]

@@cheatoh8261 Salah doesn't need to run as much these days, and he's gotten a lot more efficient and changed to more of a provider of chances than a pure goal scorer. He's also, always been ridiculously injury resistant - I could see him have as long a career as Giggs had.

[@Anon97123]

Tbf I don’t actually think Salah was ever in a Ballon D’or convo as brilliant as he’s been. His peak just overlapped when the standard was ridiculously high in the late 2010s. Messi, Lewandowski etc.

[@humphreywolfe]

​@@ADHD_Meditation_Club I couldn't actually remember a time where Salah has gotten injured for a long time. What a specimen

[@willoosthuizen5864]

I'm astounded at how good Grevenberch is this season. Seems like Slot has unlocked how to get the best out of this player. Ditto Gakpo. Ditto Diaz. Ditto Liverpools leaky defence.

[@ComradeOgilvy1984]

On the offensive side, Gravenberch is doing the hard things Slot has asked for and made them look easy. He is just a natural there with no ceiling; he might plausibly blossom to the best to ever to play that position -- time will tell. On the defensive side, Gravenberch is no pacy destroyer. On the plus side, Slot insists on the whole team quickly clogging the central channel in the transition to defense, and that give Gravenberch a degree of cover and makes his decision making much easier. In this context, Ryan is using his attributes to great effect and making a strong defensive contribution.

[@AndresStein]

My default tactical analyst guru. love your work. Doubly so when talking about Liverpool!

[@DarthVader-j2i]

Klopp went for a really risky high line. We had VVD and either Konate/Quansah last season basically at midfield when we were attacking. This lead to many opportunities for the opposition teams if they had a break. Liverpool was the most exciting team to watch under Klopp. Now Slot has reduced that totally. Give Slot a few more years. He will turn that team into something great again.

[@edeh0015]

7:10 Mac Allister's hitmap is a goat

[@letlotlotreasurerakumakoe6019]

Saw that. Swear I saw that

[@aesopsock7447]

Future analyst ballon dor winner this lad

[@Roserytemptation]

Nothing but respect and love for Jurgen. He knew he wasn’t the guy to bring us up again, but he made sure to leave the team in a good place. Slot seems to have effortlessly .. god I hate myself .. slotted himself in. He’s addressed a lot of my concerns (and probably most fans) about our previous style of play and has made Liverpool a defensive unit. The next 4 results for us will be big and I believe we can win all 4

[@ordotectonicus8585]

C'mon Liverpool!!!! Showing Ten Hag how to have a consistent style of play. We'll at least get top 3 this year.

[@nishalsairamgaming7892]

Or who the better bald Dutch manager is 😂😂

[@glaucusyellow]

@@nishalsairamgaming7892 already proved that one mate😂😂😂

[@Seids_89]

Diaz and Konate have also been a big part of the great start to the season, bit surprised the didn’t get a mention

[@sneakybloke]

Once we get a proper Slot 9 next season, we’ll be unstoppable

[@trapdooroodpart]

i'm a cleryhead through and through

[@seamusirl1445]

Happy to be called a ClearyHead 😛

[@sebenfc1982]

Every time FourFourTwo praises a team, things tend to go wrong afterward. I hope they don't jinx my team, Liverpool.

[@belisarius6949]

You're mixing him up with Maqwell

[@timc9299]

I think this is a much better use of Trent's passing range. He's tasked much less about dictating play with higher percentage short passes and more killer balls and key passes. Less kroos/rodri, more modric/kdb.

[@kayleifden]

Almost like a wide playmaker of sorts with the authority to sometimes push in in midfield

[@a_kuma]

Liverpool has been turned from title challengers into title challengers. Amazing.

[@KayZenShoGün]

Slot himself has said we haven't really played any top opponents yet. It's funny that pundits keeping talking about how we've only played easier teams like its some kind of uncovered secret when the Manager himself keeps mentioning it in every press conference 😂

[@zulkifliebinjaffar.zulkifl9337]

Sarcasm in e IQ,SQ,EQ n AQ way for those Pundits with zero low Q😂😂😂🎉🎉🎉YNWA!!!

[@MikeyC92]

As always with Liverpool let's see how we do against the big teams. Playing much better than we thought and Gravenberch has been unreal. Our 4 attackers have produced going forward while VvD and Konate have been rocks at the back.

[@TR4zest]

We have forgotten AC Milan away and yes, United away is still a big game for them and us. We have Chelsea tomorrow. I believe we will well.

[@simonc4077]

Adam has gone early with "Liverpool Title Challengers"

[@billytcat]

I really don't want to be heartbroken this season, Adam.

[@kenhiew9299]

I am very very happy to see them be more selective in pressing, more strategic in pressing , and Arne 's genius plan for Gravenberch play out so well. Also, that they can actually deem to sit back sometimes and again be selective in the chances to attack , which can be so predictable over the course of a whole season under the previous manager. The unrelenting (and no surprise) repetitive heavy metal attack can be effective but this is what I always hoped to see more of in this team and it's come to pass under Arne.

[@Shanksnpaisley1]

There is not a lot of vertical space. Its actually about 16 yards from Palace's front line to back line. The space shown on the Subuteo board is exaggerated (show palace's front line at the half way, which it wasn't in the picture). The space to be found is outside of the two holding mids for Palace, and behind or outside their front 3.

[@kevinmccarthy1992]

Best football analysis channel anywhere this 👏

[@timmy5876]

The best thing for me is that we’re not predictable anymore, we had 2 sort of styles under klopp over the years and both revolved around trent really. In the first half of klopps time trent and robertson would bomb forward all the time and henderson/wijnaldum would cover and we’d score from loads of crosses, in the second half of klopps time we had more creative midfielders so robertson was told to stay back more for trent to invert and when we started a game we rarely changed from minute 1 to 90 apart from the attackers being subbed. Under slot trent has gone back to like the first klopp system and the team as a whole is way less predictable as there’s so many variations to how we can attack, obviously prime klopp is gonna be better than any prime slot but everything fell into place with prime klopp, when something went wrong we struggled

[@letlotlotreasurerakumakoe6019]

Honestly can not utter such, that obviously prime klopp will forever be better than prime slot!?!? Let's give it time. So far so good

[@timmy5876]

@@letlotlotreasurerakumakoe6019 i mean yes realistically he could have a better year than klopp but take klopp finishing on 97 points and a UCL or just the prem with 99 points, unless slot is a centurion or he wins the prem and UCL in one season he won’t have a better season than klopp and i find both of them very unrealistic

[@timmy5876]

@@letlotlotreasurerakumakoe6019 btw i do think we can win a league and/or UCL under slot but to do it in the way klopp did i doubt it

[@patricksmits8174]

The talent and knowledge from Gravenberch and Slot are well known in the Netherlands. Now its time to show the Premier League. Good luck LFC.

[@Mini30fps]

As a Liverpool fan, seeing Klopp leave was pretty sad but happy for a new chapter. I think we still have a lot to overcome so im keeping realistic expectations. Although I think it will be an interesting couple seasons for us and I’m excited.

[@121Dougie]

Macca wasn’t playing in the pivot against palace but he has done against other teams, actually played as the deepest midfielder against united. It’s obviously opposition dependent

[@geraldezike5991]

That United game was a special case as well, I'd say. United planned to target Ryan, but Liverpool tweaked the system a bit and gave Ryan freedom to roam while Macca did the defensive work. You'd see Zirkzee was onto Ryan from the start, but once Ryan started moving forward, he didn't have the answer to that (cos that would mean he'd play deeper than he wanted).

[@Maaaaaazzz]

Cleryheads? Chat are we claiming that title?

[@Caelus.626]

Yea I guess 😂

[@nakiyame2606]

meeeeeeee :3

[@johnferguson4869]

We’re football Clery We’re football mad And the football’s robbed us Of the drop of sense we had

[@librarygary1618]

Chat, is this real?

[@BusterKay916]

The jersey in the back has Tuchel's name with Trent's number, lol

[@librarygary1618]

The 66 is in reference to 1966 when england won the world cup.

[@GunnerAFC]

You explain tactics so well. Best footie channel out there 👏

[@rankobarensic]

Lovely analysis ❤ greetings from The Netherlands 🇳🇱

[@indexpictures]

fourfourtwo is to liverpool tactics what the overlap is to ferguson's dressing room culture

[@Deehydrate]

And funnily enough Gravenberch is a twn Hag invention. He molded him to do that at Ajax. Baffles the mind why he didnt continue playing the way his Ajax team did at United.

[@Chris-zs6fd]

Great video, thanks again Adam

[@kylelacy-andrews9017]

If I had pound for each time I've seen Trent sprinting back towards his goal this season... Well I'd have a lot more money than last season

[@victormawira4real]

There should be a Football Analyst d'Or

[@ry5hr9cg5m]

I have been believeing that LIV and CHE should be better than last year since the session begins. It's sure that changing the head coach can be dangerous because you don't know if his system fits you. But Slot is breaking everyone's suspection.

[@zeddluciano1775]

Imagine we sign Joao Gomes from wolves or bruno g from Newcastle as a szobo alternative then we’d be way more difficult to play through the middle. Not only that, we almost always start strong but last season injuries affected us from Jan-apr

[@TheRealSzillard]

Don't know how you didn't mention Diaz. He's more than doubled his goal involvements compared to last season

[@pacanukeha]

clery-heads up in the house! represent! let's go … drink some coffee. ps love the out-takesque bit at the end

[@Nobodyknowsmeanymore-n4f]

Tuchel 66. Love it!

[@christrowbridge3970]

Great analysis

[@richarddunne9802]

As Slot himself says, judge us after this crazy run of 7 games. By the time we've played City and Real we'll know where we're at!

[@gcoyne8078]

Im a Liverpool fan and most Liverpool fans who watch the games in the PL will tell you that the media have blown this way out of proportion. Yes we're top of the league but we have not dominated games at all and still look very exposed in the middle. Against teams over the next few weeks that are more clinical will really see what we're made of. But i wouldnt be surprised to see us go down 2 or 3 nil by half time with more clinical teams. It takes time.

[@marvyjoe413]

That was just from the Palace game. McAllister is a double pivot in most other games

[@shashurimagrease2890]

Remember lads, the right pronunciation for Gravenberch is - "leave me alone" 😅

[@monke8969]

Been waiting for more slot content

[@Seids_89]

Someone is Cleryly well and truly ready for the international break to be over 😅

[@redjugsba]

That role is number 4.

[@CJSteib]

I've enjoyed it as a red but the schedule has truly been kind thus far

[@chapman35]

Great video.

[@spresso007]

I love how social media and general media makes such bold statement and predictions all the time just after 5-6 games every season 😂😂

[@danieltheisland]

Definitely title contenders, but I'm not getting too excited just yet because the fixtures will only get harder. If they are still top by Christmas then they have to be favourites.

[@AriZBlade]

Adam you gave Palace 6 outfield players…

[@rossm9200]

Mac plays more as the #6 than Grav. I'm not sure why the opposite keeps getting repeated. Don't get me wrong, Mac pushes up too leaving Grav as the deeper player, but on average, Mac definitely is left to be that deeper player more often.

[@victornicholas4729]

Wrong. Grav plays deeper

[@Best_game59]

the heat map says otherwise

[@edeh0015]

I think it's opposition dependent

[@MCMcFee]

That Tuchel England 66 jersey 😙

[@Stitches2390]

CLERYMANIA RUNNING WILD BROTHER

[@teenybopper777]

Looking forward to all the Cleryheads merch coming out in time for xmas

[@KnightMD]

Let's first see how we fare against big teams. Haven't played one yet.

[@Sallam_2002]

Man you're hilarious 😂😂😂❤❤❤

[@Feyenoord-el8ip]

We at Feyenoord still miss him. 😢

[@redeemasuquo]

Can you please give us an indept analysis on macca in this system?

[@nonnayoubuzinnes1669]

Slot will get found out soon, 3 times we have conceded first and it is lucky that number isn't 5, we got lucky with marginal offsides. And those saying the injuries have stopped. Alisson (twice), Chiesa, Tsimikas and Mac Allister all injured. I miss the way we played under Klopp. Fans slagging Klopp off need to remember the state we were in when he arrived, and he had the highest win percentage of any Liverpool manager.

[@adamwali446]

I think you should start making FPL videos. I have used your videos to improve my team

[@fayesouthall6604]

Yep ClearyHead 😊

[@ngjiherhn4034]

12:33 we won all those games Adam 😅

[@tetaball9210]

Been waiting!!!

[@davidtaylor4204]

I can't stop reading your name as Ada McLery.

[@taiteakopyte1504]

Bro is a Tuchel fan. Hope England performs even better

[@THABISO__T-EAZY]

i asked for this thanks

[@chriscarr1301]

Man U had the same gap between the midfielders and the forwards of last season and slated them for it!

[@RB-ei7zs]

Do other leagues big teams. Bayern, PSG, RM, Barca, Napoli etc.

[@mohseinr]

Good channel.

[@badabing8884]

So what you’re saying is that Slot has figured out how to return to the W-M formation.?

[@timmy5876]

I don’t think title challengers is such an outrageous shout like we were top of the league in april last year and we still have all those players, id argue we’ve played better under slot so far this season than we did under klopp cus how many games did we win late last season, also how many goals did we concede. We look way better defensively so far and all our players have either improved or stayed at the same level, City have no Rodri and no natural dm until january and arsenal seem to have a mental block so why not

[@GuyJames]

the only problem is - what happens if Gravenberch gets injured, given that the system largely depends on him now?

[@Ramsayrider]

I hope Mikel Arteta doesn't watch FourFourTwo.

[@RyakkiBaka]

Cleryhead here, I'm going to get back to licking windows.

[@Boxinggavinmason]

How do you do the heat map thing?

[@Catch22er]

Never change, Clery. --Definitely not a Clery-head

[@footballdecipher]

Maybe Trent can defend😄

[@CirclingDuck]

This sounds a lot like Carsley's formation against Greece. What makes Liverpool's work but England's fail?

[@N28-h9m]

Against crystal palace they played slightly different formation than other games

[@wandile.dlamini_]

6:52 LMAO😭😭😭😭😭

[@b8nnytez]

I'll believe we're in the hunt if we're top 2 on New Year's day. Way too early to say it yet.

[@chchch.1212]

You should have waited till the Chelsea match. Arguably the first real test they are going to have.

[@tomfurstyfield]

Cleryheads in the house!

[@liammartin4612]

Last time this tyoe of video was done at an International break, the game after we lost . . . .😐

[@prettyrky]

Ryan Gravenberch is a Paul Pogba from an alternate universe

[@Iron-Bridge]

We're all thinking Clery on this channel. 😁

[@librarygary1618]

Similar to your point about Klopp's system not helping Trent defensively, it would always boil my blood when I'd see people call Trent "lazy" when it was blatantly obvious that he was being told not to worry about busting a gut on defense so he could play as many minutes as humanly possible and be as effective as he can be when he's on the ball. He was basically an ancillary defender, a bonus. Now we're seeing Slot effectively say "give me everything on both sides of the ball and if the game is won by 70' then we can bring on Conor Bradley." I think its a much more sustainable way of implementing Trent and will hopefully do some work to dispel this mind-numbing narrative from ex United players about how he's simply "incapable" of defending.

[@cameronhollidge5090]

Clery Head??? No no no, I'm an AdaManiac