The TRUTH About Trent vs Manchester City.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 มิ.ย. 2024
- In this video, James Allcott analyses Manchester City v Liverpool and looks into the good and bad of Trent Alexander-Arnold.
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0:00 The Good and Bad of Trent Alexander-Arnold
0:47 Analysing Liverpool's Attack v Man City.
4:22 Trent's Problems vs Manchester City
8:28 How Bernardo Silva Caused Problems For Liverpool!
11:21 Liverpool and Trent's Defensive Problems
18:46 The BRILLIANCE of Trent Alexander-Arnold!lll
22:41 Liverpool's KEY Missing Piece...
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I've seen a lot of people acting like Trent was getting cooked all game by Doku and I just did not see that. Yeah he got beat for pace a few times, Doku is MUCH faster than Trent, but I dont think he defended badly. I honestly thought it was a pretty good performance defensively, and the goal was obviously excellent.
I suggest you watch the match back. This is something football fans do especially when it comes to teams they support. They are so high on emotion after the match that they completely disregard the context of the match. Go. Watch the match back and if you still feel the same the fair enough
It was a good team defensive performance every time Trent fucked up rest of liverpool would cover his mistakes
@@KM-dd1cr I remember the majority of his duels against doku just resulting in doku running around aimlessly to be honest.
I think one concrete chance came from it aside from the goal, and the goal wasn’t really his fault (Matip absolutely should’ve checked his shoulder and got closer to haaland)
He was really good in the air today too, and made a fair few recoveries.
I do get your point absolutely, but I also think the general perception of Trent tends to lead people into overplaying his defensive difficulties sometimes. Yes, he has a lot of games where he’s awful defensively, I just don’t think today was one of those.
@@Mr.PlotTwist I’m not saying it was a 10/10. Course it’s not his best performance in our shirt he’s been class for years now, but he was our best player today
He got cooked a lot but like you said there wasn’t much he could have done differently
It’s kind of ridiculous what people expect Trent to do. It’s like if however good a winger is if he doesn’t stop every attack then he’s had a terrible game. People only talk about the times a player gets past him and ignore all the times he defends well. It’s such a boring conversation tbh and I don’t think he will ever win the majority of people over, they’ve already made up their mind so look for the moments that support their viewpoint. He’s doing multiple jobs on the pitch, give the guy a break. Considering he was supposedly being shown up by Doku he hardly created a chance
It's fucking unbelievable
I know right, this analysis is weird. Trent got thrashed apparently by a player who didn't have or create a single decent chance. Too many talking heads in this game now, having to create talking points where there are none.
@@Charlie_Sesfound it funny as well when k was watching, Gary Neville gave Trent MOTM but the announcer in the Ethihad gave it to Doku. And when you weigh it pound for pound, Trent had more impact on the game
These days the average football watcher don't understand how tactically influenced these games are. For anyone who's actually played football and understanding tactics and formation know that Trent had a very solid game.
@@Charlie_Sesfacts
Doku got past Trent, but was only getting past Trent into dead-end spaces, hence why he had no end product. Trent was defending intelligently
Thanks for seeing exactly what the rest of us was seeing! All that dribbling for nothing!
i wouldn't say there was no end product. alvarez shoulda at least hit that one shot on target, and on another day one of those balls bounces to haaland and he scores
@@muchoreasa he was creating half chances
Lol. If man City had capitalized off the 3 crosses Doku was able to get off after beating your right side, you wouldn't be coping this for Trent
@@FormerPessitheRobberfan Lol if team scored more than team, team would have won.
They didn't capitalise. trent had a good game and deserved the MOTM award.
I felt like Trent’s job wasn’t to never get dribbled past but rather direct Doku. You wanna go to the outside? Trent guides him to the line and either blocks the cross or lets him dribble into the CBs, in this case Matip. Wanna go inside? Trent hands him off to the midfielder or Salah helping cover. The plan was never to let Trent go 1v1 cause… you know, duh. It was more of a team defensive effort and less so a 1 on 1. So the stats might show Trent got dribbled past but it was more like Trent was just there to force Doku to dribble into other people, make him commit where Liverpool had numbers to back him up. If you watch the game Doku did a lot of dribbling but never really had any end product or looked too dangerous. Overall, good game plan from Liverpool and obviously both Trent and Doku are great players.
Completely agree the only person who dribbled him and actually moved into an advantageous position was ake. All doku's dribbles made it difficult for an end product similar to someone like traore.
Well said, I noticed that too. Doku is great at beating his man and the best way to counter him is precisely this, direct him to trap him into the second defending player or the boundary.
Finally, someone who actually knows ball ffs
This is what people don’t get. I mean if you don’t understand the game that’s what you’ll say and I don’t expect anything from twitter merchants(which I’m part of but I actually try not to follow the crowd lol)
Could easily have had 3 assists
I genuinely thought Trent had a good game, up against one of the most dangerous wingers in the league.
Because he did. He and MacAllister were the best players for Liverpool
@@jonnyvelocity Tsimikas was better defensively. Phoden and alvarez rarely had a game down the right flank.
@@kk7324so true man i was scared tsimi was going to get cooked but he was really solid
@@luMz0. City were so busy attacking TAA, they forgot about Tsimikas!
@@kk7324thats only really because city didnt direct any attacks that way
I honestly couldn’t care less about what people on the internet are saying, I’m so proud of Trent’s defensive performance. All you had to do was listen to the commentators to understand how well he played and I did not see a SINGLE downside from today’s performance. His defensive awareness was much much improved and his ability to see the ball out of play, even against Haaland, and make goal saving interceptions is newfound and very welcome. He is never going to compete 1v1 with Jeremy Doku, but he mostly rendered him useless and his performance on the ball doesn’t need mentioning at this point because it’s out of this world. But speaking solely on defending, it was not only Trent’s best performance in a Liverpool shirt, but also Matip and Tsimikas’, and Van Dijk was back to his 2019 best. Take away Alisson’s mistakes and the forward line’s complete inability to create meaningful chances, and Liverpool could’ve won 5-0. That defence can win the league this year, it will just need a monumental effort from the midfield and attack in order to make that happen. I’ve never taken more confidence out of a Liverpool result in my life
I think it’s unfair to Trent when a lot of his best defensive work isn’t highlighted when winning the ball before it gets to 1v1 defending, he won possession and intercepted more than any player on the pitch
I’m glad to see all the support for Trent in the comments cuz yeah anyone who watched could see him getting “dribbled past” was just him pushing Doku into a position he wanted him to be in, either a tight angle wide or a congested center of the pitch. I think Matip got beaten once by Doku but I thought, to our credit, Doku looked a bit like a faster ASM. Great dribbling and “threatening” but missing any end product, mostly just running at players till he got to a difficult position. If he had gotten more assists or key passes or XA it’d be another story but he really didn’t see that much as far as opportunity. Ake dribbled past Trent into dangerous positions more than Doku💀
Doku holding that width and Silva pressing like he did made it difficult for Trent yet he still had a solid game i thought. People just like to criticise him and that celebration is everything🤫
He was the best player on the pitch doing the hardest job.
doku actually did very little today m ngl trent did well against him and when he got beat it was just becuase doku is really fast
I can't help thinking that if Trent was Spanish, or Italian, or French, his national media would be a lot more supportive of him. Watched the game today with my dad, the very definition of a neutral - he loves football but has absolutely no allegiance to any Premier League team. After about half an hour, he pointed out that every time Trent did something competently in defence - which he often does - it goes completely unremarked on, but every time he's beaten, or every time he makes anything approaching a mistake, it gets immediately highlighted. Trent is not a great defender, but neither is he anything like as poor as he's often made out to be.
Totally agree! Has more assists than anyone in that stadium yday apart from kdb in the stands😂 and he's apparently a shit RB lol he's also got the most assists in the England squad!? So conclusion.. give the lad the ball and get him closer to goal! He's bordering on world class now if he keeps creating he'll have 100+assists by the end of his career!
I think somewhere in the English psyche we still think full-backs should be like Stuart Pearce. Italy/France/Spain would definitely appreciate Trent for what he's brilliant at instead of obsessing over the stuff he's less good at.
@@snazzyethel Totally agree! Trent could walk into Madrid's, Barca's, any Italian team, Munich and god forbid man city and they'd get the very best out his attributes passing and vision and goal creation and goals!
There is a bias about. Trent was stats wise very good. Skinned for pace here and there but so was Recce James. Yet James didnt get the same said about him.
Because he can actually defend, when he isn't in the rehab centre!
Trent was clever, he made Doku turn inside most of the time, or when Doku went outside he was led to nowhere, what did he create??? Nothing
@@michaelrowell7798But can he do what TAA does going forward? Trent has medals to back it up too 🤫
@michaelrowell7798 if he can defend how come he has so many reds or get beat so many times remember they just played chelsea
Trent defended well but was under pressure. James actually had Doku in his pocket all game.
Don’t think Doku necessarily “cooked” Trent like most people are making it out to be. Most of the time he got past Trent he wasn’t really dangerous in anyway because he was shown to the byline or on the outside which forced him to cross the ball on his left foot(which you touched on) which I think Trent really did a good job on. And most of the time even Trent recovered when doku got past him. Me personally I think the game plan for doku was for Trent to just show him to the outside and not let him come inside which he didn’t come inside sometimes but wasn’t really threatening because he didn’t take no shots which baffled me a bit(that’s one thing he can improve on in his game). In general I think Trent did pretty well.
As a Liverpool fan, this is the first time i've watched a James Allcott video for 2 years, and my god he's leveled up his videos. We're seeing a completely different analysis of the game that Sky showed. I'm all for it!
you've been missing out!
He’s bias tho, spent the whole video sucking off Man City
People are really scrutinising Trent’s defensive performance which is not fair cos all that happened with doku was that he beat him for pace or Trent was having to monitor both bernardo and doku but he did well. I was proud of his performance. I genuinely think that Trent gets overly scapegoated to be a bad defender when he has improved a lot this season. He didn’t get cooked by doku that much. His positioning is the thing he has to work on more. But overall he had a decent defensive performance and a great attacking display
Doku should've been motm. Easily the best player on the pitch
@@hyywe240disagree bernardo was so much better, doku was dancing aimlessly and had bad end product
@@hyywe240matip even stopped him so stop
@@hyywe240 Silva much better.
@markxcolle15 matip got rinsed a few times by doku mate you should've seen it 😂
Also first thing about Nunez not holding up the ball once, a) not true he did hold up the ball at least once in the first half but b) that was partially because every out ball in the first half went to Salah for some reason? We kept hitting long balls to Salah v Ake instead of Nunez to hold up and it was perplexing and stopped second half lolol
Feel like a proper 6 would make a huge difference and make all the difference
people mistake the fact he isn't worldclass at defending and just take it for being trash, Trent is a very good defender, but not worldclass, a lot of fullbacks aren't (especially modern fullbacks). but Trent is NOT a bad defender and he never gets slack
Surprised you didn’t touch on how easy Gravenbech cut through the city midfield on several occasions.
I know this is such a Liverpool fan thing to say! But isn’t it crazy that we’re criticising Liverpool in a game away at the etihad? Like for me at the start of the season it was unthinkable that we could go toe to toe with Man City!
All valid criticisms and we’ve got a long way to go but I am so proud of my team for that performance and I love that the narrative is looking at how we could’ve won rather than just oh Liverpool got thrashed, that was expected
No mention of the city players who were “injured” for the international break but that could train and play a full game. That will have made a huge difference on the field
He defended well, I think a comment said it best, want to go outside, fine, the cross will be cut out, want to go inside fine, there's a midfielder waiting, want to go back, fine, there's Salah. Trent along with Maguire are scrutinised so much compared to other defenders. This is a player that's played in multiple CL finals and been in a side that's hit 90+ points 3 times. The whole he can't defend shit from the pundits is getting tiring, it's why they aren't coaches or are failed coaches.
There were about 5 poor players for the Haaland goal. If one of them had done their job, it wouldn’t have happened.
I just find it absurd that people think Trent had an awful game despite scoring because he didn't pocket Doku like I think he achieved what he was trying to do and you cant expect him to shut down one of the most explosive wingers in the prem atm like come on context is important.
Doku will give any right back in the world the hardest game they have had in the end did doku score or assist? Then the fact city scored isn’t really on Trent is it?
It's basically it.
Ake literally skipped passed Trent like he wasn't there for the goal. Doku created chances that weren't finished by haaland and Alvarez. That doesn't change the fact that Trent was getting consistently cooked all game
Bernardo silva is very underrated. He quietly goes about and does his job and lets the rest of them get all the accolades
He isn’t underrated
Not underrated he's arguably and consistently considered one of the best PL footballer of his generation
He's incredible
@@shekel2356not by a ton of casuals but anyone who watches knows how good he is
@@shekel2356I’ve literally never heard his name brought up before. They all talk about KDB and forget about silva.
The other aspect of Trent’s game, which against City he didn’t have an opportunity to show this time around but will again in the future, is his unimaginable passing range
Hey Jim, awesome video as always and loveing the updated set up with the alternate angle with the tactics board! Also honoured to feature as well! 😊 Only Forwards!! 👈😄👉🐌
I’ve been very critical of Trent recently but I thought he did well w Doku. He knew not to go tight w him and he basc backed off him a little to show him a side and he contained Doku quite well. I saw stretches of old Trent in this game.
I think he did well. Sure, he got dribbled past by one of the best dribblers in the world atm but otherwise, he was solid. Not “cooked” as some people went on about. Yes, he needed help but that was always going to be the case. Doku created almost nothing. His xG and xA was super super low.
Trent is world class
Lol
At what..pinging balls into the box yes. Defensively, you are joking right?
I think it’s a bit like having David Beckham at right back. Fantastic right foot of course, but I wouldn’t fancy him as my right back. He would’ve been great back in the day as a 4-4-2 right mid, but now it’s either right back or centre midfield. As he’s used to playing on the right flank he’s used to only needing to look one way and therefore has more time on the ball. From what I’ve seen when he’s played in centre midfield he hasn’t got the footballing brain and positional awareness to look all around and play with little time as you need to in that position. I think he’s a bit stuck in that regard
I think this is a case where you need to look at the data in context. Trent's aim wasn't to avoid being dribbled past, it was to direct Doku to areas where he couldn't do very much. It worked - Doku’s xA: 0.06 & xG: 0.04. Trent did his job defensively and scored a really good goal.
Great vid as always James! Here’s my quick take on VVD on the Haaland goal:
If you watch the goal back you can see that as Ake gets the ball from Alisson, Mac Allister decide to push up in order to take out the potential pass to Rodri. He does this because he believes Szobo and TAA will stop Ake from advancing into the space ahead. What that does is leave a massive space between VVD and Mac Allister for Alvarez to be in, and when Ake beats his men; that space becomes very evident. VVD then has to stay in his position, not pushing out towards Haaland, because if he does; he’ll open up for Alvarez to recieve the ball in the middle. If that happens, Tsimikas will push into the space VVD leaves and that will leave Foden with all the time in the world at the back post.
So summary: I believe Szobo and TAA has to do more, Mac Allister made a wrong calculation of that situation, leaving VVD with the «choice» of either gambling that Haaland can’t get the goal from that position (which he probably wouldn’t have if Alisson was playing at his best) rather than the space being open behind him and the ball being played to Foden ultimately in a great goalscoring position. I’d therefore say that Szobo, TAA, Mac Allister and Alisson have all the blame for that goal.
He can’t be relied upon for dealing with quick wingers but I'm already tired of people saying Doku cooked Trent. He beat him once or twice but he kept having to cross or go round the edge of the box because the defence kept him at bay for the most part. Last season I watched Trent get turned completely inside out last by the likes of Napoli, Brighton and Real Madrid but today wasn’t one of those days for him.
The truth is this. TAA did EXACTLY what he needed to do. Let Doku pass him on his weak foot and don’t let him cut back on his right. By doing that he held Doku to ZERO goals, assists, shots on target or chances created (when taking on TAA). Who TF cares if Doku dribbled pass TAA several times. It lead to nothing…. Yes TAA isn’t a great defender but this entire narrative that he is a horrible defender who can’t do the basics as a RB is just nonsense. Never once in his entire career at LFC has Klopp asked him to be an actual traditional RB. He was never a RB. He was a midfielder at the academy. So many idiots will say the same BS things “he’s a RB his primary job is to defend” no it fucking isn’t! If you knew actual football (talking about idiots who talk shit not James) you would understand tactics, systems, positioning, etc. and really understand what TAA position is all about….
I think that this kind of analysis benefits City: it's the sort of analysis that Pep does as a manager. I don't think it's wrong, but, at the end of the day, you have to look at the scoreboard. You have to look at the quality of chances created, which I think was pretty even by the end of it. Liverpool managed to keep City's production very low. The analysts will say Liverpool get away with it.
James - Reece James and Kyle Walker both concede 4 in the previous round of games. Last weekend Reece James had an absolute stinker and Walker conceded the same amount of goals as Trent. Will you be doing a critique of their defensive and overall games or does this just continue the theme of singling out Trent for scrutiny not applied to others?
What you've basically explained is due to doku's and Silva's positions, Trent is constantly defending a 2 on one, due to Liverpool's pressing style in the midfield, leaving him left at a 2 v 1 for most of the game whilst trying to get into the middle of the pitch and while trying to create chances, no other player can do that, like you say it must be so mentally taxing and he must be thinking so much, in the past Liverpool had Henderson to drop into the space Trent leaves behind so the space that allowed city to score wouldn't be there, but szobo is a different player, so Trent is literally trying to do 3 jobs at once, and to do it against city of all teams is outstanding, but he still gets criticism for defending intelligently, if he makes one mistake that's all he is remembered for, every player makes mistakes but no matter how well Trent plays he could score 8 goals but make one mistake and the only thing that people will talk about is the mistake
I think liverpool should rather skip him in buildup and try to find him one action later, at least while they drill him on it in training would help.
Yep dont feel confident in his build up play. Vvd does much better
You can tell a casual fan by them saying Trent can’t defend or doku destroyed Trent.
Attackers have the advantage especially 1v1 so it’s normal for them to dribble past a full back
One bad kick from probably the best keeper in the world was the cause of the city goal, it happens , mistakes will always happen in football , thats why we love watching footy every week
Doku spent a lot of time running around and producing a whole lot of nothing, which in itself is a credit to Trent and our defence. We conceded one poorly defended goal against one of the best attacking teams ever which is rather good for a team that apparently has a shocking defence according to every pundit
Look forward to the 30 minutes on Reece James from the weekend. Lord have mercy
i love how the general consensus is that alisson had a howler, at the end of the day he conceded 1 goal as a keeper which he wasn’t expected to save, most keepers wouldn’t of got near it but cus of his positioning he got a finger to it but it wasn’t enough. Even if u say he is to blame for the goal (which he wasn’t) the save from foden where he drilled it bottom right was redeemed it. After that there was the question of his distribution and the corners but did they lead to a goal? no
Doku had the whole Liverpool team on toast… not just Trent. But he didn’t have any end product.
Trent was immense.
Fairly surprised about the eulogy of Man City here considering they bottled the game
"I think you can give him a break" after 22 mins of bashing trent and his positioning hahaha
That's crazy that you can say liverpools goal was lucky when it came from a possession play but a goalkeeping mistake is isn't luck and just down to haalands brilliance. I usually really like your analysis but I feel you missed the mark on this one a little
Nunez hold up play was really good in the game
17:36 think van Djik was looking also at Alvarez run, playing both half-half. Yet Halland stood still and Matip vacated the passing lane.
indeed, Sobo & Trent couldn't contain Ake was criminal.
TAA is the new Ozil. We'll criticize and overanalyze till he retires; then we'll cry that they don't make artists like him anymore once he does.
silva was brilliant and a fantastic player
great video!
Doku didn't do shit in this game, Trent managed him really well, defending with great intelligence. This was actually NOT a good game to analyze the belabored "Trent can't defend" trope (one of the stupidest tropes in English football). Poor from you James.
Glad you mentioned Trent's issues in midfield. It's painfully obvious when he plays for England - he's actually in the way more often than not and rarely asking for the ball with a body position that would allow him to do anything other than give it back to the centre back straight away. That coupled with walking around with no movement/intensity.
Regarding Trents awareness of if there is an opponent on his left or right shoulder,makes me think back to an interview from one of Liverpool's 80s legends(sorry I can't remember who).He said that the players behind would take resposibility in shouting to their team mate ahead of them who was on the ball"Left shoulder!"or "Right shoulder!"This would allow the player to know where to dribble or pass.So communication is also key in these situations.
Why would you want a Chelsea game where you can very easily be down 3:0 if City take their chances? If I was serious about a possible title charge I‘d go for a point every day of the week and that‘s what it seems Klopp thought too. Especially with a lot of players coming back from int duty.
We should scrap 12:30 kick offs, especially after an international break. The atmosphere is always sooo awful, the crowd is never up for it and it’s so lethargic for the players. For every one entertaining game at 12:30, there’s 30 that are sooo boring.
While I agree with you, try telling that to BT and they will tell you to *^ss off! They aren't going to spend all that money on a broadcast deals without controlling the games they want to televise. Not going to change at present.
Bro, I love all of this guy's insights except for all things Liverpool. Am I biased or is he?
Not a Liverpool fan, but I think Trent had a decent game defensively. Other than the goal, I agree though, he could have done more going forward.
if it's wasn't for Haaland miss and Alvarez miss, Doku should have had 2 assists, city should have won. TAA only meaningful contribution was the goal, great goal it was.
i think that vandijk was also trying to cover Alvarez who was free and running through the middle towards the post, case if he run towards Haaland earlier, Alvarez would've had an open shot in goal.
I expect City to go into a higher gear when KDB returns. It will be interesting to see if Liverpool can find a similar gear and whether it will require another, new 6 for them to do so...
Alisson was over played… played 3 intense top level game within 6 days and flew around the world. Ridiculous… even Ederson/Man C pulled out “injured” to skip those games.
The reason VVD reacted like that was because they scored in the exact fashion they were working to prevent. Just before the international break, Haaland had shown a freakish level of anticipation and first touch with a super intelligent 1-touch bang goal in the same channel zone he scored vs Liverpool, all in stride, impressive. Any other striker would have taken at least 2, possibly even penetrated with a dribble -- but Haaland is dribbling before he even receives the ball, so....
Klopp chooses Matip over Konate specifically because he stays central and doesn't use his pace to cover out wide like Konate tends to frequently, so if you played Konate, at any given time Haaland could be in a central area with multiple touches to shoot; guaranteed goals. So, Klopp played Matip, knowing that he only wanders from position when on the ball and only does so centrally, so at any given time when the defence is set, either VVD or Matip will be within 1 touch of Haaland and able to provide some cover for his quickfire accuracy. It's all going well. Everyone is working hard, doing their job, and it seems to be working -- until of course...
Allison spoons up a horrible backspinner that caught the wind, everyone's looking up figuring out the landing spot, lands a bit unexpectedly near Liverpool's half giving the defence no time to set as Ake quickly reads, skins, and finds Haaland with room for a touche and --- *bang.* Haaland scores the exact goal the whole defensive unit was setup to stop. That's why he reacts like that. All that preparation and he still managed it anyway.
i feel like in the past klopp and pep have had game plans that spur eachother on to play good football, for this game their game plans almost cancelled eachother out so neither would have many good chances
I'll sum up Citeh's Mids vs LIVs at this stage of their development very simply:
Citeh's entire team, from the CBs who step fwd to everyone who enters and contributes to the advancement of the ball through the center of the pitch, to a man move with high pace into space brilliantly OFF the ball. They ALL know where the others are going and will be next and pass not to where the next man is, but where he will be.
LIV 2.0 do NOT move off the ball in possession and anticipate where the man will be to nearly the same extent ... yet.
The brilliance of LIV 1.0 was that they didn't really worry about this type of movement so much as they focused on how THEY moved WITHOUT the ball. The work rate of LIV 1.0s mids in terms of moving into space that disrupts opposition flow was exceptional. Their reading of oppo movement off the ball when they were OUT of possession and anticipation of where the ball would go next was the key ingredient. That's what generated all the midfield turnovers and counter attacks.
szoboszlai and trent for the city goal was just a simple miscommunication, they’ve both thought they’ll cover their sides and ake will be forced into one of them or he’ll pass backwards but when they both covered their sides they left a gap down the middle. A similar thing happened away at arsenal last year with trent and henderson, martinelli for one of the goals was in a similar situation but trent covered his right side and henderson also for some reason commited to stopping him down the middle and right, martinelli stepped inside sending both of them then assisted i think it was saka at the far post. You need to both just stand in a position where there’s no room in the middle but both ready to pounce if they try to go around
this just proves that if u score a good goal, but play badly on the defensive end, all is forgiven 😂
how do u even get dribbled past like 6 times and made Ake look like Prime Hazard for the assist
One thing,trent has improved defensively a lot from last season,sure hes not the best defender but hes definitely improved overall.
I am a gooner and I think Trent doesn’t get the praise he deserved. For me, he is one of the best players in the world right now. Doku did him dirty though
Doku has pretty much roasted every fullback he's come up against this season to be fair.
People talk like Klopp isn't aware of Trents strengths and weaknesses. He knows exactly what they are and knows the things he brings to the team offensively is worth him losing a 1 on 1 battle a couple of times a game.
Shout out to the gravenberch cameo. I think hes all that we hoped keita would be but more athletic
people mistake directing a player with bad defending, notice how trent almost always defended the outside, he’d check his left shoulder and see a load of bodies so he covered if doku went to go around the outside of trent so he either tackled him or doku would go into a load of bodies and would have to pass it backwards or run at a couple defenders
It’s no wonder James pumps out these videos so quick. The analysis is so shallow.
I'm so tired of the Trent narrative. City's goal is much more on Alisson's brainfart than anything else. Honestly, people think Trent's the only player with flaws. Is he the best defensive fullback ever? No. His positional awareness and concentration specifically could be better at times. But he's generally okay defensively, and that's enough.
Even in this game, he was actually good defensively besides the Ake moment (Which Szoboszlai was just as bad for but we're not gonna acknowledge that ig), but people don't want to hear it because they decided he'd get cooked before the game started. Doku got away from him a few times, but guess which one of them came away with a goal involvement? Not the one who apparently cooked
liverpool need a better back 3 then they have right now to accomodate TAA in this hybrid role , Matip wa good , he can position himself in the right places but a slight lack can exploit the defence helped by not having a proper number 6 . Liverpool with a proper 6 can have better protection for the back 3/4 and allow TAA with Dom n Alexis to do more damage . The priority now should be a CB , someone like Tomori and a proper 6 , whoever that he might be , he should be someone who can start the games not like Endo.
or the other solution is ditch TAA as a RB , get a RB , proper defender , put TAA along with Alexis in double pivot
16:14 lets be honest, I watched the game and I am sorry I am not crazy about conspiricy and shit but both Trent and Sobo just didnt even attempt to tackle Ake, you can even see in the match that Ake was shocked himself that he was able to just pass through so easily. These are the types of moments in football where I really question weather games are set up or not. You are not telling me that both Trent and Sobo were near Ake and could have easily tackled him and taken a yellow or just taken the ball in general but they decided to just watch. Bit weird imo.
He scored the goal that saved the match and got us a point
diaz was trying to look for gakpo , at the top D , it was a solid pass , according to me it wasn't a bad pass , just that gakpo didn't pick that pass, and let it go to salah
lets put it simply, can walker do what trent did in the game, scoring the goal? no.
Does anyone know what he used to analyze this?
Doku did better than Trent in the 1 against 1 but Trent had to be attentive of not just Doku but also Silva, apart from being available to go forward with Salah. He did an overall good job. 7/10
The 12:30 ruined the intensity for f the match you could see that some players where clearly not there at all , weird decision to put such a game that early? Prem is being run by idiots
Honestly, trent was decent defensively and didn't win many duels, not 1 defender itw could do much better against doku and silva coming at u for 90 mins
Watching Silva get open that much was infuriating.
I said for weeks before the game that Klopp needed to suck it up and play a 4-2-3-1.
This would have avoided the double teaming against Trent by having someone there to man-mark Silva.
For the Citeh G, the presence of #19 in the center of the pitch prevents VVD from being able to get tight to Haaland. VVD has to rely on Matip to largely deal with him. Effectively, as soon as Ake breaks the lines, Citeh are 4 on 3. THAT is why the failure of Dom, TAA, and Macca to collectively cut Ake off was THE most important and only real failure that led to this G. This is emblematic of almost every goal LIV have allowed on the break through midfield over the past 16 months, not enough steel/dog + recovery pace determination + nouse in midfield across the board.
In other words ... MAKE THE DAMN FOUL ON THE BALL CARRIER! And take your medicine if the ref decides to yellow card you.
VVD is also probably guilty of not communicating to Kostas and Matip that he wanted to move the offside line FWD just prior to Ake's through ball. They stay stationary as he advances past them. Resulting in both of those 2 playing Haaland on. VVD alone has Haaland off.
Head in hands was b/ VVD blamed himself. He has never been shy of shouting at his teammates when he thinks they made a mistake. He didn't do that. I think it's harsh to put much blame on Trent for the goal. Matip should have stepped up and closed down Aka and VVD should not have given the best striker in the world that much space. Ali should have saved it. In analyzing TAA you've got a hard job, he isn't like any other full back in world football.
15:00 Utter fabrication. MacAllister leaves a gaping hole because he thinks Ake is going to pass the ball backwards and so goes to press Rodri, not because there's a miscue by the goalkeeper a whole 10 seconds earlier. MacAllister is not a 6 and if the media really wants to poke holes in Liverpool's defense then they need to take off the blinkers and start there.
As a luton fan we won today oh yeah
You didn’t talk about how pep looked to attack Trent the whole game 80% of city’s attack where that Trent side ? Very pragmatic
People often claimed that Gerrard should have played at right back. Now we that have a broadly similar player in the role, people are only too keen to point out that he isn't the best player in every single position on the field (nor was Gerrard!). It's very easy to point at occasional mistakes as though the player regularly commits the most heinous of sins every time he's on the pitch and is only there "because he passes well" or "he has a great right foot", comments usually made in ignorance of the player's general contribution both with and without the ball. Klopp is not a fool. He wouldn't play Trent as a right back unless he was the best right back we have for the manager's system. Period. Is Trent's job to prevent Doku from ever entering the defensive third or is it to nullify his impact? Since Trent did the latter, job done, move on, next game, nothing to see here; whether he did the former as well is irrelevant. While football can be dissolved into individual battles it's still a team sport, so we defended as a team against an ostensibly better opponent on their home ground, and got a result as a team.
I think it was weird konate didnt start considering he is often very good at defending dribblers who gets past trent.
Just coming back from injury.
Think he’s not 100% fit otherwise he probably would’ve
Cannot totally agree with what you said about Szoboszlai....yes he did not recover the ball before Trent but it was him (after Alexis signaled him to go attack the guy)
who was the first to arrive near Aké after the slippy-sloppy goal kick from Allison which was btw the main problem.
Szoboszlai closed the right side of Aké pretty fast and with a huge momentum while Trent should have been there already on the left but only made a sloppy move while being in a somewhat unbalanced position......and sorry but look at Matip who also should have been more alert with a back scan or something if he chooses to stay there.
Calling Szoboszlai a disgrace because he could not singlehandedly solve the mistake is a bit too much looking at how defenders reacted to this whole situation.
Right side was weak… Doku rinsed and waltzed Matip all game and for the goal he lost Haaland. Trent was protected all game by Szobo and even Salah.
Good video - watching after City have lost points in two more games. Who knows what's happening with them.
I loved you in the goldbergs!
I disagree with the Van Djik take. If you have played CB before you have to trust your partner. What virgil did was trust Matip to read where the pass was going to go, and by the time ake passed the ball Virgil shoulnt have to be by Matip. Especially with alvarez closing after, he cant leave the gap open for him. Im 100% sure if u got a close up of his face before the pass from Ake you would see him communicating with Matip that Haaland is behind. But again, I get that Virgil plays at a level that people are always going to put blame on him.
Name me a defender in world football that can keep up with Doku. I'll wait
Won possession more often than any other player on the pitch, can't defend though.