The Regista - Liverpool vs Newcastle tactical review: Vintage Klopp press; Endo the key; wingers at their best

Tribalfootball.com's tactics expert Connor Holden examines Liverpool's rout of Newcastle United on Monday night and declares the Reds were back to their vintage best under manager Jurgen Klopp...

This game saw Liverpool return to vintage Jurgen Klopp football, with their suffocating press and relentless pressure. The Reds scored four goals, beating Newcastle 4-2, but even more impressively posting a Premier League record of 7.26 x/G, the most recorded by a single team in a game since the recording of this statistic.

But just how did Klopp's men take the game to Newcastle, and how did they create this amount of clear cut chances against The Magpies? Let's take a look...

LIVERPOOL SET-UP

Liverpool set up in their familiar 4-3-3, which in possession see's a very free role for Trent Alexander-Arnold to invert into midfield, as well as drift into the back line to find space to dictate play.

The roles of the midfield three are indicative of how Klopp wants his team to play on the front foot. The two outside midfielders are the box to box number eights, who are athletic types that can fulfil the pressing duties being asked of them high up the pitch. The role of the number six (in this case Wataru Endo) is to protect the lines behind the eights as they press, and cut off progressive central passes in behind the initial pressing lines.

Mohamed Salah, Darwin Nunez and Luis Diaz complete the team leading the line, with Salah and Diaz providing width in attack and Nunez floating between the lines as the spearhead of this forward line. Again these players have important roles in pressing and counter pressing to win the ball back in dangerous areas, turning defence to attack in very few actions.

VINTAGE KLOPP PRESS