Man city 4-0 Liverpool. How pep dominated klopp. A thread

Both teams lined up in a 433, although both teams were fluid. In possession kdb pushed up behind jesus to create a 4411

But when building up from gks our cbs would split meaning the fullbacks can push higher. Liverpools front three were looking to press narrow, cutting off the wide passes. So gundogan dropped into our box and kdb moves into gundogans position

We mention that Liverpools press was effective at time and they did win the ball high up the pitch, but lacked the killer touch. But Liverpool pushing the midfield high presented problems, as jesus would drop deep into the space and we were quickly moving at a back 4

Higher up the pitch we depended on gundogan and rodri to dominate the ball against Liverpools midfield 3. Also to note that Liverpool didnt press for the whole game. In contrast to the deep role he played against newcastle yesterday he was almost a second striker.

But the use of foden meant that he drifted into the midfield, this allowed walker to be much more involved in overlapping that usual, we see this in fodens goal. However this did also have drawbacks, time and again walker was caught high, Liverpool looked for a quick pass to mane

When Liverpool had the ball, we defended in a 442 mid to high block with kdb next to jesus. Firminho looked to join the midfield to draw the defence higher, for Liverpools wingers to make diagonal runs in behind with a long ball often coming from their cbs.

In more controlled phases Liverpool attempted to overload the right side, with tta, salah and henderson, which gave salah the freedom to go central, seeing this when salah hits the post.

But in the transition kdb would look for the empty space left by the fullback on either side, and looked to drive up the pitch before releasing a fellow forward, we see this in the ox own goal.

Kdb was the key man in this match, finding pockets of space in central regions and out wide leading to a goal and assist. End of thread