Last night, the Egyptian Football Association officially announced that Liverpool star Salah tested positive for the new crown and the player has been quarantined. Salah's illness has once again cast a shadow over Liverpool's future prospects. This international game day, the Red Army added 2 more wounded.
According to statistics, Liverpool have had 14 players suffered different injuries this season. Even if Mane and Salah are not affected by the illness on the court, the remaining 12 players have suffered different injuries and missed the game. Liverpool have suffered a lot of injuries this season, you can say that they are unlucky, but behind this, there may be a huge drawback of Klopp's tactics.
We all know that the biggest feature of Uncle Zha's tactics is running. Basically every strong contest, no matter the victory or defeat, the running distance of the whole team of Liverpool must be ahead of the opponent. In the most typical game of , in the Champions League semi-finals of the previous season, a big reason why Liverpool were able to reverse Barcelona with 4 goals was that they ran 7km more than their opponents.
According to a data before the lockout last season, Liverpool is the fifth-highest running distance among the 20 Premier League teams. The remaining four teams are Bournemouth, Newcastle, Burnley and Everton. The situation here is that the first four teams are all relegation teams, and they are bound to be exhausted when defending. But the Red Army is a championship team. In theory, they don't need to run too much overall. In a player sprint ranking, Liverpool ranked first in the Premier League.
can be seen from many aspects, the reason why Liverpool have been successful in the past two seasons is a big reason for running more than others. In fact, looking at Liverpool at present, it is difficult to say which player has fine skills (excluding Thiago who has just joined) and has high talent. The reason why the Red Army can have such an outstanding record is that in the final analysis, it runs more than others, so that it creates more opportunities.
It seems that this is indeed a good tactic. On the one hand, players with insufficient talent will know that as long as they are willing to run, they must have a chance; on the other hand, this is also a trend in the current world football.
But everything in the world has two sides, and tactics are not surprising. Although Klopp's running and bombing tactics seem to create more opportunities, it will actually increase the physical burden of players. In the past, Z7z's tactics have exposed similar weaknesses in Dortmund's past. Once Dortmund's running and bombing also galloped Europe, but the peak period is not long, and the decline is extremely fast.
and the current Liverpool, in fact, somewhat a shadow of Dortmund a few years ago. In the current Liverpool team, Salah and Mane are 28 years old, Henderson is 30 years old, Van Dijk is 29 years old, almost the entire central axis, have come to a bottleneck stage of player age.
Liverpool's explosive injury this season, apart from unlucky reasons, perhaps behind the incident is the natural weakness of Uncle Slag's running and bombing tactics. Of course, Klopp must also know this problem, so he also tried to introduce Thiago, trying to change the team's play. But I didn't expect that Liverpool's injury wave, with such a intensive schedule this season, would come so fast.
