The GENIUS Way Liverpool Just Broke Real Madrid's System

Liverpool's incredible season shows no signs of slowing down, after a dominant 2-0 win over reigning European Champions Real Madrid. While a lot of the focus was on the misfiring Kylian Mbappe, Adam Clery looks at how Arne Slot turned a close, edgy game, into another win for The Reds.

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[archmaester]

It is still early days. Liverpool have yet to play a team above them in the league

[kristianirwin]

Adam puts the majority of pundits on tv to shame. His analysis is always incredible

[MarkFaulkneruk]

There once was a lad named Bradley,
Who faced Mbappe quite gladly,
His tackles were clean,
His defense was keen,
And he shut down the Frenchman quite madly!

[HALLOWEENSLASHER]

I think Nunez's influence is being heavily overlooked. He drops back and helps the whole spine of liverpool flow, the fact he's got pace to race from the back and take on the opposition it opens so much space for us to attack

[Aung]

Losing to Forest has been a blessing in disguise. It’s allowed them to learn about their weaknesses to improve upon and be humble too.

[Otekos]

I love the fact that Gravenberch is such a threat that Madrid's strategy was to stop him from having the ball!

[cypherspaceagain]

I thought the bigger tactical change at half-time was telling Conor Bradley to ignore Mbappe completely. He pushed up straight away into the inside-forward position and Van Dijk could suddenly hit a crossfield pass to Salah in space. The overload that allowed Mac Allister to score wasn't just on the left side, it was on the right too. Bradley on the inside with Salah on the outside meant that Mendy had no idea who to cover; he wasn't close enough to Bradley to stop him playing the pass back in to Mac Allister, who scores, after Bradley himself had nearly scored a minute earlier with a free header. This can only have been a Slot instruction; I can't believe that any sane right-back would decide to leave Kylian Mbappe unmarked but Slot must have seen that Mbappe was never going to chase Bradley backwards and decided it was a risk worth taking.

[kiros]

I do think Szobosolai gets way too much hate cos of his lack of output. His prescence at the top and bottom of the field is crazy

[kd]

I’m always so impressed with Slot’s in game changes. It’s like he uses the first half to analyse what the team is doing and figure them out. It’s fascinating.

[dataflick]

Rumour has it Slot hangs a picture of the 1 nil loss to forest in his bedroom. It's the first thing he sees when he wakes up and the last thing he sees before he sleeps.

[ngjiherhn]

This is the type of stuff I needed injected straight into my veins.
Never in a 100 million years would I have thought that a 35 mil Argentine boy, a Scouser, and Bayern's reject would unequivocally become the best midfield in the world.

God I love being a Liverpool supporter. ❤‍🔥

[ghstransistr]

Based on the interviews from Feyenoord's players, they were saying about how Slot always referencing everything he wanted from the team with Liverpool style of doing it. They are shown hundred of videos of Klopp's Liverpool tactics. With respect, even with players with lesser footballing ability, with Slot guiding them, they managed to somehow do it their way and won the Eredevisie.

Now Slot has the "reference team"... the whole squad. That's why he's unstoppable at the moment IMO.

[holdin]

Well done for highlighting how good Bradley was last night. Trent had a game in the CL when he was first getting in the team and it showed everyone he can do it at the top level and this is what Connor did last night. Don't forget his runs in to the box and nearly scoring, he was amazing.

He was good last season when he got in the team and last night he's just proved he can go against anyone in europe.

[osiomogieasekome]

The first goal was incredible... Slot wasn't even sure who got the assist and when he heard it was Bradley he made a joke about how did he get there 😂

[MadLFC]

A point to make. The Nottingham Forest "blip" has actually served a purpose to this Liverpool team. Slot has learned from it and since that game the team hasn't looked back. That is Slot's intelligence as a manager. The most intelligent and humble managers learn from mistakes and move forward with wisdom and Slot has proved that he's that kind of manager.

[kd]

I think that was Liverpool’s best game of the season. The utter dominance in the second half was crazy. Against Madrid, a team that they haven’t beaten in 15 years. And obviously they’re injury stricken but it’s still Madrid at the end of the day.

[kimberleyaxxxx]

Crackin' analysis Adam. But a tad simplistic.
You missed two big things about Arne's playing tactics.
1- Use of Possession to over-work the Real Madrid pattern..
Yes, he used 443 ..or 344 in attack.
But he also.... used possession to run the legs off them...he OVERWORKED their pattern with a high passing rate..
Whatever their pattern.. he tires them out.
Second point, and one i think you will love. The Shiny One uses the first half to stress test the opposition. 😂 Think about it...slightly boring first halfs...? He always changes tactics and intensity in the 2nd half, having got the measure of them. A bit like Paisley's canny fixes.
Arne Slot is way too smart to just rely on / or be overly fearful of any spatial advantages i.e. gaps of exposure...Arne uses a combination of tactics to put teams through the Arne Slot wringer.. if you get me..?

[williswatsons]

This is the only channel showing video of the football alongside the analysis, instead of still images with circles. Thank you for the brilliant video as always, subscribed!

[JustinLT]

The further the season goes, the more I believe Arne slot is just a football tactical genius.

I can see Arne actually winning more cups with a more complete team. Actually a compliment to Jurgen Klopp as he had to walk so slot can run with it. Very unlucky aswell to have had an impenetrable city side to compete with for the last 8 or so years.

Also special shout-out to Steven Gerrard. Watching him as a young boy I fell in love with the game of football and he had to practically crawl at times so Liverpool could be the powerhouse they are today. Always captain fantastic idk how else to describe it wish he played a 100 years. YNWA ❤

[mbdtsmo]

Grav really reminds me of Busquets, there is such a simplicity and elegance to what Gravs doing