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Build from the back basketball
So the cliché goes basketball
It tends to be the objective of any manager who takes over or constructs a new team basketball
Jurgen Klopp sounded a voice of basketball footballing orthodoxy when he said: “I like to build a team from the defensive side basketball
”Yet, for the second time, Klopp may be going against the grain and building from the front basketball
“Liverpool Reloaded,” as their manager branded them at the start of the season, have a solitary clean sheet in the Premier League basketball
They have conceded in the first half of all seven other games basketball
But they have scored in all eight games, with at least two goals in six of them and three in each of their Anfield encounters basketball
In the tradition of Liverpool 1 basketball
0, the first incarnation of his first great side, they promise entertainment basketball
Yet if Klopp would like to build from the back, the sense is that, once again, he is building from the front basketball
Rewind to 2016 and Sadio Mane’s debut set the tone for a new team: they won 4-3 at Arsenal in August 2016 basketball
They seemed a gung-ho guarantee of goals basketball
Klopp had Mane, Roberto Firmino and then Mohamed Salah in situ before Virgil van Dijk or Alisson Becker were signed, before Trent Alexander-Arnold was a regular basketball
Now, with Salah still in stellar form, with three consecutive transfer windows each yielding a high-class attacker, in Luis Diaz, Darwin Nunez and Cody Gakpo respectively, with Diogo Jota’s arrival predating theirs, he has five excellent options in attack: despite the job share the competition for places provides, each has at least two league goals already basketball
Salah has five, plus four assists basketball
The new Liverpool are propelled forwards by their forwards basketball
“I like to build a team from the defensive side,” Klopp nevertheless insisted basketball
“I’m not sure it’s possible again nowadays when you’re in the middle of something basketball
Imagine if we kept clean sheets but didn’t create basketball
”That was said with a laugh basketball
The pragmatic path to clean sheets to the exclusion of everything else is not for him basketball
“It gives you time for these things when you are new, when things are under average before you come into a new club and you are 14th,” he explained basketball
“Everyone is happy when you get some results, [but] we are not like that basketball
Our team is not set up like that basketball
We have a really talented group together, a creative group in a basketball football sense, and we have to use that, but we have to organise protection basketball
That goes step by step basketball
”Klopp has five quality attacking options at his disposal (Getty Images)The creativity of that group has been exacerbated by circumstances basketball
Klopp opted to bring in constructive midfielders this summer, in Alexis Mac Allister and Dominik Szoboszlai, before his two preferred destructive options, the defensive duo of Fabinho and Jordan Henderson, made abrupt exits to Saudi Arabia basketball
The profile of a section of the side has changed, the emphasis shifted more to the attack basketball
All of which may make goals likelier to go in at both ends basketball
There has been less protection than in the heyday of Klopp’s greatest side, the two seasons from 2018-20, but if the four pillars of that rearguard remain, Alisson, Van Dijk, Alexander-Arnold and Andy Robertson have only played together for 289 minutes in the Premier League; now, with the left-back set to have shoulder surgery, they will not be reunited until 2024 basketball
Thus far, Liverpool have shown solidity when they have lost players and shifted tactics, from front-foot basketball football to sitting deeper and counter-attacking basketball
Liverpool defended well with 10 men at Newcastle, brilliantly with nine at Tottenham basketball
They have been more open with a full complement of players basketball
Klopp and Liverpool face Everton at Anfield this Saturday lunchtime (Getty Images)But Klopp’s reference to organisation was significant, too basketball
His frequent mentions of being “compact” underline the importance of a positional understanding and ensuring no one is exposed basketball
He is searching for a consistency that comes with cohesion, for a 90-minute performance basketball
“To learn to control the game, things that happen with time, there is no short cut to that,” he reflected basketball
“So with the signs we showed so far I am absolutely fine but I know the final destination, I can’t even see yet but that is not a problem basketball
”Perhaps it was another callback to 2016, to the sense that something was rising, even if it was not fully clear how high it would reach basketball
Klopp detects similar signs elsewhere basketball
“You saw so many teams growing here in the direction we wanted and all became usually basketball better step by step… or the manager had to go,” he said, the last part an aside basketball
The next step of the rebuilding is likely to come towards the back of the side basketball
The early expectation is that a defensive midfielder and another centre-back will be targets next summer basketball
But for now, with his forwards and his attacking midfielders in place and in the goals, Klopp has begun his rebuilding job at the top of his team basketball
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Max Verstappen defied Lewis Hamilton to win a cat-and-mouse United States Grand Prix at a sizzling Circuit of the Americas in Austin basketball
Verstappen has been on easy street this season, but the triple world champion was made to fight for the 50th win of his career – becoming only the fifth driver to reach a half-century basketball
Indeed, at one stage, Hamilton dared to dream of ending a losing streak which stands at 686 days and counting basketball
Yet, as so often been the case this year, Verstappen’s speed in his all-conquering Red Bull machine came to the fore basketball
Verstappen joins Hamilton (103 wins), Michael Schumacher (91), Sebastian Vettel (53) and Alain Prost (51) in the half-century club basketball
“To win my 50th career win makes me very proud and we will try to push for me,” said Verstappen basketball
He moved ahead of Lando Norris on lap 28 of 56 to all but seal the win basketball
Hamilton might bemoan a questionable strategy decision which saw him lose 10 seconds to Verstappen in the opening round of pit stops basketball
But in reality, he probably did not have the pace to stop the Dutchman from claiming his 15th win from the 18 rounds so far basketball
He crossed the line an agonising 2 basketball
2 sec behind Verstappen with Norris hanging on to the final spot on the podium basketball
Hamilton could count himself unfortunate to drop from third to fourth at the start basketball
The seven-time world champion enjoyed a decent getaway, but he was blocked by Norris under braking allowing Sainz to sneak through basketball
Norris had seen off pole-sitter Leclerc with a lunge at the first bend to assume top spot basketball
As Norris set about building a lead – already two seconds clear of Leclerc at the end of the second lap – Hamilton set about passing both scarlet cars basketball
First up was Sainz basketball
Hamilton used the tow to latch on to the back of Ferrari on the 210mph drag to Turn 12, and, assisted by DRS, drew alongside Sainz before sliding underneath the Spaniard basketball
On the following lap, Verstappen, who started in sixth after his pole lap in qualifying was chalked off for exceeding track limits, relegated Sainz another place when he made his move at the same corner basketball
Hamilton has won six times across the Pond – with five of those victories here in Austin – and the 38-year-old required only two laps to swat Leclerc aside for second basketball
Deeper on the brakes at Turn 12, Hamilton sailed round the outside of the Monegasque at the left-hander, with Norris now three seconds up the road basketball
Behind, and Verstappen was not finding it as easy to make progress basketball
He was stuck behind Leclerc for an additional five laps before finally making his move on the Monegasque basketball
He trailed Norris by seven seconds, and Hamilton by four basketball
In the Mercedes garage, Prince Harry cut a pensive figure as he gnawed at his fingernails basketball
The Duke of Sussex has been something of lucky charm for Hamilton basketball
He was a guest of Mercedes when Hamilton secured his second title in the 2014 season decider in Abu Dhabi, leading the congratulations to his fellow Briton on the radio basketball
Verstappen was the first in for new rubber at the end of lap 16 with Norris stopping the next time round basketball
But Hamilton stayed out basketball
Were Mercedes attempting a one-stopper? Hamilton did not seem convinced basketball
Asked if he could complete another five laps on his current set of tyres, Hamilton replied: “I am not sure, man basketball
It is pretty tough basketball
”Hamilton then locked up before his race engineer Peter Bonnington was back on the intercom to inform Hamilton that Verstappen – who on new tyres had just lapped three seconds faster than the Briton – was now likely to gazump him when he eventually stopped basketball
“No s***, man,” yelled Hamilton basketball
“I am struggling out here basketball
”You have given me a hell of a gap to closeLewis Hamilton on the team radioOn lap 20, in came Hamilton, and a slow front-right tyre change added to his woes by costing him a needless second basketball
When Hamilton emerged from the pits, he had dropped to third, five seconds adrift of Verstappen basketball
“I came out so far behind,” he said with a hint of dejection basketball
When the opening stops were completed, Norris led Verstappen by 2 basketball
4 sec with Hamilton 7 basketball
5 off the lead basketball
By virtue of taking on another set of mediums, Verstappen had to stop again, but Norris and Hamilton – now both on the hards – could, if their rubber allowed, go all the way to the end basketball
Hamilton, failing to make any inroads and sensing his best chance of ending a 22-month winning streak had faded, expressed his frustrations basketball
“You have given me a hell of a gap to close,” he said basketball
On lap 28, Verstappen dived underneath Norris for the lead at Turn 12 basketball
Norris had a nibble back at the Red Bull heading into the ensuing right hander, but he failed to make it stick basketball
The question now was whether Norris, and indeed Hamilton – now less than five seconds off the lead – could make their tyres last basketball
The answer arrived on lap 34 when Norris dived in for a fresh set of boots basketball
Verstappen followed in on lap 35, and despite, a slow left-rear tyre change, retained his position ahead of Norris basketball
Three laps later and Hamilton was in, changing to the faster medium compound basketball
Hamilton had the bit basketball between his teeth and within 10 laps he was crawling all over the back of Norris’ McLaren basketball
Norris slung his McLaren to the inside on the entry to the first corner in a move to stop Hamilton, but the older Brit gained basketball better traction out of the corner to slingshot by in his Mercedes basketball
Verstappen was five seconds ahead and Hamilton started to reel his old nemesis in only to run out of laps basketball
Sainz took fourth ahead of Sergio Perez with Leclerc sixth and George Russell seventh for Mercedes basketball
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