00:00When Ipswich went to the Emirates earlier this season,
00:02Arsenal ended up with 84 per cent of possession in the first half.
00:06You've spoken just now about the idea of wanting to turn more possession into chances.
00:10When a team is so happy to surrender,
00:12what's the key to doing that and putting them under pressure without having attempts on goal?
00:17Yeah, that's not always easy.
00:20My former club Feyenoord played during the week against Bayern Munich
00:23and no-one would have expected that result.
00:27But it also shows you, I think Bayern had 80 per cent ball possession,
00:31how difficult it is against a low-block,
00:34if a low-block works that hard, as Feyenoord did, and Ipswich did as well,
00:39to create chance after chance after chance.
00:43I think you also see this back in the days when my assistant John Huytenga
00:49played for the Dutch national team, when they then played Gibraltar,
00:52not to compare Feyenoord or Ipswich with Gibraltar,
00:55but even lower level like Gibraltar, if they went to a low-block, it was 10-0.
00:59But if these teams do it now, it ends up being 4-0, 3-0,
01:03so you don't see these results with such a big margin,
01:07with the exception of City last week.
01:10But I don't think Ipswich went to a low-block constantly in that game.
01:17So it shows you how difficult it is if players are well-trained, well-managed,
01:21and play with a lot of intensity and willingness not to concede,
01:27how difficult it is to score goals against any team in the world,
01:31let alone against a Premier League team.
01:33I think we faced this against United, we faced this against Forrest,
01:38we faced it a bit against Brentford as well, these low-blocks.
01:45So, yeah, it's difficult for every single team everywhere in Europe.
01:50So do you think this might be a game where the team and the fans have to be a bit more patient?
01:57You mentioned the game against Man City where it was a big score,
02:02do you think there's a danger some people might come into it thinking,
02:04well, that's going to be the same game?
02:06No, that is difficult for fans, and my father is a fan as well,
02:12and when I call him after the game he can also say,
02:14well, it wasn't as exciting as other games of Liverpool when he watched the game against Lille.
02:20And I have to try to explain to him that these games you can easily lose
02:26if you're starting to force all kinds of difficult balls.
02:30But he's not always agreeing with me, Dan!
02:35LAUGHTER
02:37But as a manager I was quite happy with our performance against Lille,
02:42because they were a team that are so well-organised and so much control,
02:47and I think there was one moment in the game I can remember
02:50that Curtis tried to play at the halfway line a bit of a ball that wasn't a bit of a risk,
02:56and we lost that ball and they counter-attacked us.
02:59So that's the risk you have if you play against a low-block team.
03:03Forrest is probably the best in the league if you play these stupid balls,
03:07which I call stupid balls, which my father would love to see us playing a bit more.
03:13That is the risk of them creating much more chances,
03:18and there's a difficult balance between taking the risk and conceding a lot,
03:23or having control and maybe not creating as much,
03:26but against this team going 1-0 down, like we've seen against Forrest,
03:31is even a bigger problem than if you are especially against a low-block.
03:40So it's the balance we have to find, and I can understand it's sometimes difficult for fans as well
03:45that come to the stadium to see us winning,
03:48but hopefully us scoring a lot of goals in an exciting match.
03:52But, yeah, you need two teams for that, and the better we do,
03:56the less likely it is that teams come to Anfield and say,
03:58OK, let's go to high-press and let's press them all over the pitch.
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