SUNDAY 25 AUGUST 2019Emery’s tactics open door for
Liverpool full-backs
Trent Alexander-Arnold was afforded plenty of space (EPA)
RICHARD JOLLY
AT ANFIELD
EMERY’S NARROW APPROACH BACKFIRES
Jurgen Klopp has noticed how teams tend to experiment with tactics they have rarely used before at
Anfield. Even he may have been surprised to encounter an Arsenal side without width. A four-diamond-two
formation was notable for its narrowness: designed, perhaps, to congest the centre and prevent Liverpool
from finding even the smallest of gaps in the areas where their midfielders and forwards combine in close
quarters, but ignoring the reality that Andrew Robertson and Trent Alexander-Arnold are Europe’s most