Liverpool's Trent Alexander-Arnold has come in for a lot of criticism in recent days as a defender who is very good going forward but is so poor in defence that he sometimes puts his own team at risk, a situation that at least Jurgen Klopp has decided to change for this UEFA Champions League game against Rangers in Scotland.
It is said that for this third date of the European competition, the German coach specifically instructed to play deeper to take into account at all times that creative side that the Scots know how to exploit so much, being a decision that obviously happened to harm and benefit the British home defender number 66, as the orders of not being so aggressive forward paid off with that score of 2-0.
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Certainly it's rare to see Alexander-Arnold not repeatedly overrun the midfield and more so playing at Anfield, but the solution to stopping the Briton's explosive creativity vanished with four attackers on the pitch, making the defender focus more on the task of not allowing Rangers to attack than generating attacking moves that were well orchestrated for the most part by Mohamed Salah.
Given that everyone inside and outside Liverpool consider the No.66's attacking play to be his greatest strength as a player, those orders from the German coach were surprising and also a little strange, for while his order not to go beyond the midfield was evidence of his poor defensive return and cover, it also showed a solid TAA without much hesitation whenever the Scots created danger in the last 30 metres close to his goal.
At the end of the match, things went perfectly for Jürgen Klopp, as in addition to the win that was so badly needed after the draw against Brighton in the Premier League, the team's performance did not show as many ups and downs as in previous matches, with players like Mohamed Salah and Arnold, both of whom scored the two goals that now have the Reds as runners-up in their group with six points.
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