Originally, Villa's away game against Liverpool was just an ordinary premier league matchup, but because Villa's manager is Gerrard, this makes Liverpool fans look forward to this game, hoping to test whether Gerrard has the ability to coach Liverpool after Klopp's departure through this game! Although Villa lost 0-1 to Liverpool, Gerrard's tactical arrangement and on-the-spot scheduling were very appropriate, and this "interview" Gerrard delivered a satisfactory answer.
Judging from the starting lineup of this game, Gerald sat on the bench with attacking players such as Buendia and Ince, which was obviously intended to defend first and then wait for the opportunity to play a defensive counterattack. At the beginning of the game, Villa took the initiative to attack Liverpool's right side defense, and Gerrard's arrangement was based on Arnold's shortcomings in attacking strong and weak, so as to suppress Liverpool's attack through attack. Gerrard's tactical arrangement is right, otherwise Arnold will press into the front and Villa will play very passively. For Gerald's arrangement, Klopp also made corresponding preparations, then let Arnold do a good job of defense, and organize the attack to be placed on the left Robertson side.
Klopp's arrangement nearly undermined Gerrard's tactical deployment, but Villa used limited attacking opportunities to threaten Van Dijk's defence in the first half. In the 12th minute of the game, Villa's attack let directly hit Van Dijk, so that Van Dijk had to defend Watkins alone, seeing that Watkins was about to burst into the penalty area with the ball, Van Dijk could only use a foul to stop the attack, and this foul also allowed Van Dijk to get a yellow card. It is normal to take a yellow card as a defensive player, but it is not normal to appear on Van Dijk, to know that Van Dijk has only received one yellow card per season since joining Liverpool for so many seasons, and now Villa's attack has allowed Van Dijk to get the yellow card quota for the past season, and it has to be said that Gerrard still has a way to defend and counterattack.
Villa's defense in the first half gave Liverpool few good attacking opportunities, and in the second half, Gerrard still adopted the tactics of iron barrel defense counterattack. Some people may wonder if Gerald will not adjust the offense, but will only use the method of stealing one to fight defensive counterattacks? When Villa was knocked off by Liverpool for a penalty, Gerrard tried to overpower the attack, such as the attack that caused Alisson to be embarrassed on the line of the big penalty area, Alisson's save was suspected of foul, and the referee may award Villa a penalty. In fact, Gerrard also understands that when there is no compulsion, he will not press up to play against Liverpool, because this will give Liverpool a lot of offensive space, and salah's missed offensive opportunity is the best proof, which is the reason why Gerrard put up an iron barrel formation.
When Villa fell behind because of a penalty, Gerrard also quickly made personnel adjustments, successively sending offensive players such as Buendia and Ince, who had offensive strength, and these players brought Opportunities to Villa to attack after playing, which showed Gerrard's ability to dispatch on the spot. The enemy is strong and weak will make targeted deployments, the score changes quickly to make adjustments, there are tactical ideas, there is on-site scheduling ability, only a small loss of one goal recently attacked the powerful Liverpool, Gerrard This "interview" is undoubtedly successful, in the future, even if Klopp leaves Liverpool, he is not worried about Liverpool's follow-up no one.