That's exactly what this is. There's always been teams who have used the front line especially to press intently and be the 'first line of defence'. It's all derivative. All changes in football are just tweaks or incremental in nature and never are the revolution that the footy industry tries to sell them to us as.
How is Klopp's approach substantially different to Royle's when he turned up and got a dilatory team at Everton to tighten up and compete ferociously for the ball and then when it broke our way rely on players like Limpar or Kanchelskis to do their stuff, spearheaded by players like Rideout? I was reading that Limpar once described to Swedish journalists that Everton's style under Royle was like hunting with wolves. We've seen Klopp's 'full throttle' football on Merseyside before. Royle's team was the prototype. Of course, when that Everton side pressed it was mocked by the Kopites as anti-football; now they're doing it and it's the blueprint for European ascendancy.
They're gullible and laughable clowns. They'll eat up all the nonsense about gegenpresse and full throttle and heavy metal football and believe themselves to be on the cusp of a new way of playing...when it's all old hat. Hilarious.
They were knackered after about 20 minutes yesterday and mignolet bailed them out big time
Lol at origi aswell, load of gash him
My word!!

Exactly. That's how gullible they are.Strange that they've seen it themselves before, Rush was always described as their first line of defence, he was good at chasing down defenders, no biggie.
Loving the gegenpresse, sounds just like the echo if said scousely....
...and this is the reception they face if they ever go to Anfield.....
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I tend to use the word deluded when i talk about themExactly. That's how gullible they are.
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