How Klopp manipulated Arteta’s high pressing : Liverpool 4–0 Arsenal.

On Saturday night Liverpool outplayed Arsenal easily in Anfield Road, Arteta cannot answer for Thiago & Jota positioning question in 90 min match even after his adjustments.

In Liverpool’s build up
The ball with Allison.
Aubameyang with Matip.
-Lacazette with Fabinho
Saka between Van Dijk &Tsimikas
And Party with Thiago

What happened is that Thiago came down from his initial position to a very close place to his penalty box
Now, if Party moves with him, he will leave the depth of the pitch uncovered So ,In order to cover the depth behind the 1st line of pressing, he is pointing more than once to Saka to shut down passing lane to Thiago first to force Livepool’s players to play to the side, so they can easily pressure them there.

And when the ball went to the side, Lacazette went with Thiago
- Auba went down with Fabinho
Tomiyasu went out to meet Tsimikas if he received the ball.
- But Van Dijk understood the situation and decided to not play there.

In the 2nd situation
Arsenal players are standing, waiting Alisson to play the ball to start their pressing plan.
- Thiago begins to move towards his penalty area.

- At the same time, Jota moves towards the midfield.
- Party confused, Shall I go with Thiago or to go back to mark Jota.
And he decided to go back with Jota and leave Thiago
- Indeed, Thiago receives the ball and plays it to Chamberlain on the sideline and they could bypass the pressure.

In Mid-Block phase

- Saka jumps to press on Van dijk
Thiago, move closer to him
- Thaigo here is responsible from Lacazette and Partey should stick in his line , but because he was standing far away from him, Partey had to step to press on Thiago.

• Thiago received the ball without any pressure, he had space and time, Partey decided to step out from his line.
  - With Jota’s move, he exploited the space behind Partey
  - Here Gabriel can’t go out with Jota because of Salah and Mane positioning, he will leave a large space in the depth.

After the last situation, Arteta decided that Partey who is responsible for Thiago.

- In the 3rd goal, Party moved with Thiago from higher position.
- The ball was played to Tsimikas , who would be empty before Tomiyasu stepping out.

He plays one touch pass to Jota who dropped towards the space behind Partey.
- Niles was late in covering the depth of the field.
- The ball was played to Mane and [2 v 2] situation.

Again and again, the 4th goal

• Niles in this situation stepped out with Thiago to let Partey cover the depth of the pitch
  - Minamino pulled Party towards the side slightly, therefore the depth of the field was completely free for Henderson
  - The space was created once again.

We had [them under] no pressure. They punished us, we lost control of the game and they had all the momentum.