Saw a quick shot of the lines on one of the pitches at the Liverpool training ground in Slot's recent interview with Lineker.

Slot with 1 loss with Feyenoord in 2024 on penalties in the Europa league playoffs to Roma and 1 loss with Liverpool v Forest in the league. Not a bad year for him

Big difference for me between Klopp and Slot’s Liverpool is the purposeful circulation from the latter to find players between the lines and with Diaz playing centrally and one of three in midfield taking up a more advanced position, it is consistent and opens teams up

Just run after run beyond the Spurs backline from Liverpool and they just aren’t reacting to it. The Szoboszlai chance earlier where he rounded Forster was created so easily. Straight pass and straight run, not even from deep, through the centre of the field.

The fluidity of the players within the positions/roles for Liverpool in this game is very different than anything we saw under Klopp. It was pretty evident v Fulham as well, but I assumed that was just more 'we're down to 10 and need to fill spaces when we can'

Want to hear Slot’s rationale for not taking Nunez, who was poor (is poor) and on a yellow card, off at 3-2 for Endo to see out the last few minutes

Midfield combinations another noticeable change from Klopp to Slot. The amount of the times a Liverpool midfielder sets the ball back to a deeper midfielder, shifts their position, and gets it back is something we didn’t see before.

Van Dijk following Haaland every time he drops, it’s not something that VVD has done in the past. He always used to stay deep, Slot seems to have changed that

It just seems that Liverpool’s rest defense is just better than it was last year. Less chaotic in those moments.

Fair to say whoever this is on commentary wants Graham Taylor in. I get it, McCarthy’s decision to roll it out at that point was the wrong one, but generalizations of ‘building out’ because of one moment or one team are lazy.

Big change for van Dijk this year seems to be him following opposition forwards a greater distance as they drop deeper. Undoubtedly something Slot has asked of him

The Gundogan/Lewis double pivot already being played through with relatively ease, but that’s really a huge surprise, especially with Maddison moving them as he floats

Joao Pedro’s pass/Mitoma’s run is a good example of what I ask wide players/player on the ball to recognize. Oppo full back tightish to wide player, cue to run in behind on blind side of the ball, gap between oppo full back and centre back, cue to play ball through the gap

This is all of Trent's assists up until 2022, so more assists since, but the position of full back has changed significantly for 'elite' teams since then with more inverted players, centre backs playing full back, forming back threes. If Trent moves to Madrid, what do Liverpool look to identify?