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"Мой Ливерпуль" - первый финал Кубка Англии
В 43-м розыгрыше старейшего турнира Британии приняло участие рекордное по тем временам количество участников - 476 клубов.
В первом раунде "Ливерпуль" Тома Уотсона лишь в переигровке одолел клуб "Барнсли" на поле стадиона "Оуквелл" - 1:0.
В матче Второго раунда "Ливерпуль" на поле стадиона "Энфилд" уверенно переиграл "Джиллингем" - 2:0.
В матче Третьего раунда на поле лондонского "Болейн Граунд", "Ливерпуль" после гола Тома Миллера не удержал переимущество - 1:1, но в матче-переигровке на поле своего стадиона в пух разнес оборону "Хаммеров" под руководством Сидни Кинга - 5:1.
В четвертьфинальном матче розыгрыша турнира "Ливерпуль" принимал ещё один лондонский клуб "Куинз Парк", и при 43 000 зрителях собравшихся на стадионе "Энфилд" усилиями Джеки Шелдона и Тома Миллера одолел "Обручей" со счетом - 2:1
Скетч на победное выступление "Ливерпуля" против "Рейнджеров" на страницах местной газеты Liverpool Echo.
После того, как "Ливерпуль" одолел "Астон Виллу" 2:0 в полуфинале Кубка Англии 1914 года, 25-го апреля клуб отправился на лондонский стадион "Кристал Пэлас", чтобы встретиться с "Бернли" в финальном матче турнира. Это был первый финал Кубка Англии для "красных", который собрал впечатляющее количество зрителей – 72 778.
Программка в финальному матчу Кубка Англии 2014 года
Этот финал стал одним из наиболее ожидаемых. К нему "Ливерпуль" привел тренер, который дольше всех пребывал на этом посту, Том Уотсон.
Форма, в которой команды вышли на поле
Матч прошел на глазах правящего монарха, Короля Георга V, причем это был первый случай в истории когда сам монарх присутствовал на финальном матче Кубка Англии.
После того, как первый тайм не принес ни одного гола, команды ушли на перерыв. Вторая половина матча началась неудачно для мерсисайдцев. На 13-й минуте второго тайма Фримен забил гол за "Бернли". Это был прекрасный гол достойный финала.
"Ливерпуль" приложил все усилия, чтобы добиться равенства в счете, но "Бернли" не подпустил к своим воротам. Таким образом, когда прозвучал финальный свисток, с минимальным преимуществом победили соседи мерсисайдцев.
Конечно, когда "красные" получали свои награды из рук монарха, как участники финала Кубка Англии, они чувствовали обиду, потому что в целом матч прошел без явного преимущества одной из сторон. Но дома их ждал восторженный прием фанатов, ведь это был наш первый финал Кубка Англии.
Лишь в 1965 году "Ливерпуль" сможет завоевать этот трофей. То есть пройдет 51 год между первым участием "красных" в финале этого турнира и победой в нем. Сегодня на счету мерсисайдцев 7 таких кубков.
Примечательно, что этот финал стал последним проводимым в рамках решающих игр турнира на стадионе "Кристал Пэлас" с 1894 года.
"Бернли" - "Ливерпуль" - 1:0
"Ливерпуль": Кемпбелл, Лонгвуорт, Парселл, Фэйрфул, Маккинли, Фергюсон; Шелдон, Миткалф, Миллер, Лейси, Николл.
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Arne Slot: The Dutch football view on likely new Liverpool manager
With the news that Liverpool are on the verge of appointing Arne Slot as the club’s new manager, we spoke with Dutch football expert Arthur Renard to get the lowdown on the incoming boss.
Tell us about Slot’s style of play; we hear that he favours a 4-2-3-1 formation, is very possession based and quite a high pressing game. How similar is his style to Jurgen’s?Yeah, there is definitely a similarity, I think especially in the the high pressing, there’s definitely a similarity with the current Liverpool [but] Jurgen may be is a little bit different. You could maybe say that that Jurgen is a bit more direct.
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[embedded content]Arne Slot likes to build and play a little bit more football through the whole pitch, whereas maybe Klopp you could argue, he’s maybe more direct.
What I like about Slot is that he likes to play his game and the pressing game wherever he plays and against anyone. So it doesn’t matter if he plays, let’s say Real Madrid away or whatever game, he plays his style. And that is something I think Liverpool fans will like a lot.
In your article for BBC Sport, you mention Pep Guardiola’s influence on Slot. Tell us about that.
He’s a big fan of Guardiola, so I would say his style even more towards Guardiola [than Klopp], although I guess with Guardiola and Klopp they’d both like their teams to have the ball to attack.
He’s a huge admirer of of Guardiola. He [Slot] said: “Pep Guardiola gives me the ultimate joy in football.
“There is no team in the world I would rather watch than Manchester City, followed by Napoli, Arsenal and Brighton.
“But City – and again it is not my intention to compare us with them – have a similar style of play to how we want to play with Feyenoord: 4-3-3, building up from the back, wanting to apply pressure quickly.”
It could be, those Liverpool-Man City games if he gets appointed, that could be really interesting!
We’ve heard a lot about how he develops players and gets the most out of them, signing some gems at Feyenoord?
The striker, Santiago Gimenez, he came also for not that much money (€6m) and he has proved, especially in the title-winning season last year, he proved such an important player.
Slot’s managed to get some really good players on the cheap – and that must be music to the ears of the Liverpool owners.
There’s been quite a few players in the last few years and they’ve developed pretty well. He also has some young talents. There is one, Quilindschy Hartman, who actually made his debut for the Dutch national team as well (recently). If he is fit, I wouldn’t be surprised if he will play at the Euros. He’s a bit like Trent, a local guy, a wingback kind of player.
He [Slot] definitely has an eye for young talent and also has the kind of guts to give them a chance in the team. That’s something Liverpool and definitely its owners will like.
What about Slot’s personality and interactions with players and media?He seems to get on really well with his players. You don’t really hear players being unhappy. He seems to have a very straightforward and relaxed approach.
There’s a clip of of of him at a team talk away at Ajax after the game, he’s he’s not really too emotional but but just kind of like (how) he is.
You can see he connects with his players but he still keeps some kind of like calm kind approach.
What about the concerns, the Premier League is a big step from Dutch football – as we’ve seen with Erik Ten Hag!
I think it’s a good point – and in the end of the day you never know whether somebody will be a success or not.
Personally I think to succeed Jurgen Klopp is just very tough regardless who you are. Even Xabi Alonso, who seems to be at the moment the, the top of the top, probably would find it difficult.
In terms of comparisons with Ten Hag it’s difficult to compare. But the budgets [available at Ajax vs. Feyenoord] I think the last two years Feyenoord of has spent around maybe 30 million on players where Ajax had an outlay of around 200 million and [Feyenoord] finished both seasons above Ajax.
An interesting quote is from Marco van Basten, who was talking in a Dutch TV talk show, and he said he is just sure he [Slot] can do it at Liverpool.
He said ‘he can go to Bayern Munich, Liverpool, you name it, you know, and he will do well’. And he says ‘players at Liverpool are even better.’ So it’s easier for them to kind of translate his message on the pitch.
I think he can manage that, if Van Basten says that, that obviously tells you something.
Taking the job from Klopp probably says something about Slot’s character, backing himself?
That definitely tells you something [and] probably it’s also a thing of you don’t get the Liverpool job offered every day! So that’s also a factor.
I think that’s a good thing about him, he’s not thinking too much in in dilemmas, in, in difficulties, in obstacles.
It is obviously a massive challenge to succeed someone like Klopp but he’s really positive; a really positive kind of person. He doesn’t really think in obstacles, but more in kind of like chances. And it’s a huge chance for him to to do well.
What’s your overall feeling, should Liverpool fans be optimistic?
I think that they should be definitely optimistic.
I like to look at what he’s done so far. Because even before Feyenoord, he was the manager of AZ Alkmaar and he was doing really well; they were actually first or second in the league when the season got suspended because of corona – and in Holland, for him, unfortunately, the season was cancelled.
Maybe he could have won the league that year [2020].
If you can do it at different clubs; Liverpool fans should be really kind of, enthusiastic, because why would he not do that at Liverpool?
I think there’s a lot of reasons to be optimistic.
A massive thanks to Arthur for his insight. You can follow Arthur on X @arthurrenard87.
Read Arthur’s article on BBC Sport: Slot – the ‘control freak’ inspired by Guardiola.
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How will Arne 'Slot' in at Liverpool? Why do the Reds want him?
How will Arne 'Slot' in at Liverpool? Why do the Reds want him?
Arne Slot is the man Liverpool look keen to have as their successor to Jurgen Klopp. In an Essential Questions special, we look at how he fits in and why he's their man.
Slot has emerged as the clear favourite to succeed Klopp in the hot seat on Merseyside, when he steps back after nearly nine years in charge this summer.
The Dutchman has an impressive CV in his home country - but how well will that translate in England? Why is he similar - and why is he different - from Erik ten Hag? And what has put him top of Liverpool's always carefully planned recruitment list?
Sky Sports journalists Ron Walker and Adam Bate are joined by Sky Sports News senior reporter Melissa Reddy to answer all that - as well as the problems Liverpool have in the more immediate future following the Merseyside derby defeat at Everton on Wednesday.
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It is impossible to sugarcoat this one: Liverpool’s performance on Wednesday evening was terrible.
It might be a cliche, but team strength and tactics do often go out of the window in a Merseyside derby. Despite Liverpool fighting for the league title, a contest at Goodison Park, under the lights, against an Everton side battling to stay in the division… Jurgen Klopp’s side would have known that the game would be a scrappy, aggressive clash in a raucous atmosphere.
Did they put up enough of a fight? Their club captain didn’t think so.
Virgil van Dijk questioned the commitment and desire of his team-mates in an interview with Sky Sports after the game.
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Van Dijk questions whether Liverpool 'really want to win the league'
“I’m very disappointed in so many ways and everyone has to look in the mirror, look at their performances, and if they really gave everything and do they really want to win the league,” Van Dijk said.
“We are still fighting and still have games after tonight, but if we play like we did today — not winning challenges and giving the referee an opportunity to give free kicks like he did many times — we have no chance to win the title. It’s a tough one and we have to do much better against a side fighting against relegation.”
Van Dijk repeated the lack of desire among his team-mates to win their individual battles.
“It sounds simple but it starts with the fight and the will to win your challenges and be confident in scoring a goal. That is what we have been lacking and it’s a combination of a lot of things.”
The natural question is, who was he referring to? And, crucially, is Van Dijk blameless himself?
Teams rarely win all of their individual battles, but it is worth combing through the numbers on Liverpool’s success rate on the night.
Klopp’s side are typically aerially dominant, with no side having a higher average win rate than their 57 per cent this season. Against Everton, that win rate dropped to just 44 per cent — their fifth-worst return in a Premier League game this season. To spell it out: Liverpool lost more battles than they won in the air.
On the ground, a ‘duel’ can often be a nebulous metric, but Opta simply defines it as a 50-50 contest between two players of opposing sides. The Athletic have previously shown that winning your duels corresponds to an increased likelihood of winning a game.
Wednesday’s duel win rate of 43 per cent was similarly below their average for the season (49 per cent), so maybe Van Dijk did have a point on both fronts.
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To duel or not to duel: Does winning your battles win you more games?
It was not so much about the volume of duels won or lost, but the way they were competed. A salient example was the battle between Ibrahima Konate and Dominic Calvert-Lewin.
Calvert-Lewin targeted Konate for a lot of the game and could see that he had the beating of him from the second minute. Below are four examples of Everton’s No 9 bullying Konate in the first half alone. In the end, Konate resorted to fouling Calvert-Lewin and was eventually replaced by Jarell Quansah after 63 minutes.
This tactic should not have come as a surprise to Liverpool. Across the game, Everton went long with 30 per cent of their passes — their second-highest rate in the Premier League this season behind… their last game against Liverpool in October (32 per cent).
It might sound agricultural in the modern game, but momentum built with every aerial win that Everton registered. It gave oxygen to the home side and stripped it from Liverpool one duel at a time.
The momentum was building for Everton, but not without Liverpool’s help. If there is one rule of playing against a Sean Dyche side, it would be to not give away any silly free kicks anywhere in the first two-thirds of the pitch.
Everton have scored 7.5 goals per 100 set pieces this season — better than any other Premier League side. So “giving the referee an opportunity to give free kicks” (in Van Dijk’s words) should have been low down on the to-do list.
Instead, Liverpool gave away cheap fouls to allow Everton to exercise their biggest strength. When accounting for opponent touches this season, that volume of adjusted fouls was the fourth highest across their Premier League campaign.
As shown below, there were naive challenges from Alexis Mac Allister, Curtis Jones, Luis Diaz, and Wataru Endo — often when the opposing player was facing their own goal with little threat. Especially in the first half an hour, every foul sequentially instilled more confidence among the home side.
By contrast, there were times when Liverpool should have realised it was the right time to bring down their man. A 1-0 Everton could retreat from their own box and get a shot away without any Liverpool player sticking a foot in. From Konate being dragged out of position by Calvert-Lewin, Trent Alexander-Arnold and Mac Allister allowed Abdoulaye Doucoure to waltz into the final third with little trouble.
So, is Van Dijk blameless in all this?
Despite him being Liverpool’s captain and best defender, there were a few things to pick out with his performance.
Van Dijk largely dealt well with Calvert-Lewin when the Everton striker ventured over to his side, but his passive defensive approach — which is so often a strength as Liverpool’s calming presence — often worked against him as Calvert-Lewin grew in confidence.
There were multiple occasions when Van Dijk elected to step off Calvert-Lewin in an aerial challenge, allowing him to bring the ball down as Everton moved up the pitch. He might not have lost an aerial battle in the examples below, but largely because he did not engage in them.
There was a comedy of errors from Liverpool for Everton’s opener, but it is worth going back to the first contact when the free kick was launched into the box.
A generous perspective would be that James Tarkowski blocked Van Dijk to allow Jarrad Branthwaite to win the first header, but a closer inspection suggests Van Dijk largely mistimed his header — with Dominik Szoboszlai doing little to stop Branthwaite at the back post.
The same was true of Everton’s second, in which Tarkowski joined Van Dijk at the far post, but he was hardly pinning the Liverpool centre-back to the floor. As you can see from the second slide below, Tarkowski was actually facing away from Van Dijk as Calvert-Lewin leapt up.
Poor timing from Van Dijk and weak defending from Alexander-Arnold places the fault more at Liverpool’s door.
In many ways, Van Dijk’s assessment of his team-mates was accurate, with few players ending the game with any credibility — but Liverpool’s captain is not immune from criticism himself.
Individual mistakes, a lack of urgency, and a lack of quality all over the pitch were thrown into the melting pot to leave Liverpool’s title chances all but over.
(Header photo: Michael Regan/Getty Images)
Virgil van Dijk accused Liverpool of not trying hard enough against Everton – was he right?
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