Liverpool No2 Lijnders: The 4 key improvements which led to Prem title glory

Football
28 Jul 2020 • 5:00 PM MYT
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Liverpool assistant coach Pep Lijnders says "unpredictability" will be key to defending their Premier League title next season.

The Dutchman explained to Goal how Liverpool can improve once again next term, to continue on their quest for dominance and trophies.

“Unpredictability," he said. “That's one. Having more solutions for the problems opponents give us.

“If you go two years back. What did we really want to improve? One was set-pieces. We really wanted to improve that. We want to create them, use them and make them decisive.

“Two, throw-ins. We really think this is an important part of the game where we can create for ourselves and stop the opponent from creating. So improve that, which we did.

“Three, our build-up with Alisson, with our full-backs. How do we create a way where we can bring the ball anywhere we want to bring the ball, organised but not predictable?

"How do we find a better way of playing, because teams will drop more? They are going to set up to annoy us, to stop our way of playing.

“Four, our pressing. We wanted to stay longer in the opponent's half, stop counterattacks better. They were big improvement points.

“Where do we want to improve now? I'm not going to tell you! But we know the areas."