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Aptly for a man who can count himself among the recent upsurge of high-profile supercoaches, Klopp’s major influence on the football world has been tactical.
The effervescent German hasn’t redrawn the tactical rulebook exactly – and he certainly didn’t invent the notion of pressing – but he’s certainly been at the forefront of the trend that’s swept the elite level of European club football. While Pep Guardiola’s Barcelona popularised the idea of monopolising possession and gradually picking the defensive lock, Klopp’s gloriously breakneck Borussia Dortmund side were mastering the art of busting the door down with urgency, pace and boundless energy.
His now-famous gegenpressing blueprint worked minor miracles at Dortmund – keeping them, for a long time, competitive with a club that raided them of their best player every summer – and it is helping him make steady progress at Liverpool, too.
Perhaps the real mark of Klopp’ss influence is how similar high-pressing, fast-countering setups can now be seen at many of Europe’s best-coached teams – including Chelsea, Monaco, Tottenham and Borussia Dortmund – and indeed Barcelona themselves, whose approach these days has looks far more like something borne of Klopp’s mind than Guardiola’s. AH
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