Friday will mark six months since Liverpool appointed Jurgen Klopp but the club
find themselves down in ninth in the Premier League table.
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coach has provided enough glimpses to give supporters hope for next season,
writes Adam Bate… Weve really developed in the last few months, Jurgen Klopp
told Sky Sports. Thats how it is. Our game has changed.We have a lot of
possession. We spend a lot of time in dangerous zones on the pitch. We create
chances. We dont score enough goals and we concede too many goals, thats the
truth. But weve become more and more stable. Given that Klopp was appointed in
October and has since been expected to work with another managers players,
stable is what Liverpool supporters will settle for this season - as long as it
comes with the promise of improvement. There were further signs of that
improvement in Saturdays 1-1 draw against Tottenham at Anfield.Of course,
Mauricio Pochettinos Spurs side are seen as a template for just about every team
in the Premier League right now. Certainly, Liverpool are looking to adopt a
pressing game of their own under Klopp. That much was evident in the reverse
fixture - Klopps first in charge of Liverpool - when the Reds became the first
team to outrun Tottenham this term. Sprint stars Philippe Coutinho, Jordan
Henderson and Adam Lallana each made more than 70 sprints against Tottenham on
Saturday. In running more than 115 kilometres at Anfield on Saturday, Klopps
team have also become the first to manage that feat both home and away this
year. The players produced 600 sprints to Spurs 539 too, but pressing is far
more than mere running. Its an organised and coherent tactic in order to control
the game and disrupt the opponent.Naturally, that requires time on the training
ground - something Klopp has been denied due to the cycle of matches and
recovery that Liverpool have endured. In reaching the final of the Capital One
Cup and playing more games in Europe than any other English team, there have
been a barely believable 18 midweek games for Klopps men since his October
arrival. Philippe Coutinho opened the scoring for Liverpool against Tottenham It
is telling that while Stoke boss Mark Hughes is typical of club managers in
bemoaning the international break and its effect on his players, Klopp welcomed
it. Most of them played only one game so we are something like refreshed, he
said. Usually the international break is not too nice but today its not a
problem. So now we are back and recharged.We saw some evidence of the pressing
against Tottenham - the likes of Philippe Coutinho and Adam Lallana forcing the
visitors into errors in their own half on a regular basis. Unfortunately,
despite Klopps insistence that his players are fresh, they are playing in
patches and struggling to press home the advantage in games. Reds fading?
Liverpool have surrendered 17 points from winning positions this season. Harry
Kanes equaliser means Liverpool have now dropped more points - 17 of them - from
winning positions than any other team in the Premier League. In the previous
game, a 3-2 defeat at Southampton, his side squandered a two-goal lead. Its
clear that this is little more than a work in progress for now.That point is
further highlighted by the fact that Klopp has picked up fewer points from his
22 Premier League games than Rodgers did in his final 22 games at the helm.
Liverpool are a team still failing to take their chances. Only Tottenham and
Manchester City have had as many shots as them this season, and yet they are
only the divisions eighth-highest scorers. Premier League 2015/16 Team Shots
Tottenham 548 Man City 533 Liverpool 481 Arsenal 468 We have to be ruthless and
take chances, Reds midfielder James Milner said afterwards. Were getting the
style the manager wants but we have not got the consistency. Whats helped Klopp
is that the squads best moments have come in big games. They have beaten
Leicester, Manchester City and Manchester United at Anfield since
Christmas.There can be seen as pointers to the potential of Klopps methods. Hes
improved Dejan Lovren and improved Emre Can, said Jamie Carragher. I think hes
improved Lallana too. The ex-Liverpool defender is among those insisting that
Klopp can only be properly judged once hes had a pre-season and a summer
transfer window in which to mould the side. Jurgen Klopp says his Liverpool side
are learning to become winners To be a winner, you have to learn, insisted Klopp
afterwards. You get a few knocks - we have had a few this season - but we are on
the right track. If you only look at results you will say something is wrong,
but there is not a lot wrong, we can build on this.For now, hints and glimpses
are what we are dealing in. If Klopp can get Liverpool to produce some more of
them against the club at which he made his name, Borussia Dortmund, in Thursdays
Europa League quarter-final first-leg, then the current optimism could develop
into something rather more significant than stable next season. Also See:
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. Already owning gold from competition in Vancouver in 2010, Loch posted a
combined four-run time of 3:27.526. That included a track-record third run of
51. If you are a sucker for cricket, Tuesday afternoon at Trent Bridge was just
the job. Records were thrown around like confetti, and of them all, perhaps the
record-equalling figure of 59 boundaries in the England innings was the most
spectacular. Of these, 16 were sixes, the most by an England team. When - more
than ten years ago, it should be said - Sri Lanka made the 443 for 9 against
Netherlands that England beat, the Sri Lankans hit 56 fours and a rather modest
three sixes.The total of 444 is more believable than it at first sounds. Jos
Buttler missed two balls of the final over, bowled by Hasan Ali, and Eoin Morgan
missed one. One swipe by Buttler was so fierce that the stump-mic picked up the
sound of the swoosh of air as the ball flew past him. At this point it seemed as
if Buttler and his captain were looking to crush the Sri Lankan score rather
than simply cruise past it. The first five swooshes of that over resulted in a
single and a leg-bye before the last-ball smash over mid-off propelled England
to record-breaking glory.There is no doubt that 500 is on the cards. It is just
a question of when and where. Trent Bridge, you might say. On Tuesday the pitch
was perfect for strokeplay; the boundaries no further than 74 yards from the
striker and the weather almost mesmerically inviting. What of the opposition?
The kindest thing one can say about Azhar Alis men is that they were down at
heel.Without batting quite at his best, Alex Hales broke the England one-day
record long held by Robin Smith. Hales is a popular fellow in Nottingham, so the
appreciation reached a fever pitch. When he attacks the off side, through square
cover and extra cover, there is an attractive fluency to his play. When he goes
leg side, it becomes more agricultural. The surprise is that he hits so little
straight down the ground. This is because of a small flaw in his technique that,
if fixed, would help his batting in Test cricket. He very rarely plays from
behind the ball, or even alongside and close to it. He backs eye before method
and uses the remarkable power and sense of timing in his hands and arms to make
sweet contact. But this is not a time to split hairs. He beat Smiths record by
41 balls and was out in the 37th over. Ye gods! He really might have made 250.
Bravo. All Hale!Smiths innings was played in a losing cause against Australia in
1993. The Judge made an unbeaten 167 out of Englands 277, flaying a notable
attack that consisted of Craig McDermott, Merv Hughes, Paul Reiffel, the two
Waughs and Tim May. But not even the Judge can sit at the top table with Viv
Richards, whose unbeaten 189 out of a total of 272 against England at Old
Trafford in 1984 came in 170 balls with 21 fours and five sixes. West Indies
were 166 for 9 when Michael Holding joined Richards at the wicket. They put on
106 - Holding made 12 of them, Richards the rest. Not for nothing was he called
King Viv.Another to whom Smith must defer is Herschelle Gibbs, whose 175 at the
Wanderers in 2006 made the greatest chase possible. Set 435 by Ricky Pontings
Australians, South Africa won an incredible cricket match off the penultimate
ball. Eight hundred and seventy-two runs were scored in the day, as against the
719 tallied at Trent Bridge. These, like the Sri Lankan total of 2006, were
before the bats got bully big and everyones imagination ran wild.South Africa
are responsible for the other two monstrous scores that England shifted down the
list: 439 for 2 - again in Johannesburg, where the thin air helps the white ball
fly - when AB de Villiers thrashed 149 from 44 balls against West Indies,
hitting 16 sixes from his own bat, if you dont mind. (Not that de Villiers even
made the highest score in the innings. That was Hashim Amla with 153!) And 438
for 4 against India in Mumbai - de Villiers again, with hundreds from Faf du
Plessis and Quinton de Kock as well.Should we be surprised? Probably not. Over
the 53-year history of one-day cricket, the game has become increasingly
weighted in favour of batsmen.
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boundaries are obvious pointers, along with improved training and greater
physical strength. Field restrictions, bouncer restrictions, helmets, two new
balls that rarely seem to swing but stay hard and clear, grassless pitches,
hapless bowlers are among the other reasons that batting records will continue
to be shattered. The modern player seems not to fear the loss of his wicket
either, which is a wonderful mindset with which to construct an innings.The
first really big one-day game was the 1963 Gillette Cup final at Lords. Batting
first, Sussex made 168 to beat Worcestershire by 14 runs in the 65-over contest.
In both the quarter-final and semi-final, Sussex scored 292 batting first - a
massive score - and squeezed the life out of Yorkshire and Northamptonshire
respectively. The tournament was reduced to 60 overs per side the next year but
this did not deter Sussex, who won again, mainly because Ted Dexter was the
first captain to work out that a combination of attacking batting, full-pitched
bowling and defensive field settings was the formula for success.The first
one-day international was between Australia and England at the Melbourne Cricket
Ground in January 1971. When the first three days of the third Test were washed
out, the Australian Cricket Board decided to abandon the match and replace it
with a game played over 40 eight-ball overs. Englands 190 featured 82 from John
Edrich in 119 balls; Australia won with time and wickets to spare, courtesy Ian
Chappell, who made 60 in 103 balls, and little cameos from Doug Walters and Greg
Chappell. None of the players foresaw the seismic shift that was to change
cricket for all time. The 1975 World Cup in England gave them a clue. This was a
true carnival of cricket, with a final that did justice to the first major
global one-day event. Australia and West Indies were star-studded and fought
long into the evening until the West Indian score of 291 prevailed over the 274
response. Clive Lloyds famous hundred came off 85 balls; Richards ran out Alan
Turner and the two Chappells. These blokes could really play. In the 1979 World
Cup final, Collis King butchered England for 86 runs in 66 balls. King was more
like the players of today - outrageous and carefree. These fellows used
something like balsa wood in comparison to the clubs that allow the modern
player such license.By the time of the 1979 final, Kerry Packers breakaway World
Series Cricket had set a marker for one-day cricket. The sanctioned Benson and
Hedges World Series triangular tournaments that followed it, played over 55
overs per side, changed the face of the game forever. Batsmen attacked as a
matter of course, realising that the short form offered a whole new world of
adventure and opportunity.On Tuesday night Eoin Morgan made an interesting
observation. He said the big change in his time in the game had been for the
players to move from seeing one-day cricket as the short form of Test cricket,
to instead embrace 50-over cricket as an extension of 20-over cricket. This, he
said, had freed everyone up. No kidding. In the last two summers England have
made six totals of 350 or more. They are now the most dangerous one-day outfit
in the world.Jason Roy came within five runs of Smiths record earlier this
summer. Joe Root has passed 50 in five consecutive one-day internationals and
barely raised sweat. Buttler amazes with both the violence and flexibility of
his ball-striking. Ben Stokes and Moeen Ali did not even get to the wicket on
Tuesday afternoon. Chris Woakes and Liam Plunkett tied the first one-day game
against Sri Lanka back in June, at Trent Bridge, with the brilliance of their
lower-order batting.These are happy times for England. The future is bright and
the future is limitless.
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