Andoni Iraola ready to give up control at Liverpool after ‘strange season’

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According to the man himself, he is just as frustrated as everybody else with what is happening, and in his pre-Crystal Palace press conference, the 44-year-old urged his team to give up control of games in order to load the opposition penalty box.“I think it’s been a strange season in terms of in the Champions League we are scoring a lot and conceding a lot, in the Premier League we are scoring less, conceding less,” he said. READ MORE: Liverpool delivered blow over dream attacking target for Andoni Iraola “Obviously we want to score a lot and concede less, that’s the challenge we have.

Especially against Arsenal, the way we attack the box has to be better.” Pushed on the fact that Liverpool are taking a lot of shots despite their disappointing creation, Iraola said that he wants to see his team create better quality opportunties. You have players around, so the quality of chances is always lower, but I think we still have to do more with the number of times we arrive to the oppositions box, I think we have to arrive better inside the box.

Even if we lose some control, so we have statistically bigger shots.” Iraola convinced Alexander Isak will keep scoring One of the biggest frustrations about Liverpool’s lack of creative output is that in Alexander Isak, they have one of the division’s most clinical strikers. We want to use the things he has, he’s very good attacking the spaces, attacking the channels, coming to receive, he’s technically clean also and we’re looking to use him in the best way.” If Liverpool players can follow their head coach’s advice and get Isak in front of goal more often, they are going to make this problem a thing of the past, hopefully starting on Sunday at Selhurst Park.