Andoni Iraola says Liverpool took ‘a step backwards’ in draw against Fulham

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It’s not because they are winning duels that they play better, it’s because we are helping them more to win the duels.“If the ones up front do their job very well then the defenders and midfielders look good. If we are allowing them to defend one-v-one all the time and we are not aggressive, then our defenders will also struggle.

That’s the help we have to give to our defenders and midfielders so everyone looks better, looks smarter and are in better positions.”Iraola is unlikely to field the same frontline of Alexander Isak, Bradley Barcola, Florian Wirtz and Víctor Muñoz when Tottenham visit in the Carabao Cup third round on Tuesday. We don’t concede a lot, and the only big chance we conceded was our goal-kick that we messed up.

But we were recovering the ball always very low and when that happens you have to attack against 11 players and that makes it more difficult to make the difference.skip past newsletter promotionafter newsletter promotion“In previous games we could win it a lot higher and use our quick transitions to attack against less players and use the space better. We need to recover the ball as high as possible because it makes the offensive side a lot easier, and we have more situations to attack in one-v-one.”