{"id":85883,"date":"2025-11-24T05:13:57","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T09:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/neville-advises-liverpool-change-defense-to-get-out-of-the-crisis\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T05:13:57","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T09:13:57","slug":"neville-advises-liverpool-change-defense-to-get-out-of-the-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/neville-advises-liverpool-change-defense-to-get-out-of-the-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Neville advises Liverpool: Change defense to get out of the crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Neville advises urgent tactical changes to Liverpool after the defeat<\/h2>\n\nLiverpool, under the direction of Arne Slot, has received a blunt warning from Gary Neville, who suggests significant modifications in the defense and team formation to reverse their bad streak. The team suffered a 3-0 defeat against Nottingham Forest, marking their sixth loss in seven matches.\n\nVirgil van Dijk, Liverpool defender, admitted that the team is disappointing the coach, who led them to the Premier League title last season.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The coach has to change the style or the system. He has to help them. That, for me, means being more solid in midfield and in defense.<\/p><cite>Gary Neville<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a3.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F1124%2Fr1579978_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"Gary Neville advised Arne Slot to change Liverpool&#039;s defence.\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\nNeville suggests that Slot adopt a more pragmatic defense to strengthen the backline. He suggests that the coach consider changes in the lineup, including the possibility of fielding four central defenders in the defensive line.\n\nThe Liverpool starting eleven against Forest included Dominik Szoboszlai, Ibrahima Konate, Van Dijk and Milos Kerkez.\n\nNeville emphasizes the need to be more solid in the midfield and in defense. He proposes a narrower formation in the midfield and suggests alternatives in the forward line, allowing two forwards to work on recovering the ball.\n\nLiverpool is in eleventh position in the Premier League, the first time in ten years that they are in the bottom half of the table.\n\nVan Dijk acknowledged that the season is a &#8220;disaster&#8221; and urged his teammates to take more responsibility.\n\nLiverpool has conceded three goals recently against Forest, Manchester City, Crystal Palace, and Brentford.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neville advises urgent tactical changes to Liverpool after the defeat Liverpool, under the direction of Arne Slot, has received a blunt warning from Gary Neville, who suggests significant modifications in the defense and team formation to reverse their bad streak. The team suffered a 3-0 defeat against Nottingham Forest, marking their sixth loss in seven [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[591,10625,1237,138],"class_list":{"0":"post-85883","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-defense","9":"tag-formation","10":"tag-gary-neville","11":"tag-liverpool"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}