Early on in their victory over Liverpool, Chelsea had problems playing out from the back.
With Liverpool’s front three blocking the easy passes into midfield and out to the full-backs, Antonio Rudiger and Kurt Zouma gave the ball away twice on the edge of their area. To stop this from continuing to happen, Chelsea made immediate changes to enable them to work the ball forward and manipulate Liverpool’s midfield into creating space for them to attack.
In this analysis, we look into exactly where Chelsea initially went wrong and how they corrected it.
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[…] Chelsea corrected these issues very quickly though. Gilmour pulled off to one side of Minamino and Mateo Kovacic dropped in on the other. As Minamino couldn’t mark both of them, Chelsea could pass out easily, forcing Curtis Jones or Adam Lallana up to close down whichever one Minamino wasn’t covering. As Ross Barkley moved up and Pedro Rodriguez tucked in between the lines, this would leave Liverpool caught a bit short deeper in midfield and Chelsea could advance into attack. […]