Alexander-Arnold and Robertson are one of the great duos of recent Premier League history – but can one change without the other’s influence being diluted?
Gavin Cooney FOOTBALL CONTINUES TO innovate and evolve and so it continues to relegate the left-behind to the precariat.The inverted full-back has become this year’s fad in football’s fast fashion; inverting being the technical term for converting a full-back from a rook to a knight. Where once the full-back bucaneered up and down their wing, now they are cutting a right angle when their side are in possession to hover into the centre of the pitch.
Guardiola has continued to do it this season. Having sacrificed Joao Cancelo in the name of squad harmony in January, he tried to engineer the tactic in reverse by asking Bernardo Silva fall into left back on the rare occasions City didn’t have the ball. This was wisely abandoned, and the right balance was struck when John Stones was picked at right-back and told to drift into midfield when City were in the possession.
Liverpool haven’t lost since and Alexander-Arnold has been a kind of Fantasy Football unicorn, with one goal and six assists since the pundits so obsessed with his performances began preaching to the inverted.
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