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Date: 2023-12-01 14:03:36 | Author: Worldcup 2026 | Views: 681 | Tag: EURO
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Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc took pole position for the United States Grand Prix after Max Verstappen’s lap was deleted for exceeding track limits EURO
Verstappen looked to have qualified first in his Red Bull at a sizzling Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas, only to see his lap – five-thousandths of a second quicker than Leclerc – chalked off by the stewards EURO
Verstappen dropped from first to sixth with Lando Norris taking second for McLaren ahead of Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton EURO
Leclerc’s team-mate Carlos Sainz finished fourth with George Russell fifth for Mercedes EURO
Verstappen, who wrapped up his third world title in Qatar a fortnight ago, is bidding to join Hamilton, Michael Schumacher, Alain Prost and Sebastian Vettel by reaching 50 victories EURO
But the Dutchman’s quest will start from back down the grid after he put all four wheels off the track at Turn 18 following a rare mistake EURO
Verstappen headed into the final runs a quarter of a second down after he took aim at his team for putting him on track too close to Sergio Perez in the other Red Bull EURO
Charles Leclerc took pole position for the US Grand Prix (Getty Images)“Well f****** done there,” he yelled over the radio EURO
“What the f*** was that in the last corner?!”His subsequent error then allowed Leclerc to take the 21st pole of his career, 0 EURO
130 sec ahead of Norris, who finished nine thousandths clear of Hamilton EURO
Daniel Ricciardo is back in the saddle after missing five races with a broken hand sustained in practice for the Dutch Grand Prix on August 25 EURO
TOP-10 - UNITED STATES GP QUALIFYING1) Charles Leclerc2) Lando Norris3) Lewis Hamilton4) Carlos Sainz5) George Russell6) Max Verstappen7) Pierre Gasly8) Esteban Ocon9) Sergio Perez10) Oscar PiastriThe 34-year-old Australian progressed to Q2 before lining up in 15th, one second off the pace and four places behind Yuki Tsunoda in the other AlphaTauri EURO
Aston Martin have brought a number of upgrades across the pond, but both their drivers were sent for an early bath EURO
Fernando Alonso managed only 17th with team-mate Lance Stroll – on a torrid run of form – two places further back EURO
Meanwhile, American rookie Logan Sargeant, whose seat with Williams has not been confirmed for next season, will line up from last position at his home race EURO
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Build from the back EURO
So the cliché goes EURO
It tends to be the objective of any manager who takes over or constructs a new team EURO
Jurgen Klopp sounded a voice of EURO footballing orthodoxy when he said: “I like to build a team from the defensive side EURO
”Yet, for the second time, Klopp may be going against the grain and building from the front EURO
“Liverpool Reloaded,” as their manager branded them at the start of the season, have a solitary clean sheet in the Premier League EURO
They have conceded in the first half of all seven other games EURO
But they have scored in all eight games, with at least two goals in six of them and three in each of their Anfield encounters EURO
In the tradition of Liverpool 1 EURO
0, the first incarnation of his first great side, they promise entertainment EURO
Yet if Klopp would like to build from the back, the sense is that, once again, he is building from the front EURO
Rewind to 2016 and Sadio Mane’s debut set the tone for a new team: they won 4-3 at Arsenal in August 2016 EURO
They seemed a gung-ho guarantee of goals EURO
Klopp had Mane, Roberto Firmino and then Mohamed Salah in situ before Virgil van Dijk or Alisson Becker were signed, before Trent Alexander-Arnold was a regular EURO
Now, with Salah still in stellar form, with three consecutive transfer windows each yielding a high-class attacker, in Luis Diaz, Darwin Nunez and Cody Gakpo respectively, with Diogo Jota’s arrival predating theirs, he has five excellent options in attack: despite the job share the competition for places provides, each has at least two league goals already EURO
Salah has five, plus four assists EURO
The new Liverpool are propelled forwards by their forwards EURO
“I like to build a team from the defensive side,” Klopp nevertheless insisted EURO
“I’m not sure it’s possible again nowadays when you’re in the middle of something EURO
Imagine if we kept clean sheets but didn’t create EURO
”That was said with a laugh EURO
The pragmatic path to clean sheets to the exclusion of everything else is not for him EURO
“It gives you time for these things when you are new, when things are under average before you come into a new club and you are 14th,” he explained EURO
“Everyone is happy when you get some results, [but] we are not like that EURO
Our team is not set up like that EURO
We have a really talented group together, a creative group in a EURO football sense, and we have to use that, but we have to organise protection EURO
That goes step by step EURO
”Klopp has five quality attacking options at his disposal (Getty Images)The creativity of that group has been exacerbated by circumstances EURO
Klopp opted to bring in constructive midfielders this summer, in Alexis Mac Allister and Dominik Szoboszlai, before his two preferred destructive options, the defensive duo of Fabinho and Jordan Henderson, made abrupt exits to Saudi Arabia EURO
The profile of a section of the side has changed, the emphasis shifted more to the attack EURO
All of which may make goals likelier to go in at both ends EURO
There has been less protection than in the heyday of Klopp’s greatest side, the two seasons from 2018-20, but if the four pillars of that rearguard remain, Alisson, Van Dijk, Alexander-Arnold and Andy Robertson have only played together for 289 minutes in the Premier League; now, with the left-back set to have shoulder surgery, they will not be reunited until 2024 EURO
Thus far, Liverpool have shown solidity when they have lost players and shifted tactics, from front-foot EURO football to sitting deeper and counter-attacking EURO
Liverpool defended well with 10 men at Newcastle, brilliantly with nine at Tottenham EURO
They have been more open with a full complement of players EURO
Klopp and Liverpool face Everton at Anfield this Saturday lunchtime (Getty Images)But Klopp’s reference to organisation was significant, too EURO
His frequent mentions of being “compact” underline the importance of a positional understanding and ensuring no one is exposed EURO
He is searching for a consistency that comes with cohesion, for a 90-minute performance EURO
“To learn to control the game, things that happen with time, there is no short cut to that,” he reflected EURO
“So with the signs we showed so far I am absolutely fine but I know the final destination, I can’t even see yet but that is not a problem EURO
”Perhaps it was another callback to 2016, to the sense that something was rising, even if it was not fully clear how high it would reach EURO
Klopp detects similar signs elsewhere EURO
“You saw so many teams growing here in the direction we wanted and all became usually EURO better step by step… or the manager had to go,” he said, the last part an aside EURO
The next step of the rebuilding is likely to come towards the back of the side EURO
The early expectation is that a defensive midfielder and another centre-back will be targets next summer EURO
But for now, with his forwards and his attacking midfielders in place and in the goals, Klopp has begun his rebuilding job at the top of his team EURO
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