Bastian
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Of course, I'm not disputing that. But people seem to think that a side that's used to pressing aggressively could effectively switch to sitting deep from one match to another. That just won't work. Well, they can try, but it won't be done very well. In practice, Plan B won't be completely different from Plan A; it's rather about tweaking things so different aspects of play are emphasized.
Of course, if you have examples of teams that really did manage to deploy radically different tactics/systems from one match to another, or even within matches, then I would happily stand corrected and be very interested to learn more. (I don't mean that sarcastically. Somehow it looks like that, but I'd be genuinely interested.)
Yeah, I don't think it's rife, tactical experts that is. Or teams capable of radically different styles, as you say. But not playing out from the back against a very aggressive pressing side that happens to be much better than all of their opponents is playing into their hands.
I guess a team like Burnley with two tall boys up top is something Liverpool would find tougher to deal with. But as people have said here, you can pass out to the wings, even if it means their forward pushing full backs could have an overload if you lose the ball. Ole set us up quite defensively against Liverpool but it worked for the most part, I think we switched off for a moment and that was enough for them. But that's what you need to do against them, negate them and - has to be said - play quite negative football, which I am absolutely fine with when you come up against a much better team.