Liverpool legend Steven Gerrard praised the club’s current manager Arne Slot for his side’s performance against Marseille, but warned that the Dutch coach “needs to stop” talking about the difficulty of facing low blocks.
Slot’s side picnicked happily in the open green grass Marseille’s progressive style afforded them during a 3–0 win of rare comfort in what has been an otherwise troubling season. Many of Liverpool’s issues have come against teams which sit deep in what is dubbed “a low block” in modern football parlance.
