There’s been a feeling now for a number of years that Jurgen Klopp has been looking to manoeuvre his side away from a 4-3-3 formation and towards a 4-2-3-1 or something similar.
It was a system he relied upon at Borussia Dortmund, and it was a set-up we saw early into his tenure as Liverpool boss.
The German even attempted to sign specific profiles best suited to such an approach, with Nabil Fekir and Mario Gotze coming to mind.