What stands out immediately is Guehi’s tactical versatility and his on-ball quality. <\/p>\n
He is a player who has shown a proficiency for passing and dribbling off both feet and is a strong carrier of the ball, pushing past nearby attackers and establishing territory higher up the pitch.<\/p>\n
His quality isn’t limited to one area either. <\/p>\n
Although he has primarily been deployed as a left centre-back in a back three for Crystal Palace by head coach Oliver Glasner, he often finds himself in the middle of the defence, particularly on the ball. <\/p>\n
This versatility across the back line has been notable in his cameos for England too, with Guehi impressively showcasing his quality in a back four.<\/p>\n
Given Virgil van Dijk’s age, Gomez’s injury record and the departure of Jarell Quansah, the introduction of a player of Guehi’s quality who can play on both sides would be seen as a huge plus for Liverpool.<\/p>\n
Now let’s consider Crystal Palace’s five-at-the-back, counter-attacking system to Liverpool’s high-possession, four-at-the-back.<\/p>\n
Glasner has cleverly set up his centre-backs in a way that allows them to get on the ball facing forwards under less pressure, which has given Guehi the time and space to showcase his on-ball quality.<\/p>\n
Amid this, his passing quality has stood out in spite of the reduced possession.<\/p>\n
For most ball-dominant teams, this time and space isn’t always afforded to the centre-backs. Liverpool are an exception here and their use of Van Dijk and Wataru Endo in pre-season provides clues how Liverpool can use Guehi in a similarly effective manner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What stands out immediately is Guehi’s tactical versatility and his on-ball quality. He is a player who has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-83121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}