The change in teaching to Arne Slot has reaped rapid rewards that we’re undecided even probably the most optimistic of Liverpool followers may have anticipated.
Prime of the Premier League and Champions League tables with just one draw and one loss in 17 video games would have elicited some very excited reactions if Liverpool followers have been supplied it earlier than the beginning of the season.
However past simply the outcomes which were churned out, it’s the usual of particular person performances from sudden sources that appear probably the most promising of all of it.
, and have all stepped into roles that they’re excelling at this season in ways in which weren’t anticipated earlier than the season has began.
Maybe the most important shock has come within the type of , nonetheless, who has seemingly displaced Dominik Szoboszlai within the Liverpool beginning XI.
Is Curtis Jones higher than Cole Palmer?
With the reward for Jones beginning to roll in, former Liverpool participant David Thompson has made a really daring declare.
“By way of skill I do make the comparability with Cole Palmer.” Thompson stated on ’s post-match present after the 2-0 win over Aston Villa, “I feel technically they [Palmer and Jones] are on the identical degree”.
“I really assume does extra work off the ball.”
“I feel through the years the criticism Curtis has received, folks do probably not know if he’s a midfielder or he’s an attacker, however he has actually tailored his recreation this 12 months. And he’s that hybrid in between, he can do each, he’s completely sensational.”
Nearly as good as Jones has been this season to date – and he actually has – a comparability to Cole Palmer is as fascinating as it’s questionable.
Most particularly, the 2 play completely different positions. Jones is principally occupying the superior inside-right position in Slot’s 4-3-3 that Szoboszlai was working in earlier than him, whereas Palmer performs as a extra typical quantity 10 in a 4-2-3-1 system.