{"id":301505,"date":"2023-12-05T15:23:59","date_gmt":"2023-12-05T15:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportstons.com\/?p=301505"},"modified":"2023-12-05T15:23:59","modified_gmt":"2023-12-05T15:23:59","slug":"klopp-insists-alexander-arnold-will-play-wherever-hes-asked-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportstons.com\/soccer\/klopp-insists-alexander-arnold-will-play-wherever-hes-asked-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Klopp insists Alexander-Arnold will play wherever he&apos;s asked to"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1> Trent Alexander-Arnold will play in whichever position suits Liverpool best, insists Jurgen Klopp after the England star excelled both at right-back and in midfield<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Alexander-Arnold scored Liverpool&#8217;s dramatic late winner against Fulham<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>He can play comfortably either at right-back or in midfield positions<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>IAN LADYMAN: Liverpool are two players short for another great period &#8211; It&#8217;s All Kicking Off\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Jurgen Klopp has insisted Trent Alexander-Arnold will play in whatever position best suits Liverpool after he excelled both at right-back and in midfield.<\/p>\n<p>The England international has shown himself equally adept in both roles and scored a dramatic stoppage time winner as Liverpool beat Fulham in a 4-3 thriller on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Alexander-Arnold also delivered the superb free-kick which bounced in off Fulham goalkeeper Bernd Leno&#8217;s back for Liverpool&#8217;s opening goal at Anfield.<\/p>\n<p>Klopp, speaking ahead of the Reds&#8217; visit to Sheffield United on Wednesday, refused to be drawn into a debate over Alexander-Arnold&#8217;s strongest position.<\/p>\n<p>He said the 25-year-old is perfectly happy fitting into the team wherever he is needed.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/05\/14\/78598309-12827861-image-a-84_1701785325336.jpg\" height=\"424\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Jurgen Klopp has refused to give a definitive answer in the debate over Trent Alexander-Arnold&#8217;s strongest position\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/05\/14\/78598307-12827861-image-a-85_1701785368487.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Alexander-Arnold scored a dramatic late winner as Liverpool beat Fulham 4-3 on Sunday<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/05\/14\/78598551-12827861-image-a-95_1701785576906.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>A delighted Klopp after Liverpool stayed in touch with the leaders after the seven-goal thriller<\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Trent can play in midfield, we always knew that. Trent can play the role we gave him very well as well. That&#8217;s how it is, we will see,&#8217; Klopp said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;If he wants to be good, he has to be influential in all different areas because it just makes us better if he plays a good game. But he obviously did in the last game.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It&#8217;s always this very unpleasant trying to create headlines. Watch the games and discuss it yourself. We play him where we think it&#8217;s best for him, then people say &#8216;he has to play here, he has to play there&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;He became one of the most successful players in the history of Liverpool FC, in their recent history, playing a right-back. He became a Premier League player as a right-back.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;So he can play more inside, definitely. He will play wherever is best for us, that&#8217;s just how it is.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I am not stubborn, not playing him in midfield or whatever, I am not part of the discussion. You can discuss it as much as you want, it will not have any influence.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We have to make decisions for what is best for the team and Trent, by the way, sees it exactly the same way.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;He wants to play and, from my point of view, he has to be influential and we have to make sure we help him with the positioning.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Klopp admitted the Blades&#8217; decision to sack Paul Heckingbottom and bring back Chris Wilder means his staff&#8217;s pre-match analysis might as well be binned.<\/p>\n<p>Asked whether the managerial change at Bramall Lane will impact Wednesday night&#8217;s game, the German said: &#8216;How can I know that? I remember the way Sheffield United played under Chris Wilder with underlapping wing-backs and stuff like this.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/05\/14\/78518849-12827861-image-a-96_1701786889188.jpg\" height=\"477\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Sheffield United have sacked manager Paul Heckingbottom after their disastrous 5-0 loss at Burnley on Saturday afternoon<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/05\/14\/78597013-12827861-image-a-97_1701786918488.jpg\" height=\"443\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Chris Wilder has returned as manager of Sheffield United to replace Heckingbottom<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;That is one part of it. He probably now has a press conference now, then training after that, maybe another session tomorrow morning. We can bin our analysis.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Somebody told me it might happen. We will see, we have to focus on ourselves, I don&#8217;t think he can change too much in that short period. We don&#8217;t have to think about it too much.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We have to prepare for a football game, we play teams with five at the back, 5-3-2, 5-4-1, quite frequently to be honest so we have to give them a proper job to think about.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I understand that when a new manager comes in, we start getting confused but we can play in different ways.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;As much as I am happy for Chris to be back in a job at his club, he has to think about us then he must be &#8216;oh my God, they come from everywhere.&#8217; But the game will be played tomorrow and not in the press conference.&#8217;<\/p>\n<h3>IT&#8217;S ALL KICKING OFF!\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p><span><span>It&#8217;s All Kicking Off is an exciting new podcast from Mail Sport that promises a different take on Premier League football.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span>It is available on MailOnline, Mail+, YouTube, Apple Music and Spotify.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-12827861\/Trent-Alexander-Arnold-play-position-Liverpool-best-insists-Jurgen-Klopp-England-star.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trent Alexander-Arnold will play in whichever position suits Liverpool best, insists Jurgen Klopp after the England star excelled both at <span class=\"more-text\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301504,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - 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