Jurgen Klopp has revealed that Trent Alexander-Arnold will return to his right-back position when Liverpool come up against Leicester City.
Alexander-Arnold has impressed so far in his new hybrid midfield role for both club and country. He shone in the position for the Reds towards the latter stage of last season and he was deployed in a similar role by England manager Gareth Southgate during the 2024 Euro qualifiers.
Speaking ahead of the game against the Foxes at the National Stadium today, Klopp claims he still wants to try Trent at the right-back position again.
“Trent can play the position. I know after we put him in this kind of flexible role – right-back, midfield position – last year everybody told us that he should play now completely in midfield, without really explaining why, to be honest,” the German said as quoted by Liverpoolfc.com.
“But that’s not the job obviously of you to explain why, just ask for it. That’s fine. So, on the position six it’s a completely different position than he played last season or he played for England because it’s a holding position, you have to organise much more, you have to know who is in your back, two centre-halves but not another midfielder, stuff like this.
“We really thought it’s a very good and important thing to do in this pre-season. We will now try even when you are pretty sure on the position in the moment, No.6, we still want to try it with Trent on right-back again. That was always clear, that we will use the pre-season for that as well. Then we will see how we can start the season.
“The start is the start and then all the rest is the rest of the season. There are different things for us to do and consider, but yes Trent can play the position. It depends who is to the left and the right of him, how we defend as a group much more important.
“If we do that well, if we defend with all the other midfielders plus the three up front plus the last line really well, probably at times I can play the six because then there is not much to do anymore! Too often we leave too much work for the six and that was in other moments a little bit the problem, so that’s why it’s a general task for us to work on and that’s what we are doing.
“Yeah, then we will see who plays where.”
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