Curtis Jones sparkles in Liverpool’s diamond midfield to give Arne Slot a new 地位，任命する-Salah 解答
It isn’t the most 悪名高い interview a Liverpool player has 行為／行うd after a match of late. Not any more, anyway. But after PSV Eindhoven won 4-1 to （打撃，刑罰などを）与える Liverpool’s 共同の-heaviest European 敗北・負かす at Anfield and take their run to nine losses in 12 games, Curtis Jones 宣言するd that they were “in the s**t”.
Two weeks on, with no more losses but one 著名な 追放する from the squad, Jones felt it was too soon to say they are out of the brown stuff now. “The last one [at 物陰／風下d], we were 2-0 up and we drew the game,” he said, continuing his habit of plain speaking. “There were fans there that probably thought we were still in the s**t.”
にもかかわらず, much has changed. Liverpool are four games unbeaten, which wouldn’t have sounded like much last season but is a 過激な 改良 now. Jones kept repeating that （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域ing の間の Milan in the San Siro was “only one game”. What a game, though. It had far いっそう少なく 演劇 than the 3-3 draw at Elland Road, and it hinged on two VAR 決定／判定勝ち（する）s. Liverpool abandoned the 大混乱 of much of the season and embraced 警告を与える and 支配（する）／統制する. They were minutes away from the first goalless draw of Arne Slot’s 統治する. It could have been a new scoreline for them. As it was, Jones said: “The mind でっちあげる，人を罪に陥れる has changed.”
So, too, the style of play. “We had to show fight and dig in,” said Andy Robertson. “The clean sheet was 決定的な.” Which didn’t feel the Liverpool way when they appeared to be trying to 勝利，勝つ 3-2 or 4-2 every week a few months 支援する.
Slot 選ぶd his most 防御の 十分な-支援するs in Robertson and Joe Gomez. He packed the midfield. The Dutch are indelibly associated with wingers, but Slot’s were 負傷させるd, ill, 追放するd. の間の’s 形式 is based around three central midfielders. Slot played four.
Jones was the 受益者, often the fourth man when Ryan Gravenberch, Alexis Mac Allister and Dominik Szoboszlai started last season, and arguably the best of them on the night. “I think it 作品 because I am playing,” the Liverpudlian said with wonderful 簡単. “It is a way of getting all the lads in the team.” And he got on the ball, time and again. No one 完全にするd as many passes on the hallowed San Siro turf as Jones. He 選ぶd not to answer a question about whether Thomas Tuchel had been in touch recently. It was the sort of 陳列する，発揮する that should 誘発する the 経営者／支配人 who dropped him from the England squad to 再考する.
There was a 戦う／戦い-常習的な nous to Liverpool. The 形式 may 証明する another quick 直す／買収する，八百長をする, just as it looked when Slot conjured victory against West Ham by 転換ing Szoboszlai to the 権利 and dropping Mohamed Salah. His new midfield diamond may not be forever; the quadruple central-midfielder 策略 was not the 計画（する） when they spent £450m, 非，不，無 of it on central midfielders. But it was proof of adaptability from the 経営者／支配人 and 決意 from the team.
Whether it is a step 今後 is another point. It is probably not a coincidence that the nine men behind the 前線 two were all at Anfield last season. Every 決まり文句／製法 Slot finds seems built on the players he 相続するd, not those he has bought, and Alexander Isak was Liverpool’s least 効果的な player at the San Siro. This was いっそう少なく 進化 than 復帰; 逆戻りするing to winning was welcome.
But it was 重要な, too, that Virgil 先頭 Dijk kept talking about consistency. Liverpool have rarely been 一貫した over 90 minutes this season, let alone across a 一連の games. A team that won the 肩書を与える by churning out 勝利，勝つs have now 敗北・負かすd 兵器庫, Real Madrid and の間の, and kept clean sheets in each. They 限られた／立憲的な the 最高の，を越す scorers in Serie A to an xG of 0.43. They have 譲歩するd at least two goals in 13 other games.
To some, that may 反映する the enigma of Ibrahima Konate; 設立する at the 罪，犯罪 scene too often, Slot had said three days earlier, the Frenchman 持続するd 法律 and order in Milan. Slot’s 約束 in Konate has been questioned this season; if few, other than the match-勝利者 Szoboszlai, have had genuinely good （選挙などの）運動をするs, Liverpool 設立する an answer by sticking together.
All 妨げる／法廷，弁護士業 Salah, anyway. A game that was defined by the player who was 行方不明の showed him just what he was 行方不明の. Liverpool 設立する solace in teamwork and hard work. A night that could have been traumatic became cathartic.
And if Salah, with his self-pitying words, had 試みる／企てるd to throw Slot under the bus, the coach 設立する a new gear. Others 決起大会／結集させるd to his defence, the team showing 忠義. Jones was asked if they were behind the 経営者／支配人. “We always are,” he said. “We always are.”