Curtis Jones: Deep Dive on How He’s Slowly Becoming a Key Part of Klopp’s Midfield

Stats taken after Liverpool v West Ham game on 24th September, 2023

There are times when you see a player and realise that he is slowly becoming an important part of the team. Curtis Jones is entering into that phase of his career now. Liverpool were unbeaten in 19 competitive games in all competitions since suffering from a heavy defeat at Manchester City on the 1st of April (yep it was not April fool’s).

(Editor - Unfortunately the Spurs farce came after Mizgan had written this piece) 

Jones has started 15 of them, one as a captain when he led the side out against Leicester City on Wednesday in the Carabao Cup third round.

It was after that defeat at City, following a sequence of bad results last season, that we saw Jürgen Klopp changing the system. The German did that by moving Trent Alexander-Arnold into midfield when the team had the ball to allow the number eights to push higher up and help the team have an extra body in midfield to dominate possession with.