Liverpool assistant coach Lijnders lifts lid on special science of Klopp pressing game | OneFootball

Liverpool assistant coach Pep Lijnders has lifted the lid on the science of manager Jurgen Klopp's pressing game.

The former Porto coach explained the secrets behind the Reds' famous pressing gameplan that has helped them win the Champions League, Club World Cup and Premier League since June 2019.

"The better you press, the better you counter-press, the less you run, it is that simple because you don't have to go 60 metres back," Lijnders said on the Big Interview podcast.

"We call it organised pressing, organised counter-pressing, organised chaos.

"As staff, we are consciously working on what happens before and what happens around [the press].

"That's the organisation and for me, our positional game in the last years has improved so much. What that means is we get better and more control of the games.

"We always say the 30 per cent where we don't have the ball, we want to be different than all the other teams in the league.

"We don't say we want 70 per cent of the ball, we say when we don't have the ball, that is when we want to be different.

"That's our fingerprint, that's our way. Because we believe when we don't have the ball, we dominate that moment if it is counter-pressing.

"And the only way to have that freedom in the attack is to know that when we lose the ball, we can recover it quickly.

"I think the main reason we won, are decisive and could keep it up for a long period, is we focused on the 30 per cent in training constantly.

"That is where we wanted to improve constantly, but as I said before, the better you attack, the more you have the ball, the more you are connected and the closer you have players to each other.

"All these things, the better you counter-press, the less you run. But the better your positional game, the less hectic moments you see."