For his first major assignment, Postecoglou returned to Anfield - the home of the club he famously supported as a child. He was tasked with scrutinising Liverpool’s Champions League quarter-final second leg against Paris Saint-Germain. While the match ended in a0-2 defeat for the Reds, Postecoglou’s technical report highlighted a few defensive silver linings.
Inhis analysis, Postecoglou noted: "Liverpool's approach was that, 'We'll keep our shape but, within that shape, we'll then go man-for-man once the press is instigated'. The key point is that sometimes when people reference man to man, they put it as, 'They all have a specific player to pick up,' whereas the zonal aspect of this means there wasn't a specific player that Liverpool picked up. There was a specific player in their area that they picked up."