On February 8th 2014, Arsene Wenger took his table-topping Arsenal side to Anfield. High on confidence after a run of 10 games without defeat, Arsenal were 4-0 down after just 20 minutes. This was a Liverpool team selected and set up by Brendan Rodgers to exploit every soft spot in Wenger’s side.

“This game was one of the major highlights of my time at Liverpool” Rodgers told The Coaches’ Voice, a new football website launching on Monday January 8th. “Our idea going into it was to allow Arsenal to build the game so they would open the pitch up. Then we would get into our midfield block to press the game in the central area or on the right hand side.”

Rodgers explains how he targeted Mesut Ozil as a player Liverpool would double press when in possession to win the ball back and build their own attack. “We felt we could then break out from inside Arsenal’s shape.”

Rodgers singles out Liverpool’s third goal, scored by Raheem Sterling on 16 minutes as significant “because people felt we changed our style in my second season to when I first came in. It was exactly the same style but what was different was our efficiency in the second part of the season.

“In my first season we had numbers of games where we were in on counter attack but in the whole of the season we only scored one goal from a counter attack. In the second season we had nine goals from counter attack. So our efficiency changed, not necessarily the tactic.”

See more from Brendan Rodgers at www.coachesvoice.com from Monday January 8th