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Liverpool, Arsenal and the emerging 'false nine' role
Roberto Firmino and Alexis Sanchez have been employed as 'false nines,' to positive effect for their clubs.
Some years ago, there was a notion that only extraordinary players such as Lionel Messi and Francesco Totti merited the 'false nine' role -- namely a player positioned as a striker who functions instead as a midfield playmaker -- around which the rest of the team was built. Now the entry level has been lowered. In the Premier League last weekend, five teams started strikers originally considered midfielders: Liverpool (Roberto Firmino), Arsenal (Alexis Sanchez), Southampton (Nathan Redmond), Tottenham (Son Heung-min) and West Ham (Michail Antonio).
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