Alan Ayre explains how cohesive combinations can make all the difference

Influential: Liverpool defender Virgil van Dijk

Not everyone agrees players play better on certain grounds, or shirt numbers affect performance, or form and fitness follow a predictable cycle.
Everyone does agree a team with good partnerships in cohesive combinations is a team to be reckoned with.
Most English coaches don’t know how to put such a team together, but we all know one when we see it. We may say: the players fit seamlessly, they have uncanny understanding, telepathic, they just gel!
So why is it so hard ...