After their recent defeat to Arsenal, most Kopites agreed that whilst Liverpool had played reasonably well (if in a slightly clueless fashion at times), it was their finishing that had stopped them from claiming all three points.
With the Reds now ten points behind the much-coveted 4th place, it is surely time to start thinking about which players should be shipped out and replaced during the summer to have a better crack at it next term.
Or is it? Whilst I definitely agree with the general assessment of the Arsenal game, the most frustrating thing is that it is far from the first time this season that this has been the case. So does that mean wholesale changes are required or not?
I’m not convinced that they are. Whilst Liverpool are, clearly, far from the finished article, it has felt when watching the majority of their games this season that they have dominated their opponents, and by looking at the match stats on EPLIndex, it becomes clear that this has been the case more often than not.
Take a look at the table below. I have gone through the statistics for each Liverpool match, and recorded how many times the Reds have been out-performed by their rivals in the key match statistics:
What we can see here is that Liverpool have dominated their opponents in most aspects of the game in around three-quarters of their matches. To have had more of the ball in twenty-two out of twenty-six league games, for example, is a promising position to start from.
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Very interesting way to analyse Liverpool’s season. It all looked doom and gloom on Saturday but looking at this analysis it’s safe to say that Liverpool’s problem is just the one that they MUST solve: scoring goals. Everything else seems to be efficient.
Been saying it all season our cries are falling on deaf ears we needed to buy a fox in the box in january rather then trying to play strikers in to form who cant even buy a goal wow and who to blame but kd and comoli stuborness is the reason we 7th nothing els if it was any other mnanager we wuld be calling for his head we blinded by legacy and forget wut lfc stands for results.ynwa lfc till i die hope it gets beter soon
Liverpool ll do be nxt season
Is it possible to get numbers on shots (on goal) vs The Others at Anfield this year?
And for those calling for KDs head, remember where we were 13 months ago. And 16.. We play much better and attractive football. We`ve been the worst team in 4 matches this season. It takes time. And, with a striker like RvP or a bit more luck when we hit the post, we would`ve been over Spurs at the table.
Here you go mate, Liverpool vs opposition shots at Anfield this season:
Sunderland: 13 v 13
Bolton: 14 v 7
Wolves: 13 v 9
Man Utd: 11 v 9
Norwich: 21 v 8
Swansea: 17 v 9
Man City: 15 v 7
QPR: 15 v 5
Blackburn: 22 v 5
Newcastle: 13 v 4
Stoke: 10 v 3
Spurs: 10 v 7
Arsenal: 12 v 10
Top stuff Andrew.
I’m not totally convinced that all we need is a striker. The more fundamental problem is that the midfield are not contributing goals; in the League there has been 0 from Downing, 1 from Adam (exc pens), 1 from Henderson, etc. Ok Gerrard has got a few, but that is nowhere near enough from the whole midfield quartet. KD needs to field more dynamic midfield players who are not afraid to get in the box. If only we had players like Maxi and Shelvey who can do that….what do you mean that we do?