61% possession is an impressive statistic. But a more impressive statistic, and the one one that counts, and the one that hurts is 25% of the goals. Those are the key statistics from the recent poor defeat in front of the home crowd against an unfancied Aston Villa. The press had stories of Liverpool possibly pushing on [...]

Introduction: the foundations (part 2/5) – Positioning This is a five-part series of articles that aims to introduce football coaches and fanatics to basic concepts in a systems football approach (such as tiki-taka). The systems approach to football is founded upon a system of complexity and unity Please read both the Andre Villas-Boas approach and Brendan [...]

There’s some discrepancy in the stats reported on MLSSoccer.com as they’ve stated 660 passes but when the stats were added up on the Chalkboards it stated 712. Not sure what to think about that but the passing stats are still very impressive. It was a friendly game but Liverpool haven’t managed over 700 passes since playing Bolton [...]

Brendan Rodgers is a man who has an appreciation of footballing perception and culture, regardless of its roots, a man who strives for perfection in the evolution of the game. The strategies of ‘Tiki-Taka’ and ‘totaal-voetbal’  form the basis of Brendan Rodgers’ modus operandi. For Rodgers the season of 2011/12 will be regarded as the [...]