Every Premier League season has its own heroes and losers; ups and downs. Some teams are under-achieving, and some are flying high. Some players are making their fans ecstatic with the way they play, and some are just hugely disappointing. Finally, some transfers turn out to be great moves, and some are just more or [...]

Much is said about a team’s ability to hold onto the ball nowadays. Playing a ‘ tiki taka’ possession game is all the rage in the modern-day game and such a style is commonly laid out as the foundational philosophy many clubs and their youth sides. Keeping the ball makes a lot of sense and is a [...]

Last weekend, after Arsenal lost against QPR, many Gooners might have shared a wistful moment reminiscing the chance Robin van Persie missed. Those who don the blue of Chelsea probably look back at this Torres miss early in the season and wonder if everything would have been different had that gone in and led to [...]

As usual, the season so far, for Liverpool FC, has been a roller coaster that would rival the Big Dipper at Blackpool (does that even still exist). One second you’re on the way up only to be on the way down again, emotionally that is. The excellent mood of the last two or three weeks [...]

Liverpool’s painful inability to take chances this season has now been well-documented. Last season, the Reds scored 59 goals from 434 shots, a conversion rate of 13.6%. This season 21 goals have come from 256 attempts at a paltry conversion rate of 8.2%. I thought I’d illustrate this alarming decline by testing the probability of [...]

Having dropped points in several games where they have created far more chances than the opposition, Liverpool’s lack of efficiency in front of goal have been a central point of discussion among supporters this week. Dan Kennett recently wrote an article for The Tomkins Times, exploring Liverpool’s ability to convert clear cut chances to goals, [...]