mike65 wrote: » Statsbomb article which confirms what most of us knew - Liverpool shoot often and often from the wrong places, and what some of us understood - the defence is not intrinsically bad rather it had some awful off-days. All Coutinho fans also knew this of course
In fact, Opta confirmed that in the last two seasons for GK playing more than 1000 minutes, only Paddy Kenny had a worse “% of shots in the box saved” number than Pepe Reina. Thankfully this looks to have been addressed with the purchase of Simon Mignolet, a goalkeeper who performs extremely well in just about every GK metric that you care to choose. In a sport of very few goals like football, the theory is that more saves equals fewer goals conceded equals more points
Coutinho instantly became the most sublime creative player at Liverpool since the lesser-spotted Jari Litmanen in 2001, a bona-fide Brazilian maestro. He created a superb 2.8 open play chances per match, making him a peer of David Silva, Juan Mata and Suarez. However, Coutinho’s value-add was that over 30% were Opta’s “clear chances.” Chance quality is a critical advantage, because we know that 38% of “clear” chances are converted compared to 8% of “normal” chances. Whilst Suarez, Silva, and Mata created a clear chance between every 190 and 200 minutes, with Coutinho it’s 100. Those numbers make little Phil look a genuine phenom.
murpho999 wrote: » What's the betting that Suarez get's a serious injury this season after all this drama.
Shankly Gates wrote: » It's clearly our year if these lads are saying it
rarnes1 wrote: » Our first team looks decent. Our squad looks weak
kaimera wrote: » Cultural differences...
le la rat wrote: » Just think its an extremely weak squad
T-K-O wrote: » One big misunderstanding..
slingerz wrote: » care to expand on that?
rarnes1 wrote: » Welcome back Suarez. Delighted :-)
5starpool wrote: » I've just seen proof on twitter that we are signing Willian. Wait for it................ apparently Willian just 'liked' a picture on Lucas' Instagram account.. Proof indisputible indeed. Our new number 16 has all but signed I'd say.
Pedalstool wrote: » If we do sign this Willian chap, who by all accounts is quality, and Rodgers manages to make Sturridge/Suarez/Coutinho/Willian work, we could be very formidable.
SlickRic wrote: » i'd be fascinated to know what they think we've done to warrant us going ahead of Spurs and Arsenal. i'd love them to be right obviously, but: are they assuming we're buying more before the deadline? are they assuming Spurs have bought duds? are they assuming Arsenal will be shítter despite no change? are they assuming no EL is going to have a huge impact on our EPL season?
Andy Carroll wrote: » One for the future.