Our resident tactician Mihail takes a look a how a version of 4-4-2 could work with the players at the disposal of Kenny Dalglish and Steve Clarke. This post is for Subscribers only.
All teams need to find the balance between attack and defence. Perhaps it’s the most crucial equation in football. Formations are designed to meet both needs, with compactness a key when out of possession, and movement essential once in control of the ball. The further up the table you are expected to be, the greater [...]
A look at Steven Gerrard’s tactical deployment in recent times, and how it may develop in the future – by Mihail. By his own standards, Steven Gerrard has been poor for the past 24 months. His supporters, quite rightly, will point to the unfavourable managerial situation. In 2009/10 Rafa was clearly a lame duck – [...]
The second part of my look back at our summer transfer activity over the years brings us up to date, excluding this summer’s business on the grounds that it probably isn’t finished yet. It’ll be interesting to see where it ranks in terms of net spend. I’m guessing pretty high up. I look at each [...]
“Pay As You Play:The True Price of Success in the Premier League Era”, published last autumn, covered 1992 to 2010. This brings several aspects of the analysis up to date. This article is for Subscribers only.
A certain player happens to have completed more successful crosses in the past three seasons than anyone else in the Premier League; he is the top-flight’s 5th-most successful chance-creator over the past seven seasons, and the only one of that top five to not be in a Champions League side over the duration (the other [...]
By Andrew Beasley (Beezdog). Stats sourced from Anfield Index unless stated. All figures quoted are average per Premier League match. One of the most surprising statistics from the season just ended is that Liverpool passed the ball more accurately under Roy Hodgson than they did under Kenny Dalglish. Sure, it was a 74.78% success rate [...]
There seems to be a general unease – and in some cases outright panic – about what Liverpool are doing in the transfer market: ‘overpaying for too many average Brits’ seems to be a theme amongst supporters. There are some key things that people need to get a grip of; not least, the complainant’s need [...]
Part 1 – 1992-2000 As transfer speculation is one way of whiling away the summer – well if you’re not changing managers or owners anyway – I decided to take a look back at our summer transfer activity over the years to see how well it’s worked out and what effect the summer signings had. [...]
By Andrew Beasley (Beezdog) Following this excellent article regarding the goal involvement for each Liverpool player in 2010/11, it was suggested that it would be interesting to see how the Liverpool players compared against their rivals from the other teams that finished in the top six last season. Whilst the original study looked at all [...]
