By Andrew Beasley (a.k.a Beezdog) ‘Lies, damned lies and statistics’ is a phrase often used to try and undermine research, by effectively saying that you can prove anything with numbers. But can you use numbers to go so far as proving Christian Poulsen has done remotely well at Liverpool? Poulsen is a fairly rare beast: [...]
I’m back to take another depressing look at the chalkboards. Skipped a few games in between largely down to the fact that the chalkboards didn’t have any interesting tale to tell. While the news from the Wolves game isn’t positive, there are a few things worth noting. I’m still trying to understand how we lined [...]
Meireles attempted 56 passes against West Ham, completing 50 of them, including one assist from the corner. Out of the six misplaced passes, four were corners gone astray. That’s some passing in 83 completed minutes.
Following on from last week’s subscriber-only piece about Liverpool’s lack of possession (and the proven benefits of possession football over primarily counter-attacking for more ‘ambitious’ sides), this piece looks at how rigid the Reds have become in terms of shape.
Just a quick freebie post in response to the number of emails I’ve had today taking me to task for defending Lucas. The following is just one example, from a season ticket holder: “And with regards to the Chelsea game you can count the amount of times Lucas was actually involved in the game on [...]
