Welcome to TTT’s regular statistical round-up of Liverpool FC for 2012/13. We’ll be looking at some important metrics (Clear Cut Chances, Total Shots Ratio and Final Third Passing Accuracy) and some that might be of interest in a Brendan Rodgers team (Average Passing Streak). The stats will cover the match Liverpool have just played (all being [...]
By Gary Fulcher, Daniel Rhodes and Mihail Vladimirov. Liverpool travel to St James’s Park to face relegation threatened Newcastle United on Saturday evening, with a 5.30pm kick off UK time. The Reds lost the corresponding fixture 0-2 last season thanks to a brace from Papiss Cisse, in a game that also saw Pepe Reina sent [...]
By Paul Tomkins. It’s easy to laugh at Liverpool fans getting indignant about Luis Suarez’s 10-game ban, and listing all manor of lesser punishments for more serious crimes (Ben Thatcher and Paul Davis to name but two) but it shows definite signs of bias in the FA’s thinking. Suarez has been singled out for who [...]
By Jamie Mclaughlin: Over the years, Liverpool have had many players from many countries all over the world, especially in recent years with so many foreigners coming to play football in England. But has any country produced more influential players in the history of Liverpool Football Club than Scotland? Being a native Scot, I am [...]
By Mihail Vladimirov. Rodgers largely kept the XI that fared so well against Reading last week. But he did a make a crucial personnel change and subsequent tweaks in the players’ positioning. Sturridge made way for Downing on the right flank, Henderson (now central) and Coutinho (now left) swapped places. For Chelsea, Benitez lined up [...]
By Krishen Bhautoo. In March 2011, Graeme Riley wrote a piece “European Hangover? LFC’s Record After Euro Games”. After the recent “Symposium #12 Next Year’s Europa Anyone?”, I thought that it could be something worth revisiting. If you haven’t read the piece by Graeme, he looks at the results that Liverpool have achieved when playing [...]
If a European (not PL) club offered £50m for Suarez this summer, would you take it? By Chris Rowland. This article is for Subscribers only.
Welcome to TTT’s regular statistical round-up of Liverpool FC for 2012/13. We’ll be looking at some important metrics (Clear Cut Chances, Total Shots Ratio and Final Third Passing Accuracy) and some that might be of interest in a Brendan Rodgers team (Average Passing Streak). The stats will cover the match Liverpool have just played (all being [...]
By Gary Fulcher, Daniel Rhodes and Mihail Vladimirov. Liverpool welcome Rafa Benitez back to Anfield for the first time since he was sacked in June 2010 with the visit of Chelsea on Sunday – 4pm kick off UK time. The corresponding fixture last season saw the Reds secure a 4-1 victory courtesy of goals from [...]
By Paul Grech. Which two Liverpool first team members played in a League Cup Final during the 2012-13 season? In coming years that could be a trick question in pub quizzes all over Merseyside. This post is for subscribers only.
You have £25m to spend on one player to improve the Reds, we told our panel (hypothetically speaking, of course – we couldn’t give them ALL £25m). Who would it be and why? By Chris Rowland The trouble with only having £25m is (fill in your own joke here), it’s towards the top end but not the [...]
By Mihail Vladimirov. Neither manager opted for a surprising selection in terms of personnel, yet both managers surprised with their choice of starting formation. Both teams used a shape unfamiliar to them in recent games. Adkins used 4-4-2, with Pogrebnyak and Hunt up front. The latter was told to play deeper and often drop on [...]
In which Dave Cronin takes an in-depth look at our finishing at Reading. Did Reading’s Alex McCarthy produce an uncharacteristic world class performance against Liverpool or did our finishing flatter him? To try to answer that question I’ve painstakingly gone through our main goal-scoring chances from the selection in this compilation: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xyzjgh_liverpool-fc-missed-chances-vs-reading_sport. Excuse the amateur analysis [...]
Welcome to TTT’s regular statistical round-up of Liverpool FC for 2012/13. We’ll be looking at some important metrics (Clear Cut Chances, Total Shots Ratio and Final Third Passing Accuracy) and some that might be of interest in a Brendan Rodgers team (Average Passing Streak). The stats will cover the match Liverpool have just played (all being [...]
By Gary Fulcher, Daniel Rhodes and Mihail Vladimirov. Liverpool travel to the Madejski Stadium on Saturday – 3pm kick off UK time – where they face bottom side Reading in what will be just the tenth official meeting between the two sides. The Reds secured a 1-0 victory at Anfield back in December with Raheem [...]
By Bob Pearce and Mihail Vladimirov. Through, over or around? The more we talk the more I have become interested in what seems like a key patch of grass. It is the strip between the edge of the box and the start of the final third. In terms of lines of play it is the [...]
By Paul Tomkins The following article comprises an interview I gave to the Norwegian Supporters’ Club magazine, which will appear (translated into Norwegian) in the next issue, due out at the end of April. Subscribers to this site can read it now, in English. This post is for Subscribers only.
By Si Steers. There cannot be many football clubs with a more complex cultural fabric than Liverpool FC. In many ways the club represents more than football: it is an institution with a deep rooted socialist core that reflects the people of the City. Mes que un club indeed. Without doubt it was Bill Shankly [...]
By Mihail Vladimirov. Rodgers continued with an unchanged side but tweaked his formation slightly. Last week against Aston Villa it was 4-1-2-3. Now, with Henderson as the most advanced midfielder, the shape was more of a 4-2-1-3. For the visitors, Reid was omitted due to a problem with his thigh – Tomkins came into the [...]
By Chris Rowland. I put ‘Who’s for ale this summer?’ at first. Subliminal. On to this week’s question, which was ‘which players would you look to sell in the summer, and how much money do you think they could bring in?’ Answers are below, starting with mine: Let’s start with the obvious – Andy Carroll. [...]
Welcome to TTT’s regular statistical round-up of Liverpool FC for 2012/13. We’ll be looking at some important metrics (Clear Cut Chances, Total Shots Ratio and Final Third Passing Accuracy) and some that might be of interest in a Brendan Rodgers team (Average Passing Streak). The stats will cover the match Liverpool have just played (all being [...]
By Chris Rowland. Here we go then – our first monthly spin on the insane transfer gossip merry-go-round we could call The Tomkins Times Transfer Talk Tracker (or T6!). The plan is to make it a regular monthly event, if my sanity holds up. Some conclusions sprang to mind in the process of compiling it; that most [...]
By Gary Fulcher, Daniel Rhodes and Mihail Vladimirov. Liverpool host West Ham United at Anfield on Sunday – 1.30pm kick off UK time – with Brendan Rodgers’ side sitting four places and 12 points above Sam Allardyce’s Hammers who occupy 11th having picked up 36 points. The corresponding fixture in 2010/11 saw the Reds record a [...]
By Paul Tomkins. If there’s one area of the team that has failed to function this season it’s the central defence. The attacking play has grown increasingly proficient, with Philippe Coutinho adding the ability to take players on, score goals and most impressively, thread sumptuous passes through the hole in the bit of fluff in [...]
By Arnar Steinsson. “We are one club compared to what it was then”. The words of Frank McParland on the day that Brendan Rodgers and a group of first team players visited the Academy at Kirkby at the end of February. A long road has been travelled and countless hours of hard work put in [...]
