By Chris Rowland. “Let us know your assessments of every player this season, one by one, with a mark out of 10″, we asked our ever-growing Symposium panel. Every player whose made 10 or more appearances (which ruled out Kelly) and is still at the club (which ruled out Sahin and Cole). Knowing they’ve got [...]
By Mihail Vladimirov. Neither manager made big changes either in terms of formation or personnel, based on their previous games. Liverpool were unchanged from the last game at Newcastle. For the visitors, Moyes made only one change, welcoming back Gibson to play alongside Osman in midfield. With Fellaini pushed forward, Jelavic had to make way [...]
By Paul Tomkins Of late a few people have accused me of being anti-Rodgers; even going so far as to say that I hate him. Even remarking on Twitter a few weeks ago about Jupp Heynckes being a free agent this summer despite possibly leading Bayern to a remarkable treble was translated as “advocating that [...]
By Arnar Steinsson: “The day after we won our first European Cup, we were back in Melwood at 9:45 in the morning talking about how we would do it again, working right from that moment. Nobody has the right to win anything they haven’t earned.” Sir Bob Paisley. I think these words should be the [...]
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 Paul Tomkins. With the season drawing to a close, we at TTT Towers (plus those we keep locked in the dungeon) have a long list of articles lined up for your delectation. Ahead of this, we are offering Subscribers the chance to recommend a friend, who can enjoy a month’s free subscription to the [...]
By Gary Fulcher. Liverpool host Everton on Sunday – 1.30pm kick off UK time – in what will be the 188thMerseyside derby in the league. The Reds are fresh from hammering Newcastle Utd 6-0 – our biggest league win since we thrashed Derby County by the same scoreline back in September 2007 – while Everton’s [...]
By Bob Pearce. It was Copernicus who, just before his death in 1543, first proposed the ‘Heliocentric’ model. Simply said, the Sun does not go around the Earth, but the Earth is orbiting the Sun. We now ‘know’ and ‘understand’ that the Sun does not go around and around the Earth. We now ‘know’ and [...]
By Chris Rowland. Here’s the next instalment of T6 – The Tomkins Times Transfer Talk Tracker – our monthly trip around the land of make-believe that is the media’s transfer gossip. It’s just thinking that the occasional one may just turn out to be true that makes us suspend our disbelief and keep coming back [...]
By Chris Rowland. … and who would they replace in our XI? That’s what we asked the Symposium panel this week. This is what they had to say: By Daniel Rhodes: Bale for Downing. Kompany for Carragher. Yaya Toure for Gerrard. Bale: a bit one-footed, with a daft celebration and a reputation for flamboyant dives [...]
By Lee Mooney. I’ve been invited to Tableau Software’s ‘2013 European Customer Conference’, as a writer for TTT, to talk about life as a ‘fanalyst’ and to show how I’ve been able to make an impact on UK football analysis, albeit a small one so far, using publicly available data and technology. The audience will be journalists and [...]
By Mihail Vladimirov. Pardew surprised with his selection of players and also their positioning. Tiote came back into the side alongside Perch in midfield. Gouffran was replaced by Sissoko down the right flank, with Cabaye replacing Sissoko closer to Cisse. Hence the shape was more like a 4-2-1-3 than the recently used 4-2-3-1. The back [...]
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 [...]
