Posted by Chris Rowland on May 20th, 2013
By Chris Rowland. Well here’s one where there should be no shortage of material discussion. But it’s not keep him or sell him – that’s for our usual ‘Should They Stay or Should They Go?’ series which will follow shortly. This is about rating the player’s contribution this season. This post is for Subscribers only.
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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 bring the 2012/13 campaign to an end with a visit to Anfield of relegated Queens Park Rangers on Sunday, 3pm kick off UK time. The Reds secured a comfortable 3-0 victory in the reverse fixture back in December, thanks to a brace from Luis Suarez and [...]
By Lee Mooney. I was recently involved in an interesting debate on Twitter about the usefulness of data to clubs looking to buy and sell players. I thought I’d produce a response that outlines what I see as the strengths, weaknesses and opportunities inherent in using data to assist player recruitment. Criticisms that arose included: [...]
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 Paul Tomkins. I can’t recall too many seasons like this one in recent times. In fact, you probably have to go back to the end of the last millennium to experience something similar. To put it simply, not a lot that’s really good or really bad has happened on the pitch. And there have been [...]
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 [...]
By Bob Pearce, 11th March 2013. Below is a copy of a letter Bob Pearce sent to the Prime Minister last week. Following the calls for truth and justice, Bob now calls also for one more thing - belated recognition of many Liverpool fans as heroes for what they did at Hillsborough. Bob – and we – are anxious to share this [...]
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 Paul Tomkins. This weekend marks the 25th anniversary of Liverpool’s victory over Nottingham Forest, regarded by many to be the club’s finest ever, and arguably one that few sides in world football have bettered. With this in mind, I have watched the whole match again and provided my thoughts in an article that will [...]
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 [...]
