Yeah, Sarah's v utd was classic klopp. Win it, salah is just gone. Dalot is mile up the park and we have our plan. One pass, first time hit. Goal. If salah takes a touch martinez probably gets to him.
Percentage chance of scoring per shot Luis Diaz's Premier League career with Liverpool 2021/22 9.3% 2022/23 9.8% 2023/24 12.6% 2024/25
End of block 2, finally some reasonable data to talk about Block Performance: Thats a perfect block delivered. Historical Performance This shows a better start than any season of the last 5 and in particular the best block 2 since 2019/20 Points Trend Again, just shows that early form is the best since 2019/20 Performance v Bottom half teams Games played 6 Goals scored 10 Goal conceded 2 Games won 5 Games drawn 0 Games lost 1 Win ratio 84% Draw ratio 0% Loss ratio 17% Goals per game 1.67 Goals conceded per game 0.33 Points per game 2.50 Performance V Top Half Sides Games played 2 Goals scored 5 Goal conceded 1 Games won 2 Games drawn 0 Games lost 0 Win ratio 100% Draw ratio 0% Loss ratio 0% Goals per game 2.50 Goals conceded per game 0.5 Points per game 3.00 These two highlight how unbalanced the start has been for us. 6 v 2 in terms of bottom v top Super League Scum Table: Top of the table here but early days. Where does this season Compare with 2019/20 Interestingly goals scored has now crept up to come to the same level as 2019/20 where the team was all business. We have actually conceded less goals per block over these two ealry blocks. Its very early days and the games played shows we have played a cuple more of the easier games than we should have by now but the points are in the bag (bar that awful loss to forest) We are just about on the level of 2 goals per game overall and 0.5 goals per game conceded. Our achilles heel under klopp was goals against v the top hapf teams. The better ones who could get by an initial press or had a bit of quality to finish. Last year we were 1.4 goals per game conceded v the top half and no side can compete for a title at that level. You'll get top 4 but not a title. For me slot has to get the % wins inthe top half up (klopp had 33% wins and 44% draws last year) and maintain the record we had against the bottom half of 85% wins. (we did lose 2) We are talking 8 more points that last year so those 7draws v top half and 2 loses. You have to conver some to wins and defence will do that for you imo.
21 Liverpool 20 Man City 19 18 17 Arsenal, Villa 16 15 Brighton 14 Chelsea 13 Spurs, Forest 12 Newcastle 11 Fulham, Ballmouth, Man Utd 10 Brentford 9 Leicester 8 West Ham, Everton 7 6 5 4 Ipswich 3 Palace 2 1 Saints, Wolves Showing slight gaps developing at the top and bottom with majority of teams bunched together in the middle.
Mini gaps but nothing that can’t be closed or overtaken within 2 results really. Why a win over arsenal would be huge this weekend. Current gap is 4, could be 1, 4 or 7 after Sunday.
For the first time Liverpool have won the first six away games in the season. Also Liverpool have won 11 games out of 12 games for the first time.
Arne Slot has earned 28 points form his first 11 Prem games ,the joint most at this stage by a manager. along with Guus Hiddiink at Chelsea.
End of block 3 now, we hit as close to 1/3rd of the season as you can get in block terms Block Performance: No perfect but a draw with arsenal in there, Historical Performance The season continues to be the best since 2019/20 with onle the forest result blemising it. Points Trend Again, just shows that early form is the best since 2019/20 Performance v Bottom half teams Games played 7 Goals scored 13 Goal conceded 4 Games won 6 Games drawn 0 Games lost 1 Win ratio 86% Draw ratio 0% Loss ratio 14% Goals per game 1.86 Goals conceded per game 0.57 Points per game 2.57 Performance V Top Half Sides Games played 5 Goals scored 11 Goal conceded 4 Games won 4 Games drawn 1 Games lost 0 Win ratio 80% Draw ratio 20% Loss ratio 0% Goals per game 2.20 Goals conceded per game 0.8 Points per game 2.6 Super League Scum Table: Super league 6 table Where does this season Compare with 2019/20 Goals scored still above 2019/20 but today's poor show just tips the goals conceded above 2019/20 for this block and close to 2019/20 The next 4 games. city. newcastle everton Fulham 10/12 says they really believe. the CL qualification is in the bag. The league cu isn't worth thinking about. give everything in these 4 and see where it comes out.
Points per game is identical vs top and bottom half teams, but we're scoring and conceding more against top half teams. That would back-up the theory that we only do "enough" vs lesser teams, while top half teams are more likely to find a way through and score themselves, so we have to score more against them.
34 Liverpool 33 32 31 30 29 28 27 26 25 Arsenal, Chelsea 24 23 Brighton, Man City 22 Forest 21 20 Spurs, Brentford 19 Man Utd, Fulham, Newcastle, Villa 18 Bournemouth 17 16 15 West Ham 14 13 12 11 Everton 10 Leicester 9 Palace, Wolves, Ipswich 8 7 6 5 Saints
I think this is sort of interesting picture emerging. Chelsea are absoutley bullying the non top 6 but have been poor v the top 6. (they drew with an awful utd and arsenal in the midst of thier own crisis). the gap is most down to how we have done agasint top 6 clubs, (cheslea included) The gap to arsenal however is 5 points v top 6 and 4 v non top 6. Again for those of a mind I would like to point out our run in. Week 34 LFC v Spurs Week 35 Cheslea V LFC Week 36 LFC v Arsenal. I'd suggest we need as big a gap as possible for that run in. Week 37 special mention to my favourite Brighton A I wouldn't get one bit carried away by a 9 point gap after 13 games when that gap is needed just to get by those games. Its a tough tough run in folks. You want to see this title all but put to bed with 10 to go. (city away game week 26) And yes this does mean there is a big period in january and feburary of a run of games we ought to be winnig, Forest, brentford, ipswich, bournemouth, wolves all in a row.
A quick note Mo salah Played 20 Scored 13 Assists 11 In the premier league Played 13 Scored 11 Assisted 7 In the cl Played 5 Scored 1 Assisted 4 League cup Played 2 Scored 1 Let's just think about that. Played 13 and part of 18 goals. If Mo salah was English the media would be all over this. This is poty and balon d'or territory, though only a third of season.
