Arne Slot‘s Liverpool have now received simply 5 of their final 17 video games within the Premier League, which is a run worse than Roy Hodgson’s time accountable for the membership.
Hodgson’s depressing reign as Liverpool supervisor is broadly thought of the membership’s on-field nadir; a time within the Reds’ current historical past that almost all would somewhat overlook.
It’s outstanding, then, that of their final 17 video games within the Premier League – not an insignificant stretch – Slot’s aspect are producing worse type than the Hodgson period.
Final 17 video games: Arne Slot vs. Roy Hodgson at Liverpool
Since their preliminary five-game profitable streak at first of the brand new marketing campaign, Liverpool’s Premier League type reads:
Performed: 17
Received: 5
Drawn: 6
Misplaced: 6
Win Fee: 29.4%
Hodgson’s file in his closing 17 league video games accountable for Liverpool was:
Performed: 17
Received: 6
Drawn: 3
Misplaced: 8
Win Fee: 35.3%
And per Opta’s Michael Reid on X, the typical of 1.24 factors per recreation within the final 17 league fixtures is decrease than Hodgson’s total file of 1.25 factors per recreation at Liverpool.
There may be important context to contemplate, not least that Slot’s Liverpool are presently fourth and received the league final season, whereas Hodgson was sacked after 31 video games in cost together with his workforce in twelfth.
Nonetheless this present Liverpool squad is significantly stronger than that of 2010/11 and had been boosted by a spend of £446.2 million.
That’s in comparison with the preliminary £25.5 million outlay of 15 years earlier when the likes of Paul Konchesky, Christian Poulsen and Joe Cole arrived.
Hodgson managed 20 video games within the Premier League and the Reds received simply seven of these, dropping 9 – a stunning file.
However with Bournemouth (away), Newcastle (residence) and Man Metropolis (residence) to return of their subsequent three video games within the league, there is no such thing as a assure that Slot’s Liverpool even file as many wins on this block of 20 fixtures.
Talking after the sport, Slot famous how Liverpool had “even for our requirements extra ball possession than we normally have” and “generated lots of probabilities,” and stats from FotMob present that these are areas by which they’ve excelled.
Liverpool are dominating possession and likelihood creation charts
No workforce is averaging extra possession than Liverpool (61.6%) on this season’s Premier League, nor has any workforce created extra probabilities (263).
Liverpool had 73 p.c possession to Burnley‘s 27, with 32 pictures to seven and 11 heading in the right direction to 1.
The xG scoreline was 2.96-0.40, however the closing rating of 1-1 underlined how the Reds missed all three of their large probabilities.
Drawing with Burnley means Liverpool have didn’t beat all three promoted groups at Anfield for the primary time within the Premier League period – and the primary time since 1980/81.
“In the present day was a recreation which I prefer to see,” Slot informed reporters. “A workforce that had even for our requirements extra ball possession than we normally have, producing lots of probabilities from that ball possession.
“And normally for those who take a bit extra danger that comes with the opposite workforce counter-attacking you a couple of instances. We managed that actually effectively.
“However yeah, in soccer one workforce can have two probabilities and rating one objective and one other workforce can have a number of probabilities and rating one objective as effectively, the you get the outcome we obtained at this time.”
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