Liverpool are struggling to search out their mojo and they’re being outworked whereas they search to rediscover it, with six of their final seven league opponents protecting extra distance.
The highlight is firmly fastened on Arne Slot‘s facet and what wants to vary for Liverpool to begin stringing constructive outcomes collectively after seven defeats within the final 10 throughout all competitions.
One place to begin is working more durable than the opposition, as within the Reds’ final seven Premier League video games solely as soon as have Liverpool coated extra distance than their opponent.
Man Metropolis, Aston Villa, Brentford, Man United, Crystal Palace and Everton all outran Liverpool of their latest conferences, with Chelsea the one facet to, fractionally, cowl much less distance.
Slot’s males misplaced that match however did defeat Villa and Everton regardless of protecting much less floor, although the lesson for Liverpool should be that they begin outworking their opposition.
• Man Metropolis 3-0 Liverpool: 118.7km – 109.67km• Liverpool 2-0 Aston Villa: 106.65km – 107.66km• Brentford 3-1 Liverpool: 121.41km – 114.08km• Liverpool 1-2 Man United: 109.04km – 112.16km • Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool: 114.15km – 114.22km• Crystal Palace 2-1 Liverpool: 120.97km – 114.73km• Liverpool 2-1 Everton: 102.43km – 101.64km
Some will level to the truth that Liverpool have the vast majority of possession in video games, which they do by averaging a league-high 60.7%, as per FotMob, and that would then have an effect on their operating stats.
Nonetheless, as per the BBC, who utilise Opta’s stats, Man Metropolis presently prime the charts for distance coated within the Premier League this season regardless of having the fourth-highest possession common (56.5%).
And the latest journey to the Etihad was a lesson in work fee for Liverpool, as Metropolis ran nearly 9 kilometres greater than Slot’s facet (118km vs 109.2km).
Solely as soon as this season has a crew outrun their opponent by a larger margin when towards 11 gamers, and that was in Metropolis’s 4-0 opening day win at Wolves by a margin of practically 10km.
Arsenal, in the meantime, are second for floor coated whereas additionally averaging the third-highest possession (58.8%) within the league, underlining that the 2 will not be mutually unique.
Liverpool haven’t any scarcity of areas for enchancment, but when they’re to make the required steps again in the direction of constant victories, it ought to begin with outworking their opponent.
