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Genuinely fascinated to see how Liverpool's midfield shapes up once Thiago is settled in. Fabinho & Ox aside they rest are pretty flexible in terms of the roles they can play. One thing to keep an eye on this season is the distribution of assists across the squad. Front 3 (Mo, Firmino & Mane): 19 + 8 + 7 = 34 (~43%) Full-backs (Trent & Robertson): 13 + 12 = 25 (~32%) Midfield (Hendo, Fabinho, Keita & Milner): 5 + 3 + 3 + 2 = 13 (~17%) The rest (all max of 1 assist): 6 (~8%) That's a huge skew towards the full-backs relative to midfield. If, for example, giving more game time to Keita and Thiago at the expense of Milner and Wijnaldum means Liverpool play less through the full-backs and more through the centre of the pitch then we should expect to see these stats level out a bit.

Is there an updated view on this, post COVID-19? Would be interesting to see if Hendo stayed top.

Alex Stewart, Joe Devine & Seb Stafford-Bloor take a look at Liverpool full-back back-up transfer options https://www.tifofootball.com/podcast/sensible-transfers-liverpool-crystal-palace-celtic-roma/ Out of interest, they came up with the following options (...while also highlighting that promoting the likes of Williams & Larouci may be the smarter move) They are mainly more experienced, lower budget options who may be happy to play more of a supporting role. LB Mario Rui (28) - roma Bastian Oczipka (31) - schalke RB Daniel Brosinski (31) - mainz Valentino Lazaro (23) - inter

How Liverpool Surpassed the Golden State Warriors Ryan O'Hanlon https://nograssintheclouds.substack.com/p/how-liverpool-surpassed-the-golden?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo0MzMwOTY3LCJwb3N0X2lkIjoyMjM4MDgsIl8iOiJSTjhOMCIsImlhdCI6MTU3OTAxMzA5OCwiZXhwIjoxNTc5MDE2Njk4LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItNDA4MCIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.AdjXFb9T1n3GIXPohrSqjQqsQ3rblmUnsgTPo4Og6fI

The great man retired today. Best of luck to him. Sure he he lacked a little grace on the ball but he was an absolute machine defensively - covered the grass at a tremendous rate & tackled like a man possessed. I'll always remember him for putting in arguably the crunchiest tackle ever seen in the Charity Shield. 2006 on Ballack. 25 secs in. It also reminded me of one of our best chants of the last 15 years!

Wishful thinking I know - but we have a much tougher cluster of fixtures than City around the CL semi-final dates. But looking back to 3-4 years it's a joy that such a "concern" is even on our radar.

This makes for nice viewing ;-)

Anyone come across any high-quality photos of last night? It wasn't pretty but the boys got the job done.

Happy Istanbul Day! Missed a trick not working this into an '05 song

Top work jonesy

Mate that would be amazing. Much appreciated.

I was looking through some stats earlier and saw that this is the 12th season running that either Messi or Ronaldo will be the top scorer in the CL (...in 2015 they were joint top with Neymar). That, more than most, underlines how they have been a level above the rest for so long. Also, I see that Sadio has committed more fouls than anyone else (22) and is the third most fouled behind Neymar and Suarez. Well in lad.

Tuesday night's exploits were amazing and I love having good quality pics to look back on big nights like this. Here are close to 150 in pretty decent resolution - https://lfcglobe.co.uk/photos-incredible-scenes-at-anfield-as-liverpool-defy-odds-to-reach-champions-league-final/ Does anyone have any relatively high-resolution pics of Istanbul, Tuesday night or any of our games? (If so, post the links here so we can share the memories)

I spotted that too, but assumed his reaction was an anguished one after leaving in a relatively saveable shot?