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Liverpool’s pressing has been roundly and rightly criticised this season, but the condemnation has almost entirely focussed upon the defensive aspect of closing down opponents. The effectiveness has also lessened from an attacking standpoint, though, rendering Jurgen Klopp’s ‘favourite playmaker’ far less potent. Opta have a metric called high turnovers, which is when a team wins the ball to start a possession sequence within 40m of the opposition goal. In the 2020/21 Premier League, the Reds generated 67 shots from them, 1.76 per game and the second most in the division. By these standards, their efforts against Graham Potter’s side were a significant step in the right direction.

Against their season long average of 9.4 per game, Liverpool won possession 12 times in the final 40m on Saturday.



Only one of their high turnovers has resulted in a goal this season when Brentford, Manchester City and Tottenham have all had five ( .




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