When Harry met Kenny: Liverpool v Spurs match preview
By anyone’s standards Liverpool have had a good couple of weeks. Since the debacle that was the defeat to Bolton, some home truths and committed performances have…
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Kenny Dalglish Sacked – “The Liverpool Way” is Dead
It was headline news on Sky Sports, BBC and in all the newspapers. Everyone knew what happened. Kenny Dalglish didn’t resign as manager, nor did he come to the end of his…
The Importance of Being Lucas | Opta Stats Analysis
It may surprise you to hear this, but with Liverpool FC having played 33 games this season, with only 5 games remaining, Lucas Leiva is still Liverpool’s top tackler. With…
Liverpool 2 Everton 1 | Going to Wembley Thrice | Opta Stats
April 14th 2012 will be remembered as an excellent day for any Liverpool FC supporter. The day when the neighbours were beaten at Wembley in the first FA Cup semi-final for…
Liverpool Win the Carling Cup – It’s only the Mickey Mouse Cup!
So we did it, we finally won a trophy after seeing Liverpool go without one for nearly SIX years! How times have changed since then! We have had new owners, another…
Liverpool FC win the Carling Cup | Full Stats Analysis
Liverpool won their, record, 8th Carling Cup and did it the hard way once again. Sitting in the new Wembley stadium wasn’t easy for the travelling Kop as their Mighty Reds…
Liverpool FC | Players Goals & Assists so far | All Competitions
As a preview to Liverpool’s first Cup Final for almost six years we thought we’d get together some stats on the Carling Cup regarding the goal scorers and players that have…
Whats in store for the rest of Liverpool FC’s season
Well Liverpool fans have not to worry albeit falling to defeat to the scum in a match tainted with controversy as things look bright for the rest of the season. Liverpool…
Liverpool | It’s All About Shooting | Statistical & Graphical Review
Much has been made this season about our lack of goals and our poor conversion rate. In fact, we have been consistently in the bottom three all season when it comes to…
Player Profile: Stewart Downing
On Friday 15th of July 2011 it was announced that Stewart Downing had completed his long awaited move to Liverpool Football Club. It has to be said that this signing has been…
Player Profile: Luis Suarez
Luis Alberto Suárez Díaz, you may know him as just Luis Suarez or El Pistolero (for the way he celebrates his goals). It seems that as Liverpool fans we just can’t get…
Where the game was won | Liverpool FC Vs Arsenal
For the first time in eleven years Liverpool FC recorded a victory away at Arsenal, whether that be at the Emirates or Highbury. It was the first time ever that Liverpool had…
Liverpool’s Creativity | 3 signings that help
In June, not long after we secured our first signing Jordan Henderson, I read a very interesting article on this site by Omar Chaudhuri. It explained how “chance creation”…
Downing & Enrique | Effectiveness Vs BWFC
The left-wing has been an area of weakness for many years at Liverpool. But that problem looks to be resolved with Jose Enrique at left-back and Stewart Downing playing ahead…
Dalglish – Top V Bottom | The Secret to Success
I recently read an article by a fellow Liverpool fan, BassTunedToRed , which went into how many points per game (PPG) Dalglish has achieved in his second stint with…
Player Profile: Steven Gerrard
Steven Gerrard; “Some think he was born with it, a birthright forged by the sharp hand of destiny…I think otherwise. This man’s greatness isn’t inherited; it’s paid…
Stoke City Vs Liverpool FC | Defence v Attack
It was not a good day for Liverpool FC on Saturday, 10th September. A loss to Stoke at the Britannia Stadium for the second consecutive season does not make for good reading….
Is Jamie Carragher Still a Certain Starter for Liverpool?
At the age of 33, time is against Jamie Carragher. This season more than ever, his status as a first choice starter is under intense scrutiny. Big questions are starting to…
A Return to Winning Ways | Liverpool 2 – 1 Wolves
The way you feel at the final whistle usually best encapsulates the performance your team has given that day. After Sunderland there was frustration, Arsenal optimism, Bolton…
Stewart Downing: The First Six Games
Stewart Downing came to Liverpool with many fans feeling that we had settled for second best after United had signed Ashley Young. Some even intimated that, in replacing…
Jordan Henderson | A Central Point
Jordan Henderson is something of a conundrum. To the vocal few he is a waste of money, to many more he is a player of great potential. To nobody, save perhaps the…
Is Carroll starting to fit in?
Fluidity. That’s the word on every Liverpool fan’s lips and how we soon hope to be able to describe our attacking play on a regular basis. Pass and move is part of…
Dirk Kuyt | The man for the big occasion
After spending big in consecutive transfer windows, Liverpool finally have strength in depth in attacking positions. With this though, comes selection problems and, so…
Liverpool V Everton | The Friendly Derby
Welcome to the friendly derby. However, judging by the amount of red and yellow cards in this fixture over the years the players don’t seem to follow the maxim of…
Everton vs Liverpool – Match preview
One of the biggest games of any Liverpool season is just around the corner. For those that don’t know (hardly anyone, probably no one) but we are making the short trip…
Charlie Adam | The story so far
There was no doubt this summer that Liverpool wanted Charlie Adam. They had tried desperately throughout January to prise him from Karl Oyston’s grasp at Blackpool, and…
Reds Need To Be More Clinical
After a defeat or a draw managers try to focus on general team performance and how well their side have played but it is positive results that they most covet, with the…
The Saturday Showdown | Liverpool Vs United
What is undoubtedly the biggest game in England, and one of the biggest in world football returns this Saturday and Liverpool will be looking to ensure that United’s recent…
A Tale Of Two Cities | Liverpool V Manchester
To borrow a well known opening to a classic book; “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the…
Steven Gerrard | Effectiveness vs. MUFC
It was strange to see Steven Gerrard scoring after such a long absence. Strange but excellent. He returned to the starting line-up against Manchester United on Saturday…
Statistical Player Profile: José Enrique
Liverpool has long had a problem with the left-back position ever since John Arne Riise left for Roma in 2008. Yes we had Fabio Aurelio and Emiliano Insua but neither…
Attack is the best form of defence
Too attacking or not too attacking? That is the question. Since arriving in the summer of 2009, Glen Johnson has experienced an indifferent start to this Liverpool career,…
Suarez isolated as United frustrate Reds
The most memorable visual of Liverpool and Manchester United’s recent Anfield encounters has been of an early onslaught, a tidal wave of Red attacking the United back-four…
The Devil Is In The Detail | Liverpool V United | The Aftermath
It was supposed to be the game to end all games. A Clash of the Titans. El Classico, English style. Instead we were left with a damp squib of a football match that only came…
Suarez & Downing | Statistically compared to rivals | Liverpool FC
A lot has been said about the misgivings of Liverpool FC in-front of goal so far this season. A lot of people are laying blame on lack of creativity (Downing & co) and…
Endless Frustration | Liverpool 1 – 1 Norwich Stats Report
Writing a match report after a few days gives you a chance to put the match into perspective. It ignores the irrational venting feeling you get after the game, and stops any…
Three jinxes ended as Liverpool FC defeat Stoke City at the Britannia
In football it is a lovely feeling when a jinx is broken. So how great a night was it for Liverpool FC supporters when three jinxes were broken in one night? It was an…
Are we still dreaming for a team of Carraghers? | Jamie Carragher
“We all dream of a team of Carraghers” goes the Kop chant, but exactly how long will it be before we have a team-less Carragher? At the age of 33, Carragher’s best…
Trick or Treat For Hodgson? Liverpool V West Brom | Tactical Preview
Liverpool face West Bromwich Albion on Saturday in the early evening kick-off, and by lord its difficult not to be sarcastic with Roy Hodgson in the opposition dugout….
Maxi Rodríguez | The unluckiest man in Liverpool
Maxi, Maxi Rodríguez runs down the wing for me. Well, not this season he doesn’t. The subject of one of the Kop’s favoured songs and the hero of the closing games of…
Jose Enrique | Premier League Left Back Statistical Comparison
Before Jose Enrique signed this summer Liverpool FC supporters were calling out for a left back that would add balance and strength to the side. The balance required was to…
Frustration? What Frustration? | West Brom 0 – 2 Liverpool | Stats Report
Frustration? What frustration? Liverpool strolled to victory against West Brom without even looking remotely troubled courtesy of goals from Charlie Adam and Andy Carroll. It…
Craig Bellamy | Could he be the key to attacking fluidity?
Ever since Kenny Dalglish decided to splash £58m in January on strike duo Andy Carroll and Luis Suarez there has been a debate as to how he can get the best out of the pair….
Are Carroll and Suarez finally starting to gel?
It seems strange that having signed Andy Carroll and Luis Suarez during the January transfer window that only now, at the end of October, are we starting to see the first…
Liverpool V Swansea | Football Is A Simple Game? A Tactical Preview
The great man Shankly once said “football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a…
Liverpool’s Defensive Line – With and Without Carragher
There has been an ongoing debate for some time now about the impact Jamie Carragher’s lack of pace has on the Liverpool defensive line. There is a theory that Carragher…
Daniel Agger | Liverpool FC defender compared against Premier League Rivals!
Daniel Agger arrived at Liverpool in 2006 from Brondby for a fee of 6 million Pounds. His growth at Liverpool has been apparent and many consider him to be one of, if not the…
A Familiar Problem | Liverpool FC 0 – 0 Swansea | Statistical Match Report
Liverpool FC continued their trend of dropping points at newly promoted teams with a demoralising 0-0 draw against Swansea. Having dropped 2 at Norwich last week, 2 today,…
Liverpool | Will Be Flying High If They Expose Chelsea High-Line
During the summer one of the key attributes that many fans felt the team was missing was raw pace and the ability to break forward quickly and hit teams on the counter…
Liverpool FC | Is an ‘outdated’ system the way forward?
Upon Kenny Dalglish’s return as Liverpool manager in January 2011, many supposed experts suggested that the club legend had been ‘out of the game’ for too long. …
Liverpool FC | What’s stopping Pepe Reina?
With Liverpool sat in sixth place, three points off of fourth placed Chelsea and an inferior goal difference to the sides above them in the table, what do we need to improve…
Liverpool V Chelsea | A Super Sunday | Statistical Preview
After an international break which seemed like an eternity, next up for Liverpool is a difficult away trip to Stamford Bridge. We are of course no strangers to Chelsea…
Chelsea 1 Liverpool 2 | The Story via Player Influence Pitch Maps
Liverpool FC’s third consecutive away victory was impressive at Stamford Bridge today. Not only was it a third consecutive away victory it was also two in a row at Stamford…
Johnson wins it! Chelsea 1 Liverpool 2 | Stats Match Report
Liverpool made it 3 wins on the bounce against Chelsea with a moral boosting away win at the bridge. The pre match analysis was dominated by talk of Torres and Meireles…
Lucas Leiva | The Brazilian Against The World (Stats analysis)
Lucas Leiva, the player Liverpool fans love, and others love to hate. Recently though, the unBrazilian Brazilian has become a bit of a legend to Liverpool fans, and has…
Goals From Midfield Crucial To Success | Liverpool FC Opta Stats
For years under Rafa Benitez and Roy Hodgson Liverpool were accused of being a one-man, and later two-man, team as the goals of Steven Gerrard and Fernando Torres helped the…
Liverpool V Man City | A Tactical & Stats Preview
This week the billions of Manchester City come to town, and what a game it promises to be. I’m not sure what it is about City, but they don’t seem to attract the same envious…
Liverpool Vs City | The Story via Player Influence Pitch Maps
Another draw at Anfield, this time against a side Liverpool weren’t the favourites to beat. Premier League leaders Manchester City visited Anfield confident of taking away…
Quantifying Lucas’ Absence
The widespread disappointment that met the news of Lucas’ injury is a reflection on the Brazilian’s progress; his tale of zero to hero is now well-repeated in mainstream…
Fulham V Liverpool | Tactical & Stats Preview
And what a week that was. From Chelsea to City and back again. Two fantastic performances put in by the players. Then right back down to earth with the hide-under-the-duvet…
The Challenge Facing Jay Spearing
Following the sad news that Lucas Leiva will miss the remainder of the season after sustaining an anterior cruciate ligament injury in Liverpool’s recent Carling Cup…
To Me, To You | A look at Liverpool centre-back pairings
Hansen and Lawrenson, Hansen and Thompson, Henchoz and Hyypia, Carragher and Hyypia. These are some of the Liverpool centre-back pairings that have been forged over the…
Graft, Craft and How to Fill “The Lucas Role”
Getting the right mix of grafters and crafters is vital to a team’s success. A grafter is the type of player who makes up for any failings in natural technical ability…
Lucas Deserves More From All Of Us
A Sky Sports Man of the Match award at last. Forget the 2010 Liverpool FC Young Player of the Year Award and the Golden Samba awarded from the Kop last season; that man of…
Charlie Adam | Gung-ho glory to midfield responsibility
The arrival of Charlie Adam at Anfield was met, in my quarters, with an expectation of failure. His reputation for being slightly more on the rotund end of the scale in a…
Liverpool dominated until Spearing Sending off | Player Influence Stats
It had been a tough week for Liverpool supporters with the loss of Lucas Leiva to a long term injury and then seeing a whole host of records break at the Cottage it has not…
Liverpool V QPR | Tactical Stats & Graphical Preview
Not a great week for Liverpool Football Club. There is nothing more frustrating than an undeserved defeat. Add to that a spurious F.A. charge for failing to control your…
Liverpool FC 1 QPR 0 | Quick Opta Match Stats
Finally, Liverpool FC managed to win at Anfield after four consecutive stalemates against United, City, Norwich & Swansea. Liverpool needed to bounce back from their…
Liverpool’s MVP: Pepe Reina | Opta Stats
Nearly but not quite. That was the 2008/9 Barclays Premiere League season which made the hope in Red’s hearts rise so very high. Certainly did mine. Saturday 14th March, as I…
Opta Stat Attack | Andy Carroll’s time at Liverpool FC
Most Liverpool supporters have made their minds up on Andy Carroll. A lot of rival club supporters believe he’s been one of the worst transfers in recent history, arguably…
Liverpool V Aston Villa | Stats & Graphical Preview
Next up is a trip to Villa Park where we lost our final league game last year 1-0. The goal scorer for Villa that day our very own winger Stewart Downing. Villa go into the…
Torres vs Suarez (or why can’t we have both?)
Recently there have been rumours surrounding Fernando Torres and a potential move back to Liverpool, almost a year after he went to Chelsea for £50 million. The…
Adam, Downing & Henderson: New boys’ Graduation Day due
I might be witnessing a graduation on Sunday. I hope to see new boys coming of age in a Red shirt. No, not our much criticised, 6 ft plus, work in progress, AC. His…
Do Liverpool need to buy anyone this January?
As we approach the January transfer window Liverpool will be looking to bring in a few new faces to the club and whether those players are stars or up and comers we will find…
A fan’s perspective on the Suarez Racism Ban
So, the FA handed Luis Suarez an 8-match ban yesterday for racially abusing Patrice Evra and this was celebrated in many quarters as a stand against racism in this country….
José Enrique effectiveness vs. Wigan
Quality left-backs at Liverpool have been a premium down the years but the acquisition of José Enrique has proven to be an excellent signing. Defensively, he is everything…
Luis Suarez Smear campaign in full flow | More Evidence
UPDATE: Sky have now announced Suarez as the winner of the 2011 Goals on Sunday Player of the Year competition. Liverpool supporters have felt that there has been a smear…
The Stats Behind Shooting & Creativity for Liverpool FC
It’s the same old story once again for Liverpool FC. Inconsistency once again proved to be Liverpool FC’s failing as they dropped points against two clubs that they really…
Liverpool V Newcastle | Tactical & Stats Report – Prodigal Son Returns
The return of the prodigal son. What more can you say about Steven Gerrard. Back from a long term injury, comes on with 38 minutes left in the game, with the score at…
So close. Yet, so far… | City 3 v Liverpool 0 (02/01/2012)
I just want to start by saying this was originally a forum post, and it was written after the Manchester City game, which we lost 3-0. All these stats are as of 03/01/2012 so…
Liverpool FC | Statistical Mid-Season Report
At the midway point of the 2011/12 English Premier League season Liverpool find themselves with 34 points, in sixth place in the table and facing league leaders Manchester…
Liverpool FC Vs Oldham Athletic | Stats Analysis
So for the first time we’re going to be covering an FA Cup match on AnfieldIndex.com. Also for the first time we’re not going to be using Opta stats as we don’t have access…
How we collected the Liverpool Vs Oldham Stats: Performa Sports App Review
As you may have already read (if not please click here: Liverpool Vs Oldham Stats Analysis) we collected the stats for the Liverpool FC Vs Oldham Athletic game manually. As…
Liverpool – Mid-Term Statistical Report
With the season just over half way gone I thought I’d take a look at Liverpool’s season team stats, see how they compare to other teams at this stage in the Premiership…
Liverpool Striking Options | Who’s going to fill the onion bag?
A poacher, a Rush, an Aldridge, dare I say it an on form, happy Torres. We must’ve all wished for one this season. Suarez is a genius but…
Man City 0 Liverpool 1 | All the Stats from the Carling Cup Semi Final 1st leg
So it was first blood to Liverpool in the Carling Cup semi final after they edged, or rather squeezed past Manchester City, at the Etihad Stadium. If you’d offered Liverpool…
Bolton vs Liverpool | Passing Triangles – Graphical & Stats Preview
Next up is a trip to Owen Coyle’s Bolton Wanderers where we will look to put our recent problems at Anfield behind us and try to continue our good away form. In the…
AnfieldIndex Exclusive: Liverpool FC Stats from Carling Cup Semi-Final 2nd leg
Liverpool FC have finally made it to the new Wembley Stadium and how sweet it is. The road to Wembley was a tough one with Away wins over Stoke, Chelsea and Manchester City…
Skrtel, Agger, Carragher | The Battle for the Centre
This time last year was a good time to be a Liverpool fan. Up until Saturday 8th January 2011 we had endured one of the most challenging times in terms of club form and…
AnfieldIndex Stats: Liverpool 2 Man Utd 1 – FA Cup 4th Round
As promised, we’ve collated Liverpool FC stats from the FA Cup 4th Round tie against Manchester United. It’s taken us most of the day to do so using the footage that was…
The Importance of Being Skrtel
Journey back to October 5th 2008, where Martin Skrtel sustained a severe knee injury, ruling him out for much for much of the 2008-09 season. Now journey forward to the…
When Harry met Kenny: Liverpool v Spurs match preview
By anyone’s standards Liverpool have had a good couple of weeks. Since the debacle that was the defeat to Bolton, some home truths and committed performances have…
Martin Skrtel | Steady as we go Vs Spurs | Stats
Martin Skrtel has split opinions on Merseyside for years. Ever since his move from Zenit St. Petersburg in January 2008, the Slovak has drifted in and out of the Liverpool…
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