Who is reporting it?
Walshy
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If there’s any legs in this I wonder if Heitinga might be coming back, after getting sacked by Ajax? He worked well with Grav and seemed to have good rapport with Slot and the group.
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That’s what I meant - but I tried to be too clever and use only one word for it. 
I hate it when opponents are quicker to react to second balls or if they get the freedom of our midfield or wings and carry the ball for tens of yards before scoring, like Semenyo did or PSV players whose names I can’t recall at the moment. It’s not just the defensive organisation - it’s the desire to win that tackle or the second ball or pull down a player trying to run through the defence.
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What gets me about this statistic is that how well structured snd organised you have to be (as well as fit) to actually play this way. We’re say 5% off maybe. It looks more like 80%.
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I dont think that’s right. Our stats show we are still attempting to press but failing. I think it is reasonable to suggest it has been our lack of aggression, an almost going through the motions, that has contributed to that failing.
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Maybe, I got it from the video that was posted way up now. We’re still near the top for pressing action (aggressive) but clearly crap at it.
That is conflating doing the actions to get credit for a pressing action with playing with sufficient intensity or aggression. The eye test to me says that is not the case, and at minimum the stats highly suggestive of the same thing (i.e. why we’re failing so badly at it)
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I really want a cheese toastie this afternoon.
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More fake news from “Anfield something” Twitter profiles with a blue tick and people just copying without double-checking anything.
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GVB has been linked with the Indonesia national team job, so he might be leaving for that reason.
I don’t know where to put this, so I’ll just leave it here.
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His name always remind me of sausages
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Groundbreaking stuff. Who knew? 
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Did some data crunching myself. Must improve in the scoring more goals than opponent per game stat (xWin + tabl)
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I reckon, from detailed observations, we must improve at football.
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It’s interesting to see it laid out like that. I must say I generally don’t look at stats as I can’t be bothered. I just watch (almost) every game and form opinions based on that. Seeing it laid bare though is quite stark.
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Very interesting, thank you. We all know we were good last season, and bad so far this season, and seeing it broken down like that is quite damning.
The DOF should be asking Slot what the strategy is going to be to improve in all those areas. We have a squad that - if it ever gets fit and firing - should be comfortably top four, and with one or two moves (central defence, Salah replacement) should be poised to fight hard for the league for the duration.
Right now we are not getting anything like the performance level we should see on that pitch.
A win today against Sunderland and let’s try to keep going to get it back.
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The club should be asking what the fuck the stats staff are doing. How that’s being communicated to Slot or not. Then what the fuck is Slot doing with that information.
It’s a quandary to me how we have dropped so badly since, what, February.
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Diaz did often play a significant role in our set up when defending set pieces, so you can see how exchanging him for Wirtz would be something we’d have to accommodate by shifting around some other responsibilities. You could see how that would have some negative impact, but there isnt much else that has changed in terms of personnel that would explain that level of drop off.
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