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How Liverpool’s Midfield Will (Almost Certainly) Be So Much Better

How Liverpool’s Midfield Will (Almost Certainly) Be So Much Better

Plus, revealing a hidden Alexis Mac Allister superpower

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Jun 21, 2023
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After creating three separate skillset radars for each midfielder the Reds had last season (bar fringe players) and several of the targets for the detailed piece (link below) on the TTT Main Hub...

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Comparing Liverpool's 2022/23 Midfield vs Mac Allister, Thuram, Koné, Gravenberch, Veiga and more
Comparing Liverpool's 2022/23 Old Midfield vs Mac Allister, Thuram, Koné, Gravenberch, Veiga and more While other areas of the team malfunctioned (defensive lapses, poor conversion of big chances by certain players), the midfield was always the Reds' main issue last season, especially with a lack of energy and physicality (made worse by a gruelling 2021/22 and a truncated preseason for 2022/23…
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2 years ago · 45 likes · 26 comments · Paul Tomkins

... I wanted to see if I could distil what I saw as the most important factors the Reds are looking for into a single radar for each player.

Even though data is not everything, it told me that Liverpool's younger midfielders had excellent radars, as do the players the Reds are linked with (and the one signed already).

The worst radars were for the players who seemed, via the eye-test, to have the worst 2022/23 form.

I'll share and analyse the positive news in the article below, for paying ZenDen subscribers, as I hone in a new super-focused and unique radar.

Plus, I've just realised one unique extra thing that I think Alexis Mac Allister will add, based on something I saw from Man City and Arsenal last season, but which Liverpool clearly lacked; and as such, this one thing alone could help close the gap, irrespective of all the other things that will be improved across the midfield and XI in general.

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