Mohamed salah is on course to break premier league creativity records this season.
Liverpool showed how these seemingly linked aspects of football can be completely separated from one another against fulham last weekend. The reds scored four goals, none of which were from a big (or “clear-cut” chance, according to opta).
These are situations where you would expect the attacker to score, and it is impossible to make that happen if every successful shot was fired from distance with opposing players in the way.
The reds, on the other hand, had four big chances, and they just happened to miss them all. They mostly followed familiar routes, with combinations that could soon be setting records.
Even the most productive pairings for generating clear-cut chances only average around one every three games. Liverpool’s top duo from any of the last five seasons was delivered.
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