Darth hosts Hamzah, Barts and Si to review the New Years Day shellacking of Newcastle. On the most upbeat pod of the season so far the lads discuss:
* The return of our favourite opposition manager
* Liverpool lineups, sports science explainer of 2 days off
* Newcastle lineup and gameplan
* Key match summary and stats: Possession, XG, XT and Big Chances
* XG record breakers
* Public stats tangent – what will be the next advanced metric to make it to the mass media?
* Newcastle manage to keep it quiet – for 10 minutes
* Why was the counterpressing so good? Deep dive on what has changed from last season and earlier this season.
* First penalty and example of good counterpressing
* Curtis Jones tribute, Posssession Control analysis
* Newcastle disallowed goal – did we think it was going to be “one of those days”?
* Darwin Nunez discussion
* Start of 2nd half – Reds reset
* The genius of Mo Salah, LFC goal analysis