Dirk Kuyt - The Overview
Dirk Kuyt has been quite an important player for Liverpool Football Club. Ever since he signed in the summer of 2006, he has played an integral part in each season.
In his first season at the club, the Dutchman hit the back of the net 12 times in the league - a fairly decent amount for his first season in a completely new league. Dirk scored the winning penalty in a tense semi-final shootout against Chelsea in the Champions …
Liverpool FC Transfers: Premier League Winger Scouting Stats
Transfers are the main focus of every summer break when the Premier League season has ended. Liverpool FC and Kenny Dalglish appear to be lining up a whole hoard of transfers and will be focusing their priorities on wingers this summer. This article will be looking at how Premier League wingers have performed in the 2010/11 Barclays Premier League season and whether or not we believe they are what Liverpool need (some of these wingers are not available for transfer …
The Kenny Effect
Who would've thought that we would end the 2010/11 season off fighting for European qualification and having probably the best attacking duo in the Premier League? A look at the effect of Kenny Dalglish …
Fulham Vs Liverpool - Basic Match Stats
Despite being at the risk of repeating ourselves from the article "Where the game was won" we just wanted to post some match stats from the Fulham Vs Liverpool game. These stats are normally available to our subscribers but we have used them in match reports before so we thought we'd share them even though we've already done our match report in the article mentioned above …
Where the game was won (Fulham Vs Liverpool Report)
The rest of the Premier League took note as fantastic Liverpool gave a five star performance at Craven Cottage last night. Liverpool scored five goals with another hat-trick from Maxi Rodriguez, Luis Suarez scoring in his second consecutive and Dirk Kuyt matching a 10 year record by scoring in five consecutive games. Liverpool were breaking records of their own as Maxi Rodriguez scored the fastest goal in the Premier League season, netting the opener on 32 seconds.
So where was …
Player Of The Season 2010/11: Lucas V Kuyt
As the end of the season approaches some of our thoughts turn to who is Liverpool's player of the season. I've voted on various polls on blogs, websites and forums. Two players always seem to be on top Lucas and Kuyt.
Lucas now a favourite with the fans has to be one of the most improved players in the Barclay's Premiership. Its has been said so often this season that many of Liverpool's supporters had written the Brazilian off and …
Who do they pass to the most? (Kuyt, Suarez & Lucas)
We were asked a question on our twitter account; Which player is passed the ball the most?
It was a question we couldn't answer as we didn't hold these stats. After some analysis and searching we've found some of the answers thanks to the Guardian.co.uk's excellent Chalkboard service which is run by Opta Data (just like Anfield Index's Stats Centre).
We've covered the last three Liverpool matches, it took long enough to analyse these so doing a whole season for …
A long history of penalty takers
Over the years Liverpool have had some of the most accomplished penalty takers in the game, take the shot from 12 yards for them.
Names like Neal, Mølby, Liddell and Gerrard, the list could go on.
Overall Liverpool have had 75 different successful spot kick takers, since being founded in 1892.
Liverpool have scored a total of 462 spot kicks since their first game nearly 119 years ago.
The most prolific of our 75 spot kick takers was Jan Mølby, who converted 42 of his 45 penalties, closely follow by Phil Neal who scored 38, missing 13 …
Dirk Kuyt, my player of the season
Since Dirk Kuyt’s signing for Liverpool in the summer of 2006 he has gained many plaudits but has also come across his fair share of negative press.
For Liverpool fans he has been nothing short of brilliant since the £10million pound move from Holland.
But this season again he has really risen above the pack and is no doubt one of the first names on his manager’s team sheet each week.
Supporters of other Premier League teams will continue to …
Hodgson Era: Dirk Kuyt
A statistical analysis of Kuyt’s contribution to the Liverpool team in the first half of the 2010/11 Premier League season.
Dirk Kuyt played 16 games for Liverpool in the worst start to a season in living memory. This article will look in detail at how he performed during those 16 games in relation to the rest of the team. Did he prevent the team from slipping further down the table, or was he a primary contributor to the downfall?
Kuyt’s …