Dissecting Liverpool's Defending Against Norwich City
The dust has settled on what the scoreline suggests will be looked back upon as a Premier League classic. But, in truth, Liverpool's game against Norwich ended 5-4 only because of some horrible defending, especially from the visitors.
As I will try to show by the end of this piece, none of the four goals that we conceded yesterday stemmed from brilliant Norwich play. All four goals could have been avoided by just sticking to the basics of defending.
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