Darth hosts the full team of Hamzah, Dr Barts and Si to review the big Derby win over Everton. The lads discuss:
• Lineups and gameplans
• Statspack - Possession, XG, XA, XT, Shots, Big Chances, Game State, Defensive Errors, Monte Carlo
• Moyes/Slot and the changing nature of PL managers
• First half problems
• Tarkowski horror challenge discussion
• Luis Diaz praise
• Salah form and the Trent-shaped hole
• 2nd half turnaround, on-ball changes, off-ball changes
• Jota's goal and opta touches
• Seeing the game out - Slot's signature?
Statspack: https://drbarts.quarto.pub/match-day-30-season-2425/#line-up
Darth hosts the full team of Hamzah, Dr Barts and Si to review the League Cup final defeat to Newcastle
• Liverpool lineup - selection debates
• Newcastle lineup and gameplan
• Statspack - Possession, XG, XA, XT, Shots, Big Chances, Game State, Defensive Errors, Monte Carlo
• First half round table - why was the first half so terrible?
• Quansah discussion and the importance of TAA
• Set piece analysis
• Throwing shit at a wall
• The impact of pitch size on LFC performance
• International Break fatigue index preview
Statspack: https://drbarts.quarto.pub/lc-match-day-final-season-2425/#line-up
Hamzah is away so Darth hosts Dr Barts and Si to review going 15 points clear in the Premier League and then being dumped out of Europe by PSG.
• Southapton lineup
• Statspack - Possession, XG, XA, XT, Shots, Big Chances, Game State, Defensive Errors, Monte Carlo
• First half lack of urgency
• Forwards debate
• Cheap goals again
• Game state update - brilliance AND negative variance
• 2nd half turnaround analysis
• PSG lineup
• Statspack - Possession, XG, XA, XT, Shots, Big Chances, Game State, Defensive Errors, Monte Carlo
• Fast start
• Cheap goals part deux
• First half knife-edge
• 2nd half changes - Reds dominant but how?
• Trent injury the decisive moment?
• Sub-optimal shootout?
Statspacks:
Saints: https://drbarts.quarto.pub/match-day-28-season-2425/#match-summary
PSG: https://drbarts.quarto.pub/cl-match-day-r16-leg-2-season-2425/#match-summary
Darth hosts Dr Barts, Hamzah and Si to review the famous home win in Paris. The lads discuss
• Lineups and gameplans
• Statspack - Possession, XG, XA, XT, Shots, Big Chances, Game State, Defensive Errors, Monte Carlo
• Threat to XG explainer
• Nerdy tech chat on GPS vs video accuracy and margin of error
• Quiet start
• PSG take control
• Luckypool - Offside and Konate
• Alisson vs PSG
• Alisson stat-fest
• 2nd half changes - Slot as Mou?
• Analysing how poor LFC were in attack
• Subs make us better (again)
• Salah/Ramadan discussion
• Harvey's career highlight
Statspack: https://drbarts.quarto.pub/cl-match-day-r16-leg-1-season-2425/#line-up
Hamzah is away so Darth hosts Dr Barts and Si to review the decisive home win against Newcastle. The lads discuss:
• Lineups and gameplans - our best XI?
• Statspack - Possession, XG, XA, XT, Shots, Big Chances, Game State, Defensive Errors, Monte Carlo
• Do the stats reflect the quality of the performance?
• Kostas chat
• The importance of threat
• Trent to Salah again
• Salah in The Matrix
• Replacing the irreplaceable
• A role for Endo?
Darth hosts Dr Barts, Si and Hamzah for a mega-pod to review the 2 massive Premier League away games at Villa and Man City. On a marathon pod the lads discuss
• Villa lineups and gameplans - reasons for the 4 midfielders?
• Villa statspack - Possession, XG, XA, XT, Shots, Big Chances, Game State, Defensive Errors, Monte Carlo
• How did we go in at half time losing? Soft goals again.
• 2nd half domination
• Fatigue Index part 1 - why Trent/Jota had to come off
• That miss and nerdy XT/XG discussion
• Villa subs and villa control
• Grav the Rodri shaped problem? Discussing Hamzah's tour de force for the Times on Saturday
• City lineups and gameplans - City drop all the slow lads
• City statspack - Possession, XG, XA, XT, Shots, Big Chances, Game State, Defensive Errors, Monte Carlo
• Szobo the best off player in the PL
• KdB and the glue factory
• Tactical analysis at 0-0
• Slot schooling Pep, LFC control the centre and the phases
• Toothless City, what if Haaland had played?
• Is the LFC Swiss Army Knife back?
• Fatigue Index part 2 - a team for Newcastle?
Statspacks:
Villa: https://drbarts.quarto.pub/match-day-29-season-2425/
City: https://drbarts.quarto.pub/match-day-26-season-2425/
Darth hosts Dr Barts, Si and Hamzah to review the Premier League double header against Everton and Wolves
• The Michael Oliver conspiracy
• Everton statspack: Possession, XG, XA, XT, Shots, Big Chances, Game State, Defensive Errors, Monte Carlo
• Lineups and gameplans
• Everton level the playing field
• Liverpool build up issues part 1: fullbacks and Grav
• Branthwaite discussion
• Subs make us better
• Salah now operating in a higher state of consciousness?
• Salah vs Messi at same age update
• Everton equaliser analysis and fallout
• Wolves lineups - fatigue index update
• Losing the running and sprinting analysis
• Liverpool build up issues part deux: fullbacks and Grav
• Conceding lots of shots when leading: how much of a trend and how much of an issue?
• It's garbage time until it isn't
• The benefits of not watching live
Statspacks:
Everton: https://drbarts.quarto.pub/match-day-15-season-2425/
Wolves: https://drbarts.quarto.pub/match-day-25-season-2425/
Darth hosts Dr Barts to discuss the last domestic cup games as the reds reach another League Cup final, but do fall out the FA Cup losing to Plymouth.
Statspack: https://drbarts.quarto.pub/lc-match-day-sf2-season-2425/
Darth hosts Dr Barts, Si and Hamzah to review the PSV game and the big win at Bournemouth.
• Fatigue Index, as now featured in The Times
• PSV statspack: Possession, XG, XA, XT, Shots, Big Chances, Game State, Defensive Errors, Monte Carlo
• That PSV team selection and what it means
• How to analyse young players when they're in scratch sides
• Zero injuries for a league game in February, how did we do it?
• Bournemouth lineups and gameplans, long ball rate
• Bournemouth statspack: Possession, XG, XA, XT, Shots, Big Chances, Game State, Defensive Errors, Monte Carlo
• The unique challenge of Bournemouth - Antoine Semenyo sets a record
• Game of chicken - Mo/Kerkez/Grav/Semenyo
• Penalty discussion
• Szobo brilliance on and off the ball
• Bournemouth cause stress 45-60
• Curtis Jones analysis
• Alisson back in the black since United nadir
• Salah vs Messi at same age update
• Trent injury prognosis
