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"Jurgen Klopp hailed Liverpool's counter-pressing performance as their best so far in the 5-1 win against Hull City, but how have the players reached this level?"

"You see these goals everywhere in Liverpool, I'd pass them all the time. There was no escaping the emerging pattern with the locations of the goals, places where economic truths are laid bare. I thought about how increasingly disenfranchised the kids playing in these goals are from society. What are their goals in life? Their urban goals. The painted goalmouth, such a simple, yet iconic symbol of inner city life framed this perfectly."

"Gérard Houllier, l'ancien sélectionneur des Bleus, a aussi fait le bonheur du FC Liverpool et du Paris Saint-Germain. Une des clés de son succès : le recrutement, qui passe par la recherche de renseignements très précis sur un joueur. Un travail qu'il compare à de l'espionnage industriel."

""And I think that, there's a lot of this happening in the game now, these Moneyball ideas about looking at statistics of players and bypassing the manager's thoughts, and I think it's wrong."

"Pourtant il y en a entre 40 et 50 par match. De plus, comme on ne peut pas être hors jeu sur une touche, ça peut très vite devenir une véritable arme offensive. Il y a la touche longue, qui fait office de corner ouvert, la touche rapide pour mener une contre-attaque et la touche intelligente qui permet de garder le contrôle du ballon quand l'équipe est sous pression. La touche longue, on peut facilement l'améliorer avec de l'entraînement, il est assez simple de gagner entre 5 et 10 mètres sur un lancé. Il y a entre 25 et 30 aspects techniques qui entrent en jeu pour une touche longue. C'est un geste que les latéraux, en priorité, doivent travailler."

"After a match, the tracking data is reprocessed and much more accurate. There is also a bank of tracking data for every team in the Premier League over the last three or four seasons, meaning this modelling can become an important part of pre-match analysis of an opponent. The modelling is also valuable for post-match analysis of your own team's performance, and during his presentation Spearman talks about "player trend opportunities" for a right-back (pictured above). Recruitment is also a key area of application. At Christmas, Waskett explained: "The advantage is we see all the players at the same time, which means we can analyse all the players in the Premier League and a large number of players in other leagues around the world. That gives us some really good information on which players are doing well and who we might be able to sign in the future.""