Among Liverpool’s countless problems this season is their frequent inability to convert their best opportunities. In only one of their 20 league matches have they scored both of their two highest expected goal value shots.
The Reds have missed 45 Opta-defined big (or ‘clear-cut’) chances, at least seven more than any other side in the Premier League. There are worse problems to have – their attack remains top-four standard while their defence absolutely does not – but it would obviously paper over other cracks in the team if a few more goals were scored.
Liverpool have won eight and drawn one of the nine league matches in which they have led this term, after all. Darwin Nunez has squandered 16 big chances, the most of any player in the division, while Mohamed Salah is joint-third on 12 (with Erling Haaland in-between with 14).
