If you can’t beat them, join them. After spending much of the first half of the season increasingly frustrated by his side’s inability to defend against set pieces, Arne Slot’s side have now become the Premier League’s set-piece leaders.
All three first-half goals in Liverpool’s 5-2 win over West Ham United were statistically recognised as being ‘scored from a set piece’, remarkably meaning that it was seven consecutive league goals scored from such a method for the Reds.
