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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
Sport
Andrew Beasley

Man United have helped Liverpool surpass Man City in surge that will have rivals worried

Football is such a strange game sometimes. A team can have, say, the same number of shots in two different matches and have a vastly different total of goals to show for their efforts when the full-time whistle blows.

Liverpool appear hellbent on proving this idea correct in 2022/23. To use a very specific example, they have had two league games this season in which they had exactly eight shots on target. One of them ended 0-0 at Goodison Park, the other saw them put seven goals past Manchester United.

If we look at the 17 other instances of a team having that many attempts on target in a Premier League game in 2022/23, none of them failed to score nor netted seven times. Yet for the Reds, this sort of thing is rare but not without precedent.

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