Liverpool captain Virgil van Dijk put his side’s feeble defence of their Premier League title down to a ruinous set-piece record, which he described as “the killer.”
The Reds were once one of the division’s most dominant dead-ball teams. Cottoning on to the idea that this once unheralded aspect of the sport could be exploited without the need of anything more than time on the training pitch thanks to their data team, it was one of the many edges exploited during Jürgen Klopp’s triumphant spell.
