@jamesbenge

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Jason Wilcox should sign some midfielders
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Amazing thing is a lot of the best PSG and Barcelona players have looked a little way off it tonight. This could have been better.
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The greatest shot blocking elite team I can think of
James Benge@jamesbenge9 Apr 2024
"You cannot just allow players to shoot at your goal. We have to prevent every possible scenario that occurs before that." Arsenal are blocking shots at one of the highest rates in recent PL history cbssports.com/soccer/news/ar…
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James Benge@jamesbengeOct 17
Florian Wirtz leads the league in chances created, a sign of a player living up to lofty expectations. Florian Wirtz leads the league in fouls committed, a sign of a player who can’t adapt to England’s physicality. Maybe the truth is somewhere between. cbssports.com/soccer/news/li…

Will Liverpool ever see the best version of Florian Wirtz? - CBS Sports

Liverpool's $135 million playmaker leads the Premier League in chances created, but ongoing physical struggles raise questions about whether he can ever truly dominate in England

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Florian Wirtz leads the league in chances created, a sign of a player living up to lofty expectations. Florian Wirtz leads the league in fouls committed, a sign of a player who can’t adapt to England’s physicality. Maybe the truth is somewhere between. cbssports.com/soccer/news/li…

Will Liverpool ever see the best version of Florian Wirtz? - CBS Sports

Liverpool's $135 million playmaker leads the Premier League in chances created, but ongoing physical struggles raise questions about whether he can ever truly dominate in England

cbssports.com
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Florian Wirtz created nine chances today for Liverpool. No one has created more in a Premier League match since September 2021, when Bruno Fernandes created 10 against Aston Villa.
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Important caveat to that number, so many of those chances created aside from the assist are from sideways passes around the box. Now there's value in them but it's not quite lock-picking around the final third. Wirtz did that but not as often as that stat would make you think.
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FT Brentford 1, Liverpool 2 - Good game that. Felt like if the 10 men had held out for another 5 or so minutes there was a win in it for them. Instead Liverpool get three hard-earned points. Jacquet and Van Dijk excellent.
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1-2, Isak
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1-1, Munoz. Nice pass from Wirtz to find him running in behind, smart check onto his left and low finish.
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1-0, Lewis-Potter. Brentford good value for their lead.
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Penalty to Liverpool. Wirtz slips Isak in behind, the No.9 cuts back to a dangerus area and Outtarra goes sliding in. Replays show he gets the ball and perhaps not much of Mac Allister. This'll get VAR checked.
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Overturned. You can see how John Brooks saw that wrong. It's quite quickly fixed. Good process.
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Ooooft, Liverpool clear a corner and the ball bounces to Barcola. Through on goal and he curls the ball wide from just outside the box. A loose finish.
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Brentford for me today - one of the league’s best attacks so far this season in action. They host Liverpool.
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This is where you see the positives of the league phase. Three points are so valuable in a condensed schedule that you see a lot of teams conclude their best bet is to go down swinging.
James Benge@jamesbengeOct 14
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78 goals across the two nights. 71 the previous record. Lot of fun all that.
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70 goals in the Champions League this week. Two more to break the record for a matchweek.
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78 goals across the two nights. 71 the previous record. Lot of fun all that.
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Going to need a camera on Noel Gallagher for the next 45
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Not sure that City's one man midfield strategy worked that well against Sunderland. Really not working well at all against the back to back European champs.
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