How Liverpool's leaky back-line can be improved – and why it must be for next season

There’s an old saying in football that goes something like this: strikers win you matches, but defenders win you titles. It’s backed up by statistical evidence, too – in The Numbers Game, a recent book about stats in football, it was shown that sides with the best defence win major league titles more frequently than the sides with the best attack.

 

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