Liverpool dominate ‘best in the league’ list, but one weakness is hard to ignore

Liverpool’s squad depth has been under the microscope for months, but a new breakdown of the Premier League’s “best and worst players” at specific skills has landed as mostly positive reading for us.

The piece, written by Ryan O’Hanlon, uses a “fine-grain dataset” from Gradient Sports to hand out superlatives across the league, and Liverpool players keep appearing in the categories that usually correlate with control, athleticism and repeatable performance.

The only sting in the tail...