Liverpool at the moment are on the midway level of their Premier League season, however you’d be excused for pondering we’re quite a bit deeper into 2022/23 than that.
Nineteen league video games have come and gone and calling it a rollercoaster appears like an understatement contemplating the expectations that preceded the primary whistle at Fulham.
Jurgen Klopp‘s facet are a shadow of their former selves, greater than 18 factors off the tempo after 19 video games, and so the main target has shifted to ending within the prime 4.
For some that can really feel optimistic at greatest, however there are nonetheless 57 factors there for the taking and the Reds’ season is salvageable if they begin discovering kind. Pronto.
We don’t must inform you that the Reds’ file is down from final season, however simply the place does it sit compared to Klopp’s earlier campaigns on the helm?
This season vs. final 7
Liverpool’s common level tally after 19 video games is 41.7 since 2015/16, and as everyone knows, the Reds will not be near common this time round.
The Reds have amassed 29 factors within the first half of this marketing campaign, 12.7 wanting the common over the past seven seasons. The downturn has been swift.
The final time they achieved a equally lowly return was in 2015/16 once they collected 30 factors, 2020/21 and 2017/18 will not be far behind on 35.
It’s a brand new low underneath Klopp, one level worse off than when he took the helm after matchday eight in October 2015.
In actual fact, the final time Liverpool did not surpass 30 factors after 19 video games was in 2014/15 when Brendan Rodgers secured simply 28.
If the identical is repeated in subsequent 19?
If Liverpool have been to copy their kind within the first half of the season till Might, the place would that go away them?
Klopp’s facet have dropped factors extra typically than they haven’t, shedding six instances and drawing 5 to see 28 factors go begging.
If the identical trajectory is adopted within the second half of the marketing campaign, Liverpool would finish the season on 58 factors – a whopping 34 factors lower than final season.
It’s a tally that might’ve assured any type of European soccer twice within the final 4 Premier League campaigns.
The bottom place secured with 58 factors since 2018/19 was eleventh (2020/21), and the best achievable ending spot was sixth (2021/22).
29 factors after 19 video games is the bottom return since 2015/16
12.7 factors brief on common underneath Klopp at midway stage
If the identical is repeated, Liverpool would finish 2022/23 with 58 factors
In two of the final 4 seasons 58 was sufficient for European soccer
The final time a season ended with a tally lower than 58 was in 2011/12 underneath Kenny Dalglish, taking simply 52 factors from an out there 114.
It leaves Klopp and his facet with loads of work to do if they’re to outdo their first half-of-the-season efficiency and greater than double their factors tally by Might.
Below the German, Liverpool have greater than doubled their factors tally on three completely different events, 2021/22: 44 factors to 92; 2020/21: 34 to 69; and 2017/18: 35 to 75.
It’s secure to say there’s loads of scope for enchancment so as to add this season to that checklist, however Liverpool are going to have to search out kind with haste.
