Fulham 2 Liverpool 3: Stats Round Up
What a match at Craven Cottage! Time to round-up the key stats from the match and the season so far.
Every outfield player for Liverpool completed more passes than Fulham's top passer, Lewis Holtby, who was accurate with thirty-two passes.
The whole Fulham team created six chances and completed five dribbles; Raheem Sterling created four chances and completed four dribbles on his own
Daniel Sturridge scored a goal and assisted another in the same match for the sixth time for Liverpool. He has never got an assist for the Reds without scoring in the same game.
His assist for Coutinho was Sturridge's fourth of the season, and the first that wasn't for Luis Suárez.
Via @infostradalive:
Daniel Sturridge’s has scored in his last 7 PL appearances – the first Liverpool player to do so in the Premier League.
Sturridge now averages a goal contribution per game for Liverpool - thirty goals and seven assists in thirty-seven appearances:
Liverpool have now scored fifty-eight goals when both Sturridge and Suárez have been on the pitch together at a rate of one every thirty-four minutes. With three tonight, that seems about right!
Via @Optajoe:
9 - Steven Gerrard has matched his best ever total of assists in a PL season (level with 2012-13 & 2008-09). Vintage.
The skipper now has ten assists for the season in all competitions, which is the joint-most for Liverpool, along with Suárez.
Gerrard assisted Sturridge for the fourth time this season; only Henderson to Suárez, with five, has been a more productive combination in 2013/14.
Luis Suárez hit the woodwork for the sixth time this season; no other player in the league has done so more than three times.
Joao Teixeira came on to make his Liverpool debut. He is the ninth player to do so this season, and the 22nd under Brendan Rodgers.
The Reds scored three goals, including a penalty, hit the post, scored an own goal and committed a defensive error leading to a Fulham goal. Never dull, is it?!
It's not all good though: Liverpool have now conceded two-or-more in nine of their thirteen away league games this season, and nineteen out of thirty-two in total under Rodgers (read more on that here).
The Reds have now scored for sixteen league games in a row. This is the longest such run by any team in the top flight this season, and Liverpool have only had a longer run in one previous Premier League campaign.
Liverpool have now scored sixty-six goals this season; they've only scored more in eight of the previous twenty-one complete Premier League seasons.
The Reds have now scored ninety-three goals in their last thirty-eight league games - for the period since 2004/05, this is a new club record.
Liverpool have now taken sixteen points more than they got from their corresponding fixtures last season. This is currently a larger improvement than every other team in the division.
Liverpool now have more points (fifty-three) than they earned in the whole of 2011/12, with twelve games still to play.
The Reds have taken a quite incredible seventy-eight points from their last thirty-eight league games. The last time they had done so well? After the Fulham away match in October 2009.
This was the Reds' first win after going behind since the corresponding fixture at Craven Cottage last season.
If Liverpool win their next match, they will have more points after twenty-seven games than in every previous Premier League season. Yes, even 2008/09!
Not a great performance by any means, but a fantastic result. And now you're going to believe us?!
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