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Liverpool FC win the Carling Cup | Stats

Liverpool won their, record, 8th Carling Cup and did it the hard way once again. Sitting in the new Wembley stadium wasn’t easy for the travelling Kop as their Mighty Reds edged over the finishing line with a nail-biting penalty shoot-out in which they’d missed their first two penalties!

Goals from Martin Skrtel and Dirk Kuyt looked to have been enough with a few minutes to go in extra time however Cardiff City never gave up and squeezed the ball over the line so the match was forced into sudden death.

Below are statistics that we collated manually using the Performa Sports iPad App. This app allows us to record each statistic manually whilst watching the game. A very long-winded task so we hope you enjoy the statistics collated in this article.

Please note that these statistics are not from Opta and will not match their accuracy as they have replay free match feeds whereas we can only collate stats from whatever is shown by the television channels. Therefore we may have missed passes, duels or tackles due to replays shown on the screen.

Also note these have been collated by myself and not a group of statisticians.

Passing Performance

So without wasting any more of your time let’s get onto the statistics. To begin with let’s look at Liverpool’s passing statistics. A 120 minute match resulted in 650 passes for Liverpool. No way near as many as Manchester City managed against Blackburn in 90 minutes but still a large amount of passes (believe me I’ve had to record each pass!).

Here’s a column chart to show the passes and accurate passes:

If you’re looking for the raw numbers we’ve added them in a table below. As the table shows Steven Gerrard attempted the most Open Play passes and was accurate with 95.70% of them. An outstanding amount of passes completed. On watching the replay yesterday (to collate these stats as I was at Wembley myself – Block 121) I appreciated Gerrard’s performance a lot more.

Yes, he was very wasteful in front of goal but he had an off day in that area however he made so many driving runs forward with the ball and there were also so many occasions where he’d made a run only for Henderson or Suarez to not find him with the first time flick on. When those passes and positional moves come off it looks very impressive but we take them for granted. Some Liverpool players didn’t get the timing right of their passes especially Suarez who’s passing accuracy was the lowest in the team at 65.85%. Bellamy almost made as many passes as Suarez in the game however Bellamy does tend to drop pretty deep to pick up the ball whilst Suarez will work in between the lines of defence and midfield or run down channels trying to make a lot more difficult passes.

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Other notable mentions were Bellamy who achieved a 97.14% pass accuracy, Stewart Downing managed 91.53% and there were two players on exactly the same number of passes and accuracy: Pepe Reina & Daniel Agger. For information purposes we’ve included Pepe’s distribution by hand as a pass too. They both achieved 33/37 passes resulting in an 89.19% accuracy.

On the whole Liverpool achieved a Pass Accuracy of 87.69%, their highest of the season so their passing was on top form.

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