Liverpool and Manchester City fought to a 1-1 draw at Anfield, in which Manchester City started the brighter but Liverpool came back very strong in the second half. We have some real quick Opta stats for you to ponder over tonight as the match is fresh in your mind! Hopefully these stats should give you some indication of which players excelled in today’s game.
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Most Passes:
Liverpool: Lucas Leiva – 75
Manchester City: Gareth Barry – 78
Most Accurate Passes:
Liverpool:Â Lucas Leiva – 69
Manchester City:Â Gareth Barry & Yaya Toure – 69
Best Passing Accuracy:
Liverpool:Â Lucas Leiva – 92%
Manchester City:Â Joleon Lescott – 93%
Best Passing Accuracy in Own Half:
Liverpool:Â Pepe Reina – 100% – 12/12
Manchester City:Â Yaya Toure – 100% – 36/36
Best Passing Accuracy in Opposing Half:
Liverpool:Â Lucas Leiva – 95% – 39/41
Manchester City:Â Gareth Barry – 87% – 40/46
Best Passing Accuracy in Final Third:
Liverpool:Â Lucas Leiva – 94% – 15/16
Manchester City:Â Gael Clichy – 91% – 10/11
Top Tackler:
Liverpool:Â Lucas Leiva – 7 tackles, 100% won
Manchester City:Â Joleon Lescott – 5 tackles, 100% won
Most Ground Duels Attempted
Liverpool:Â Lucas Leiva, Dirk Kuyt & Luis Suarez – 16 duels attempted
Manchester City:Â Joleon Lescott – David Silva – 13 duels attempted
Most Ground Duels Won
Liverpool:Â Lucas Leiva – 13 ground duels won
Manchester City:Â Gareth Barry – 8 ground duels won
Most Aerial Duels Attempted
Liverpool:Â Dirk Kuyt – 7 duels attempted
Manchester City: Micah Richards – 4 duels attempted
Most Aerial Duels Won
Liverpool:Â Lucas Leiva – 4 aerial duels won
Manchester City:Â Gareth Barry & Micah Richards – 2 aerial duels won
Most Chances Created
Liverpool:Â Glen Johnson, Charlie Adam, Dirk Kuyt & Luis Suarez all created 2 chances – all in open play apart from Adam’s 2 set pieces.
Manchester City:Â David Silva – 3 – Two open play, one from set piece which was the assist for the goal.
Most Shots
Liverpool:Â Luis Suarez, Stewart Downing & Charlie Adam all had 3 shots.
Manchester City:Â David Silva & Yaya Toure had 2 shots each.
Most Shots on Target
Liverpool:Â Luis Suarez – 2 on target
Manchester City:Â David Silva, Sergio Aguero & Vincent Kompany – 1 on target each
Total Attempts to Dribble past Opponent
Liverpool:Â Luis Suarez – 9 attempts
Manchester City:Â Yaya Toure – 5 attempts
Successfully dribble past/beaten Opponent
Liverpool:Â Luis Suarez & Jose Enrique – 3 successful dribbles
Manchester City:Â David Silva & Yaya Toure – 2 successful dribbles
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