Joe Allen Passes

Joe Allen will miss the rest of the season due to surgery he will have to receive on his left shoulder.  While the Reds will no longer be able to rely on Allen in their remaining games, first-team doctor Zaf Iqbal was optimistic in regards to the midfielder’s availability for the start of the new league campaign in August: [quote]Joe Allen is due to have a left shoulder operation in Liverpool tomorrow morning and will be ready to return to football at the beginning …

Liverpool began their season with a disappointing result against West Bromwich Albion at the Hawthorns. Much has been made since Brendan Rodgers' appointment about his passing philosophy, so the focus here will be upon analysing how Liverpool passed the ball against West Brom. Passing network analysis One method of analysing passing by a football team is network analysis, which I've used previously to assess Liverpool's passing against FC Gomel. The idea with network analysis is that the connections between players are …