I could have gone with a whole plethora of stats to prove Liverpool were just unlucky on the day. Possession-wise they held a 57.4% to 42.6% advantage and also claimed a 51.8% to 48.2% territorial edge. An alarming stat that proves Manchester United were scared to play against us is the only player that spent more than 50% of the match in Liverpool's half was Cristiano Ronaldo at 54%. Or maybe it's just a sign that LFC were the better side on the day?
The most telling figure of all is this:
That is a percentile-based heat map of United's player activity. In other words, they spent 42.45% of the match in their third of the pitch. Just for a frame of reference, in their loss at Bolton, they were in their defensive zone just 23.68% of the time. Bolton were just lucky, right?
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