Hello everyone and welcome to the Liverpool.com podcast. I am your host most duet and I'm joined by James Martin and Charlotte Coates and this week's subject is inspired by Liverpool's comfortable win against Crystal Palace at the weekend and specifically how Liverpool got that win because all three goals came from

set pieces.

And if you look into the data,

as I have been able to,

thanks to the great work of everybody's favorite stats guy,

Andrew Beasley, resident of this parish.

Liverpool, if you look at the stats are supposed to be very good

at set pieces. In fact, we're the best according to the stats.

If you go back to the start of 2018-19

we scored 11 more goals than anybody else and only two teams have conceded fewer

than us and yet I think we can all remember watching games,

throwing our hands up in the air and frustration

about set pieces that hit the first man

or that hit someone in the back of this cop,

or just they don't look as good. So I wanted to do a deep dive into this and find out are we that good? If so, why and can we get better? So, James, I want to start with you

by kind of setting the table in terms of set pieces.

Because set pieces themselves,

they've got a little bit of a strange relationship

with a lot of fans.

I mean, they are the kind of thing that everybody does.

And so by that rationale, they're often dismissed as the kind of thing that teams do

when they can't really score a goal in any other method.

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