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The Rise of the Eights, the Fall of the Fullbacks

The Double Pivot: Soccer analysis, analytics, and commentary

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Liverpool's Progressive Receptions in the WM

There's no there's not really a way that you can get this personnel to be in a back three with two in front of them. You see some indicators of this change in particular, progressive receptions by fullbacks drop from about 11 per 90 to about eight per 90. So they are progressing the ball more through the wings and less to the fullbacks. But the percentage of crosses by fullbacks is based the same and it's very high 57 58% both seasons.

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