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Talking Point: Why Leeds have the tools to dismantle Liverpool – The World Game
Using advanced Opta metrics, we explore how Leeds United can hurt Liverpool at Anfield – and how the champions can respond in kind.
Marcelo Bielsa’s Leeds United head to Anfield on Saturday to meet champions Liverpool in their first Premier League game since 2004.
The Reds have won all but two of their 28 home league matches since the end of 2018, their last defeat on home soil coming against Crystal Palace on April 23, 2017. By anyone’s standards, that is an extraordinary run of form.
Of course, this is no ordinary Leeds. Bielsa’s men finished 10 points clear at the top of the Championship last season and ended 2019-20 wi…
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