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#3 Does Liverpool have the best defence in the league?
Liverpool failed to keep a clean sheet today. But if stats are to be considered, then Liverpool indeed have considered the least number of goals in the Premier League so far. Does that outrightly mean that they have the best defence in the league right now? Here's a piece of stat before the beginning of the game which seems to validate this claim:
Well, given the nature of teams that they have played, it is still better to refrain from making this assumption. But what will really strike your mind - in case you have followed the Merseysiders up close this season - is how comfortably Liverpool hit teams on the counter, commit numbers forward, yet when they are hit back, they seem to have things under control.
Van Dijk's assuredness at the back has surely helped the cause of Jurgen Klopp and Co. Joe Gomez has been consistently good as well. Trent Alexander-Arnold has looked a tad underwhelming at times but is yet to commit any blatant mistakes. And the Premier League table-toppers are yet to field "one of the best defenders in the world" by his own admission, Dejan Lovren.
In addition to that, the fact that Roberto Firmino today attempted to contain a Spurs attack by tracking back as far as the left side of the defensive third of the Reds signifies just how almost every Liverpool player puts in a shift defensively. The result of all this? Alisson Becker has remained largely untested throughout the five games the Reds have played in the league so far this season.
Liverpool will surely have more testing ties in the future but the way they have started, their defensive troubles from last season seems to have been sorted out.
