Our woeful set-piece coach finally given the boot...
Brigg, oh dear...
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I wonder who set him up for failure?🤔
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Liverpool have parted company with first-team set-piece coach Aaron Briggs.
Set pieces have been an area of glaring weakness for the Premier League champions so far this season and the decision was taken that a change was required.
Excluding penalties, no top-flight side has conceded more goals from set pieces this season than Liverpool’s total of 12 in the Premier League. Only West Ham (10) have conceded more from corners than Liverpool’s seven.
Liverpool are averaging 2.4 goals scored per 100 set pieces. Only Brentford in the Premier League is averaging fewer. In terms of conceding, Liverpool are averaging 8.2 goals per 100 set pieces — only Nottingham Forest average more.
In both of the past two matches against Tottenham Hotspur and Wolverhampton Wanderers, Arne Slot’s side were cruising at 2-0 before letting in a goal from a set piece changed the complexion of the games and left them hanging on.
Briggs, a former Manchester City analyst, joins Slot’s backroom staff in July 2024 as the club’s new first team individual development coach after Vitor Matos’ departure.
Liverpool initially advertised for a set-piece coach but were unable to find the right candidate they gave the responsibility to Briggs instead.
Last summer they brought in Brazilian coach Luiz Fernando Iubel as individual lead coach so Briggs could focus solely on set-pieces but the move has not worked out.
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Liverpool have parted company with first-team set-piece coach Aaron Briggs.
Set pieces have been an area of glaring weakness for the Premier League champions so far this season and the decision was taken that a change was required.
Excluding penalties, no top-flight side has conceded more goals from set pieces this season than Liverpool’s total of 12 in the Premier League. Only West Ham (10) have conceded more from corners than Liverpool’s seven.
Liverpool are averaging 2.4 goals scored per 100 set pieces. Only Brentford in the Premier League is averaging fewer. In terms of conceding, Liverpool are averaging 8.2 goals per 100 set pieces — only Nottingham Forest average more.
In both of the past two matches against Tottenham Hotspur and Wolverhampton Wanderers, Arne Slot’s side were cruising at 2-0 before letting in a goal from a set piece changed the complexion of the games and left them hanging on.
Briggs, a former Manchester City analyst, joins Slot’s backroom staff in July 2024 as the club’s new first team individual development coach after Vitor Matos’ departure.
Liverpool initially advertised for a set-piece coach but were unable to find the right candidate they gave the responsibility to Briggs instead.
Last summer they brought in Brazilian coach Luiz Fernando Iubel as individual lead coach so Briggs could focus solely on set-pieces but the move has not worked out.
The reference to his involvement in analysis probably indicates why we gave him the job. Quite a lot of the work the analysis guys do is around set-pieces, although the focus tends to be more on exploiting weaknesses in the opposition defence rather than how we defend against them.
When I joined the club they did an open evening at Melwood at the end of my first week (never happened again, FWIW) and the analysis guys were very keen to highlight a goal we'd scored against City (Skrtel header) where they'd identified that City's set up left them vulnerable at the back post from corners. So we'd targeted the delivery and our most aggressive header of the ball to be in that space. It's noticeable because you normally expect to see the centre-halves in the middle of the box, but Skrtel was at the back post and made a run into the danger area.
The analysis guys were, understandably, quite pleased with themselves (in truth, I think this was a rare success, either because opposition teams didn't always set up the same way against us, or because the players didn't execute the plan properly on match day). Skrtel probably got a £20-30k goal bonus, the analysis team (many of whom were students from JMU earning minimum wage) got a few £100 each.
I remember wondering why we had inexperienced students doing this job rather than qualified coaches / former players who would have had a better eye for patterns of play and defensive set-ups. It just felt like an after-thought. Oddly, it looks like we're still way behind the curve more than a decade later.
When I joined the club they did an open evening at Melwood at the end of my first week (never happened again, FWIW) and the analysis guys were very keen to highlight a goal we'd scored against City (Skrtel header) where they'd identified that City's set up left them vulnerable at the back post from corners. So we'd targeted the delivery and our most aggressive header of the ball to be in that space. It's noticeable because you normally expect to see the centre-halves in the middle of the box, but Skrtel was at the back post and made a run into the danger area.
The analysis guys were, understandably, quite pleased with themselves (in truth, I think this was a rare success, either because opposition teams didn't always set up the same way against us, or because the players didn't execute the plan properly on match day). Skrtel probably got a £20-30k goal bonus, the analysis team (many of whom were students from JMU earning minimum wage) got a few £100 each.
I remember wondering why we had inexperienced students doing this job rather than qualified coaches / former players who would have had a better eye for patterns of play and defensive set-ups. It just felt like an after-thought. Oddly, it looks like we're still way behind the curve more than a decade later.
You're trying to blame Slot for the crap purple masks? Ffs
Its not really given we’re the worst team in regards to set pieces in the top 5 leagues in Europe.
Its his responsibility and something had to be done.
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