Looking at Liverpool's current
midfield dynamic, Henderson himself is the
team's custodian
of the creative controller role, but not after having journeyed through an eclectic range
of midfield positions.
Firstly, the ultimate attacking aim
of the
team is to create high quality goal - scoring chances by flooding the
midfield with
dynamic, attack - minded players who can execute on our vertical, counter-pressing style
of play.
Part
of this problem could be considered to be that the most used central
midfield pairing, Lucas Leiva and Charlie Adam, aren't particularly
dynamic nor inclined to get on the end
of crosses (
of which Liverpool have had more, per game, than any other
team in the league apart from Wolves — more
of which, will be discussed later), so this only leaves a certain number
of players who will be able to get into the box in the more rigid 4 -4-2 utilised for most
of this season. Inspite
of this, however, 58 %
of Liverpool's goals have come from inside the 18 yard box, the highest in the league so far this season in terms
of percentage
of goals scored by each individual
team, suggesting that this is the best avenue
of attack for Liverpool, so the question has to be: why have Liverpool only managed to score 14 times, the 10th lowest amount
of goals in the league?