re: tOfficial Liverpool 2019/2020Thread: Back on our Perch

So, being a math dweeb on top of still being pissed off about the game yesterday, I did a quick-and-dirty statistical study.

Possession in yesterday's match was Liverpool 68%, MU 32%. Considering the 90+6 minutes official time in the match, that works out to possession of 65 minutes for Liverpool and 31 minutes for MU.

Fouls called by Atkinson on each team: 14 on Liverpool, 6 on MU.

What that works out to statistically is that Martin Atkinson averaged a foul called on Liverpool every 2.2 minutes of MU possession (31 minutes of MU possession/ 14 fouls called on Liverpool).

MU? A foul called every 10.8 minutes of Liverpool possession (65 minutes of Liverpool possession/6 fouls called on MU).

That is just a MASSIVE statistical difference. Atkinson was calling fouls on Liverpool at nearly 5x the frequency of that on MU. Added to the fact that official EPL statistics show that Livepool, as a squad, is apt to foul much less than MU.