Brendan Rodgers would have likely never thought of this. What prompted Liverpool to score four goals against defending Premier League champion Leicester City?
A change to the color of the goal nets! At least that’s the master plan manager Jurgen Klopp came up with.
Klopp ordered the goal nets be changed from red to white in order to help Liverpool players have better vision of the goals achieve more more scoring strikes. The logic makes sense, as the Anfield fans behind the goal are obviously clad in red.
Via Liverpool’s website: “Jurgen Klopp and his backroom team asked ground staff to change them from red to white in order to make them more visible in the players’ peripheral vision – hopefully leading to more goals being scored by the home side.”
The change was just made this past week for Liverpool’s first home match of the Premier League season. According to FOX Soccer the nets have been red since 2012 and this specific plan was tried once before, in 1995. This year, we only have one game to go on, and obviously the 4-1 result isn’t near enough sample size.
The real reason for the scoring issues Liverpool might have had in recent years? All the busts that Rodgers acquired to play in the attack.
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