Liverpool giving away more high-quality chancespublished at 15:39 BST 30 September
Tom McCoy
BBC Sport journalist

Liverpool may be reigning Premier League champions and the current leaders but they have been guilty of occasional defensive lapses this season, including in Saturday's defeat at Crystal Palace.
Head coach Arne Slot isn't pinning the blame on his backline, however. He said at Monday's news conference: "One of our strengths last season was keeping the other team away from goal and normally that doesn't start with your defenders."
Slot insists the devil is in the detail, pointing out that four of the seven top-flight goals his team have conceded came from set-pieces.
At this stage 12 months ago, the Merseysiders had conceded just two goals, neither of which was from a set-piece. They also earned four clean sheets in their first six games, twice as many as in the current campaign.
Despite changes to personnel leaving Liverpool with a slightly more attacking line-up, they haven't faced more shots or shots on target in the current campaign – those numbers are largely similar. But they are conceding far more high-quality chances, with the expected goals total by their opponents 2.4 greater than at the same stage in 2024-25.
As a result, there has been a dramatic drop in the Reds' save percentage, which has fallen from almost 90% to 56%.
That is not a reflection on goalkeeper Alisson. The expected goals on target model, external, which takes into account how accurate and powerful shots are, only has him underperforming by half a goal in 2025-26, and little should be read into that.
Instead, Liverpool need to give the Brazilian better protection, particularly from set-pieces.