To compare this season then...
So we have more shots, more on target, score more goals, have a better conversion rate and shots on target conversion rate. We also concede fewer shots, but concede more on target, concede fewer goals and the opposition has a worse conversion rate in both regards compared to Liverpool.
So why are we 6 points behind? Obvious really, we conceded 7 of those goals against Norwich, Wolves and Spurs and in those games our conversion rate was low, hence we dropped points. Liverpool have conceded more goals but only conceded more than once 3 times, twice in the CL (Napoli & Salzburg) and against Chelsea in the Super Cup, they don't do it in the league. This allows them to have lower conversion rates because they concede fewer league goals.
So in summary, we create more opportunities but Liverpool hit the target more often, however we are more clinical.
The opposition creates more chances against Liverpool, but we give away better opportunities because we concede more shots on target and a much higher proportion of our shots conceded are shots on target (49.5% vs 30.7% for Liverpool). So the difficulty for teams against Liverpool is hitting the target, when they do they actually take more chances than they do against us, which also tells us that Ederson is a much better keeper than certainly Adrian and in all honesty Alisson as well, but we knew that anyway.
So the above is interesting to see that actually the opposition aren't hopelessly different, but that broad overviews don't pick up the nuances of individual games (goalkeeping howlers, ref decisions) but most importantly, the key games where we fluff our lines and the opposition doesn't, costing us 8 points.
