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Scoring records:
If you look at the "For goals" column - Rodgers' Liverpool has the third best goals-to-games record (2.1 goals per game) after McKenna (3.2) and Barclay (2.4). McKenna's reign was just for 36 games though.
Defensive records:
Look at Paisley's defensive record - 406 goals in 535 games, that's 0.76 goals conceded per game. But even that lost out to Joe Fagan, whose teams conceded just 0.74 goals per game, albeit in a quarter of the number of games Paisley led. Those rates would translate to about 28 to 29 goals conceded in the current 38-game league season.
Doing it on both ends:
Both Paisley's and Fagan's teams did it on both ends though - Paisley's teams scored 2.35 goals per goal conceded, while Fagan's record was 2.32. Dalglish was next at 2.21, and that's including his doomed 2nd spell. Awesome stuff. Nobody else cracked 2.00 (I excluded McKenna's short 36-game spell - he actually hit 3.14 with his teams).
Benitez's 1.93 was the closest after that. Rodgers' record is at 1.74; with 214 scored and 123 conceded in 100 games - a good record but still closer to Evan's and Houllier's records than the ones above him. Doesn't take stats to show where his teams' weaknesses are at, but interesting to see how he stacked up against the rest though.
Trophy counts:
Of course, in terms of trophy count, Rodgers is way behind right now with a bare shelf. If he can figure out how to improve the defence without compromising the stellar goal-scoring record, I'm sure he'll start making some headway in the trophy charts.
Scoring records:
If you look at the "For goals" column - Rodgers' Liverpool has the third best goals-to-games record (2.1 goals per game) after McKenna (3.2) and Barclay (2.4). McKenna's reign was just for 36 games though.
Defensive records:
Look at Paisley's defensive record - 406 goals in 535 games, that's 0.76 goals conceded per game. But even that lost out to Joe Fagan, whose teams conceded just 0.74 goals per game, albeit in a quarter of the number of games Paisley led. Those rates would translate to about 28 to 29 goals conceded in the current 38-game league season.
Doing it on both ends:
Both Paisley's and Fagan's teams did it on both ends though - Paisley's teams scored 2.35 goals per goal conceded, while Fagan's record was 2.32. Dalglish was next at 2.21, and that's including his doomed 2nd spell. Awesome stuff. Nobody else cracked 2.00 (I excluded McKenna's short 36-game spell - he actually hit 3.14 with his teams).
Benitez's 1.93 was the closest after that. Rodgers' record is at 1.74; with 214 scored and 123 conceded in 100 games - a good record but still closer to Evan's and Houllier's records than the ones above him. Doesn't take stats to show where his teams' weaknesses are at, but interesting to see how he stacked up against the rest though.
Trophy counts:
Of course, in terms of trophy count, Rodgers is way behind right now with a bare shelf. If he can figure out how to improve the defence without compromising the stellar goal-scoring record, I'm sure he'll start making some headway in the trophy charts.
