He’s answered your question. Average positions show them alongside each other. Passes show Milner all over the pitch, concentrated around the average position. We all watch every game. I don’t know if the question “did you watch the game?” is otherwise code for “I don’t agree so I’m going to deal with my insecurity by making what feels like a crafty, subtle dig... is it?
Mostly outside transfer threads people have watched the game, and if not they usually say so.
What's the old saying...something that assumptions tend to make an ass out of you and I is the way I think it goes. So if we're going to disagree let's make sure we're coming from the same standpoint here. I believe PoP was stating that Keita should have done better in the Wolves FA Cup match where he was in a midfield two with Milner. I also think that while PoP adds a lot to the forums with his coaching background he can also latch onto some rather petty things to argue about to the point I wonder at times whether he is even arguing in good faith. So I truly want to know if he watched the game as for someone with a coaching background like him to think any LFC player was setup for success in that game seems crazy to me the layman without that background. So did PoP watch the game and is he arguing in good faith here?
Stats, like anything else, is just a tool. He's posting the average position and pass map to argue what exactly? That Naby wasn't 3v1 in midfield? That LFC as a team didn't completely abandon playing through the midfield as they were scared to death to turn the ball over in that area and that Wolves didn't have almost as many final third passes as LFC despite having way less of the ball? Milner's heat map is almost entirely in our own half and I believe his most passed to person was Fabinho, yet he was battling it out in midfield?
They were playing against Moutinho, Neves and Dendoncker which is probably the best midfield outside of a top 6 team. At Wolves home ground with ineffective strikers, a kid winger and another winger who Klopp had to switch formations just to play him without imbalancing the side. Does PoP believe in these circumstances Naby should have done better? Why? Instead he's arguing that Milner isn't a crutch for Naby by posting maps but not explaining anything about why he believes that?
Even though we lost on the score sheet I think we basically played Wolves to a draw and both Milner (error aside) and Naby did as well as they possibly could do in the cirumstances they were in. I don't know who would have done better or how you would figure that would be the case but I certainly can't understand using it as a reason why someone did poorly.