Liverpool manager Roy Hodgson has had six seasons in English football in the last 15 years. In all of that time though he has a quite incredible statistic of racking up only 13 Away wins. Here are the stats shown below:
1997/98 – Blackburn Rovers – 5 Away wins – Finished 6th
1998/99 – Blackburn Rovers – 0 Away wins – Sacked when 20th
2007/08 – Fulham – 3 Away wins – Finished 17th
2008/09 – Fulham – 3 Away wins – Finished 7th
2009/10 – Fulham – 1 Away win – Finished 12th
2010/11 – Liverpool – 1 Away win – Currently 9th
To be fair, three of those seasons (1998/99, 2007/08 and 2010/11), have seen Roy not able to play all the away fixtures as he was sacked by Blackburn Rovers in December 1998, he was hired by Fulham in December 2007 and he has only had six away fixtures in the league this season with Liverpool. It still means though that in 82 Away fixtures in the Barclays Premier League, Roy has only been on the winning side on 13 occasions. A 16% win ratio which is not sustainable for a club like Liverpool which have Champions League aspirations.
The win over Bolton Wanderers a couple of weeks ago was Roy’s first away victory in the league since the opening day of the 2009/10 season when his Fulham side beat Portsmouth. Of course Roy had more success in the Europa League beating sides such as FC Basel and Wolfsburg away from home, but from a Liverpool point of view, it is slightly concerning that his away league record is so poor.
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May have been “tactical influence”, may have been players taking their tired feet of the pedal thinking they could coast it against Wigan.
Hodgson said they could have been tired (if he was being charitable) or they were being lazy (if he was being uncharitable). Giving the ball away suggest either or both and I doubt it was “tactical influence” which told them to give the ball away, was it?
btw, his away record means nothing, he’s not managed a Big 4 side so you’re comparing apples and oranges.
While our team can’t pass the ball to each other consistently, we’re a counter-attacking side with the few players who can.
I’m staggered by this statistic but I am glad I’ve read it as it says so much about Hodgson and his lack of vision and confidence as a manager of LFC. 16% – wow! Please send a copy of this to Mr John Henry, who I am sure will find it very interesting. Hodgson was a political appointment. Seen as a nice bloke, a yes-man who won’t rock the boat while the Chairman and CEO went in search of a new owner. Now that job has been done, it’s time to get a ‘real’ manager, someone with true tactical nous, vision and a proven track record of success in the big leagues and with big teams. LFC deserves a world class gaffer, not someone who has plied his trade in 2nd and 3rd tier leagues. 16%, I am truly gob-smacked. What a damning stat.
If the players were tired after sunday why didn’t he play his Europa League team, they should have been enough to beat Wigan? He ain’t got a clue John Henry should sack him now.
Can just imagine what Shanks would have replied to the suggestion that the team were tired after a midweek game.
“Eeeeee, look son, if you work all week down the coal mine then you’re entitled to be tired at the weekend. These kids are earning a fortune for playing football for 90 minutes wi a bit of training thrown in. If they’re tired then they’re unfit and should work harder in training”.
Quality!
No wonder pepe has given a exit hint. if we continue like this how can we ask players like pepe and nando to holdon to our club. They clearly see this manager doesnt have any ambitions. If we didnt fire him rightnow we can loose our top players. Its very sad but we have to be prepared for that. And the fact is we ca not blame players.
What amazes me is the lack of criticism Roy is getting from the media mugs who were so ready to jump on Rafa for rotating his teams and for having different tactics for different opponents.
Can you imagine the headlines of we had the record Roy has under Rafa?
We need this final reminder of Hicks and Gillet to be purged so that we can move on. Every time I see Roy I remember the Yanks and the nightmare.
Tiredness may be a factor leading to our lacklustre performance at Wigan, after all the players were exhausted after the Chelsea game but that can’t be an excuse. If Roy knew beforehand that the first XI were suffering from tiredness then why didn’t he change the team and use the likes of Jovanovic, Pacheco and Poulsen? So after the match, he says the team was tired when he knew perfectly clear that was the case before the match. He took a gamble and played all the same players and when they couldn’t get the job done, Roy gives the excuse. It’s clear, Roy doesn’t have a clue but he had it all planned out that if he couldn’t win at Wigan then he would give the excuse that the team was tired.
NESV if you monitor these boards, please get rid of this useless manager and two of the pathetic players he bought. we have the players now to win trophies and we need three more to win the often but we cant win with this mqanager.
once again the disaster hole has been opened, now he is castigating his players (johnson in public) icant remember when he has opened his mouth and not embarrassed us.
ROY PLEASE BE A NICE GUY SOMEWHERE ELSE !
AND TAKE THE USELESS KANCHESKY AND POULSON WITH YOU. YOU8 HAVE MANAGED TO TAKE THE RESPECT OTHER TEAMS HAVE FOR US AWAY.