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Liverpool’sSet-piece coach Aaron Briggs has left the club as he paid the price for the team’s disastrous record in defending free-kicks and corners.
this Premier League The Championship side have conceded more goals from set pieces than any other team in the division – 12, including two in the last two games.
Liverpool managed just three goals from dead ball situations, while the leading manager Arne Slaughter Their “negative set-piece balance” is often bemoaned.
he said After the win over Wolves at the weekend: “Unfortunately we were probably the only team that barely scored from set pieces and to make matters worse, we kept conceding goals.”
Liverpool have conceded seven corners this season and Saturday’s game Virgil van Dijk Describing the second phase as their “killer”.
Slaughter and his assistants Sipke Hulshov and Giovanni van Bronckhorst will take over set-piece duties as Liverpool try to step up their attack, starting with a home game against Leeds United on New Year’s Day, which saw Leeds equalize from a corner kick in the dying minutes of a 3-3 draw at Elland Road.
Briggs, who has previously worked at Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester City, joined Liverpool as a personal development coach in 2024 and was part of the backroom staff when Liverpool won the Premier League title last season.
“He leaves with the appreciation and best wishes of everyone at the club,” Liverpool said in a statement.