Should Liverpool be worried by their dwindling duel success rate?

The Reds have 'won the duels' in just one of their last 10 games in all competitions, fuelling suggestions that fatigue has set in.

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Liverpool fans convinced that a late-season downturn in results owes everything to fatigue will not be surprised to learn about their recent record in duels.

For the uninitiated, duels are defined as one-on-one battles in which players are either competing for a loose ball on the ground or in the air, attempting to dribble past their opponent, or attempting to stop their opponent passing them.

Each of these incidents is assigned a winner and a loser, with that outcome then attributed to both team and individual in the match statistics.

And, as can be seen below, the Reds have fared remarkably poorly by this measure of late, winning more duels than the opposition in just one of their last 10 outings.