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Roberto Firmino has been praised for his important role in Liverpool’s attacking play on the most recent episode of the Blood Red channel’s Analysing Anfield podcast.

The Reds' No.9 has never been regarded as a prolific goalscorer, but supporters will be quick to point out how his industry and link up play is vital in allowing fellow attackers Sadio Mane and Mohamed Salah to flourish.

Recently though Firmino has found himself in fine goal scoring form, with the Brazilian having netted four times in his previous seven games.

This prompted Analysing Anfield to take a closer look at the frontman's stats so far this season.

Host Josh Williams said: “Early in the season he was taking over four shots a game, in the mid point of the season he regressed to what we considered as normal, but he’s shot up a little bit again.

“Currently he’s shooting over three times per 90 minutes, generally, players who shoot that much tend to score a good number of goals.

“They’re the types of players you want and Firmino is doing that now when previously he wasn’t.

“Each season in the Premier League he averages about 2.2-2.4 shots per 90. He’s over three at the minute, so it’ll be interesting to see if that continues up until the end of the season."

Adding: “His role isn’t entirely focused around ending the move, it’s about the pass before the end of the move, that’s why he gets the brunt of the praise from Klopp.

“He gets more praise than Mane and Salah even though he puts the ball in the net far less.”

And Williams felt that it’s Firmino’s determination and professionalism off the pitch that helps make him such an attribute to the team when on it.

“A couple of weeks ago, he went through a few games without scoring to the extent where he had a word with Klopp behind the scenes and expressed his concerns and Klopp encouraged him to keep going and not worry,” explained Williams.

“The next match, he scored, and he celebrated by running over to Klopp.

“He’s renowned for never speaking in the mixed-zone after a match, he doesn’t give interviews ever, I couldn’t tell you what his voice sounds like.

“There’s a quote from James Milner in FourFourTwo magazine where he’s naming what his best XI would be and Firmino was in it, and description for him was ‘the lowest maintenance player I’ve ever played with.’

“He doesn’t need anything, and he will just go out on the pitch every week and work as hard as he can and that’s a massive compliment.”