Liverpool grind past Wolves in tense Premier League night at Anfield
Liverpool’s 2-1 win over Wolves at Anfield should have felt routine. Instead, it became another emotionally draining Premier League evening, perfectly captured by the raw and honest reaction on the The Gags Tandon Show from Gags Tandon and Grizz Khan.
Straight from the opening minutes, the tone was set. “I’m human as well. I have emotions of anxiety, stress, frustration, anger,” Grizz admitted. “This is what this club does to us.” It was a line that summed up not only the Wolves game but Liverpool’s wider Premier League situation, a team winning games while fraying the nerves of everyone watching.
Liverpool scored twice quickly, took control early, and then retreated into familiar territory. As Gags put it bluntly, “It’s a sign of where we are as a football club that we’re holding on against a team that’s only got two points in the Premier League.” The frustration was not about the result, but how it was achieved.
Questions around performance and identity
Despite the win, neither contributor was convinced by the performance. Gags asked the question many Liverpool fans were thinking. “Did we actually play well? Two moments were good, yeah, for the goals, but otherwise was it fantastic football?”
Grizz agreed, describing the approach as survival rather than progress. “I don’t think now’s the time to be able to show an identity,” he said, before adding, “I think it’s a time for just getting over the line.” Yet that acceptance came with concern, especially given how Liverpool reacted once Wolves applied pressure late on.
“There’s a lot of wins,” Gags noted, “but at the sign of a conceded goal, we collapse as a team. We lose all confidence.” He followed that with one of the most telling lines of the show. “That doesn’t sound like a team that’s unbeaten in seven to me.”
For Grizz, the issue was physical as much as tactical. “Our forwards look shattered. We can’t last more than 70 minutes,” he said. “Our defenders and our forwards are on the floor.” In the relentless Premier League schedule, that fatigue feels like a warning sign rather than an excuse.
Set pieces and structural flaws
No topic generated more anger than Liverpool’s defending at set pieces. Grizz was unequivocal. “We have to reinforce the squad. There is no other way,” he said, before turning his attention to the coaching setup. “The first thing he needs to do before anything is get rid of that set piece coach.”
Gags backed that up with numbers and context. “How can you continue to be bottom of the league or at least near the bottom with a minus nine deficit in set pieces?” he asked. “That’s pathetic really.” For both, this was not bad luck but a systemic failure that keeps costing Liverpool control of games.
The Wolves match followed the same script. Liverpool retreated deeper and deeper. “We kept retreating, retreating and retreating,” Grizz said, “and that just invited pressure on.”
Bright sparks amid the anxiety
Amid the tension, there were genuine positives. Both contributors praised individual performances, particularly in wide areas. “Jeremy Frimpong started at right back. Fantastic,” Gags said. “Don’t think he made a mistake today.” His pace stood out, especially when Liverpool needed recovery runs late on.
Grizz highlighted the goal itself. “The finish from Grav is very, very good,” he said. “That was such a composed side foot finish.”
The biggest praise, though, was reserved for Florian Wirtz. “Florian Wirtz was a joy, a joy to watch,” Grizz said. Gags went even further, calling one moment “Kenny Dalglish-esque” before adding, “He literally was the game changer for us.”
There was also appreciation for defensive grit. Grizz described Conor Bradley’s intervention as decisive. “That last ditch tackle is worth the equal of Grav’s goal and Wirtz’s goal.”
Premier League table does not tell the full story
Liverpool sit fourth in the Premier League, something Grizz almost laughed at in disbelief. “We’re so downbeat after a team that’s won five games out of seven sitting fourth,” he said. Yet the concern was not the table, but the manner of the wins. “Holding on last minute. Holding on every time.”
That anxiety feeds into the upcoming run. Leeds, Fulham and Arsenal loom large. “Anyone who outruns us, we struggle,” Grizz warned. “That’s exactly our nemesis at the moment.”
Still, neither contributor gave up hope. “It’s not all doom and gloom,” Grizz said. “We’re in the top four. We’re unbeaten in seven.” Gags echoed the sentiment, albeit cautiously. “The real problem is the squad. We don’t have enough players.”
Liverpool beat Wolves, collected three Premier League points, and moved on. But as this episode of The Gags Tandon Show made clear, the bigger questions remain unanswered. For now, Liverpool survive. Whether they can thrive again is the challenge ahead.
