Liverpool 2-4 Leeds United: Chicago Collapse Exposes Defensive Need for Andoni Iraola
Pre-season is a funny old business. One week you look sharp, the patterns are there, the football flows and everyone starts talking themselves into a bright campaign. The next, the cracks show, the game gets away from you and all the old anxieties...
Nyoni, Iraola and Liverpool’s Two-Halves Lesson in 4-2 Leeds Defeat
Liverpool lost 4-2 to Leeds United, and pre-season defeats always leave a bit of a sour taste. Even so, the bigger picture from this one was plain enough. As David Lynch put it, "I think you'd pretty much call that the archetypal game of two...
Liverpool Predicted XI vs Leeds: Wirtz, Isak and Gravenberch in Focus
Pre-season can be a scruffy business, full of changed teams, heavy legs and half-finished ideas. Even so, there are times when it offers a proper glimpse of what may be coming. Liverpool’s meeting with Leeds at Soldier Field feels like one of those nights.
Andoni...
Alexander Isak Faces Defining Liverpool Season Under Andoni Iraola
Alexander Isak does not need a marketing campaign. He needs minutes, fitness and goals. That is the reality after a first Liverpool season that never got moving under Arne Slot and was then wrecked by injury. Now there is a reset under Andoni Iraola, and few...
Andoni Iraola on Liverpool USA Tour, Young Players and Pre-Season Evolution
Liverpool’s pre-season tour of the United States has done what these trips are supposed to do. It has given the new head coach time, access and clarity. Three weeks out from the start of the 2026-27 campaign, Andoni Iraola sounds like a coach who...
Joe Gomez Injury Puts Liverpool Centre-Back Depth Under Immediate Pressure
Liverpool’s pre-season in the United States has gone well on the surface. Two wins, good rhythm, and one more outing against Leeds United before the squad heads home. Fine. But pre-season records mean very little when the bigger issue is sitting in plain sight, and...
Andoni Iraola’s Liverpool Selections Reveal Early Plans for Lewis Koumas, Kieran Morrison and Ifeanyi Ndukwe
Pre-season is usually full of noise and very little certainty. A couple of friendlies, a lot of changes, plenty of tired legs, and fans trying to work out what matters and what does not. Still, when a new head coach...
Liverpool 1-0 Wrexham: Rio Ngumoha provides decisive spark in New York
Ngumoha breaks Wrexham resistance
Pre-season matches can offer evidence without providing certainty. Liverpool’s narrow 1-0 victory over Wrexham at Yankee Stadium belonged firmly in that category, with Rio Ngumoha supplying the decisive moment during a contest that rarely escaped the measured pace of an exhibition...
Liverpool Predicted XI vs Wrexham: Andoni Iraola Forced Into Youthful Defence
Liverpool head into their next summer outing against Wrexham with a familiar pre-season issue, availability. The win over Sunderland offered some useful signs, but Joe Gomez going off injured inside ten minutes changed the picture quickly.
Right now, the defensive numbers are thin. With Ibrahima...
Liverpool Ownership Talks Could Signal Long Term Shift as FSG Investment Discussions Continue
Fresh details surrounding Liverpool's ownership future have emerged, with Bloomberg reporting that the consortium interested in acquiring a minority stake in the club ultimately hopes to become majority owners over time. While any immediate deal remains centred on a minority investment, the...
