Dirk Kuyt says Liverpool’s current team is better than that of 2008/09

Former Liverpool and Netherlands star, Dirk Kuyt, believes that The Reds' current team is of a higher standard than the squad he was a part of at Anfield in 2008/09. Kuyt, under Rafa Benitez's guidance, played alongside talents such as Xabi Alonso, Steven Gerrard, Fernando Torres and Javier Mascherano that year. Liverpool lost just two...

Four Years of Jürgen Klopp – Part 3: The Klopp Game

As we celebrate the four-year anniversary of Jürgen Klopp’s arrival at Anfield this month, I’ll be reminiscing about some of the crucial games and moments that have stood out over that period. You can read the first two parts of this series here and here Now it’s time for Part 3: Liverpool 4-3 Borussia Dortmund...

Genk vs Liverpool, Three things we expect from the Champions

Although they are the current holders of the Champions League trophy, Liverpool are looking to end a run of defeats away from home in the competition. The Reds succumbed to three away defeats in the league last season and they were subjected to a 2-0 defeat at the hands of Serie A giants Napoli...

Trent Alexander-Arnold believes Liverpool are stronger for their setbacks

Liverpool right-back Trent Alexander-Arnold believes setbacks in recent years have made the squad stronger as a unit. The Reds suffered a Champions League final defeat against Real Madrid in Kyiv in 2017, before bouncing back to win the club's sixth European Cup trophy in Madrid in June. As well as winning last season's Champions League, Liverpool...

A game-by-game mentality: How Liverpool can win the Premier League

To lay everything out on the table from the start, here, any talk of Liverpool having won the Premier League title already this season is absolutely absurd. You can certainly lose the title in the first eight games. But with only 21% of the season completed, there’s no chance you can win it in...

Jamie Carragher holds Liverpool forward in extremely high regard

Liverpool's former number 23, Jamie Carragher, says that The Reds' Senegalese forward Sadio Mané is his favourite player currently at the club. Carragher, speaking to Liverpoolfc.com, claimed that Liverpool's number 10 is up there with Manchester City's Raheem Sterling as the best left-sided attacker in world football. "Even after the first couple of games, I said...

Four wonderful years of Jurgen Klopp at Liverpool

People often say that you remember exactly where you were when huge moments in history occurred. I'll never forget hearing about the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center on the bus home from school, for example, or seeing a kids TV show interrupted in order to inform me of the death of Princess Diana. I...

Where does van Dijk rank amongst the best Reds Centre Backs?

It was 1st January 2018 when Liverpool signed a lustrous stopper, one Virgil van Dijk. £75m was the fee, a world record transfer amount for a centre back at the time, and there were plenty of critics that scoffed vociferously at the price tag lauded over the Dutchman’s head. Fast-forward almost two years, and, following a...

How Trent Alexander-Arnold Has Become Klopp’s de Bruyne

No, for the love of God, Trent Alexander-Arnold is not as good as Kevin de Bruyne. Just examine the radar below, courtesy of understat.com, for evidence of that. Kevin de Bruyne, under Pep Guardiola, is a phenomenon, involved in everything Manchester City do on a football pitch. Without him, as evidenced by the performance...

Four Years of Jurgen Klopp Part II – The Future is Bobby

As we celebrate the four year anniversary of Jürgen Klopp’s arrival at Anfield this week, I’ll be reminiscing about some of the crucial games and moments that have stood out over that period. You can read the first part of this series here. Now it’s time for Part II: Manchester City 1-4 Liverpool 21 November...

100% Liverpool Writing Their Own Script

Liverpool notched their 8th straight Premier League win of the season, their 17th in a row total and moved eight points clear at the top of the league with a late penalty against Leicester. There was a sense of palatable relief as James Milner stepped up in the 95th minute to down Leicester and give...

Why can’t you play like that every week, Dejan?

I'm sure I wasn't the only one who grimaced, groaned, groaned and flailed when I heard that Dejan Lovren was starting on Saturday. Not only because... Well, he's Dejan Lovren, but because he was to come up against a striker in Jamie Vardy that has a brilliant goal scoring record against the Reds and has...

Liverpool’s Full Backs Add New Attacking Dimension

A prominent and recurring feature of Pep Guardiola's trophy-laden spell as manager of Manchester City has been the Catalan's utilisation of his expensively assembled full backs as ostensible centre midfielders. The positioning of his full backs has provided his City side with numerous advantages. Firstly, it allows for effective triangle shapes to be created between the...

Player Ratings as Liverpool Topple Leicester City

The Reds keep marching on after a dramatic 95th-minute penalty from James Milner sealed all 3 points. Liverpool should have had the game wrapped up much earlier but wasted a number of opportunities, allowing Leicester the chance to level late on. However, it was a thoroughly deserved win which will undoubtedly boil the piss of...

Eredivisie wonderkid is the perfect forward for Liverpool

Ajax lit up the Champions League last season, dismantling the very best before crashing out dramatically in the semi-final. They managed to keep hold of the majority of that team, only losing Frenkie de Jong and Matthijs de Ligt when many thought they'd be gutted. Yet despite this, they're already old news with all eyes...

How Klopp can maintain Reds winning run

7 league wins on the bounce, 16 league wins out of 16 in the league spanning this season and last. In many respects, it feels scarcely believable that Liverpool are this good after so many years of disappointment. But Jurgen Klopp's current crop are the finest Liverpool side seen in any Premier league era;...

Predicting Liverpool’s starting eleven to play Leicester this weekend

Liverpool take on Leicester City at Anfield today in the Premier League. Here's the starting lineup we think Jurgen Klopp will select for this huge fixture. Apart from Alisson Becker - who it seems this game may just have arrived too soon for - The Reds should be at full strength. Adrian will continue in goals...

Salzburg rollercoaster provides timely reality check for Liverpool

I must admit, I feel a bit daft. It was only recently that I wrote something, somewhere about how Liverpool's players are the epitome of the mentality monsters that Jürgen Klopp christened them as only last season. While that's still not so far from the truth, the Reds certainly have reason to believe that they are...

Four Years Of Jürgen Klopp – Part 1 Belief & Unity

Next week will mark four years since Jürgen Klopp took charge at Anfield and began the process of transforming the Reds from Premier League also-rans into one of the dominant teams in world football. Over the next few days I’ll be reminiscing about some of the crucial games and moments that have stood out along...

Liverpool v Leicester City Preview – Klopp will be wary of threat posed by Rodgers’ Foxes

The details Venue – Anfield, Liverpool Referee – Chris Kavanagh Date & Time – Saturday, October 5th @ 15:00 Current Odds – Liverpool 9/20, Draw 7/2, Leicester City 11/2 _____________________________________________________________ Form Liverpool Form Seven wins from seven to start off the Premier League season. This Liverpool team really is going to take us on a journey again. If it's anything like last season...

Liverpool 4-3 Salzburg: Key stats as Reds make amends following collapse

Liverpool's habit of fashioning European theatre very nearly proved their undoing as a first-half performance full of swagger gave way to a nightmarish spell after the break. In little over 20 match minutes, the Reds surrendered a three-goal advantage they had so sublimely built, leaving stunned supporters fearing the worst. But soon the cogs of the...

Liverpool 4-3 RB Salzburg – Player Ratings as Austrians give Reds a huge scare

The European Champions have their title defence up and running again. Liverpool bounced back from their 2-0 defeat in Naples, with a 4-3 win over RB Salzburg at Anfield in what was a crazy game typified by an energetic Salzburg side who attacked with verve, and an uncharacteristically sloppy Liverpool side. Goals from Sadio Mane,...

Liverpool Survive Scare in Anfield Goal Bonanza

A Mohamed Salah brace and goals from Sadio Mané and Andrew Robertson saw Liverpool clinch a 4-3 win over Red Bull Salzburg in an Anfield goal bonanza. The defending champions raced into a three goal lead, thanks to goals from Mane, Robertson and Salah. But the Jesse Marsch coached Austrian side managed to claw the...

Predicting Liverpool’s lineup for the RB Salzburg game tonight

Liverpool face RB Salzburg at Anfield tonight in the Champions League. Here's a look at the starting eleven we think Jurgen Klopp might go with for this tough encounter against the Austrian Bundesliga champions. The Reds got off to a very poor start in Europe this season, losing 2-0 away to Napoli a fortnight ago....

Liverpool’s Great Weakness Has Become their Strength

It’s an interesting thing, the human brain. Driven by logic and reason, capable of assessing situations and providing a thoughtful and rational response. Yet subject it to serious trauma, and suddenly that rationality gets chipped away, slowly but surely, until the horrors of what once was, murk what actually is. Case in point. Sheffield United...

Liverpool should return to sign La Liga starlet

In football, rejection often closes that particular chapter. Clubs won't continue to their pursuit if a player has made it clear they aren't keen on the move. Sometimes it's to do with pride. Other times it's because the world of football moves fast and teams can't wait around on the off chance a mind...

Who Could Replace Jurgen Klopp When He Leaves Anfield?

If the reports are to believed, then Jurgen Klopp could be tempted to leave Anfield to take over the managerial role with the German national side. All Reds fans will be hoping that these rumours will prove to be false but only time will tell. Manchester City have already taken steps to fill the...

Who Could Replace Jurgen Klopp When He Leaves Anfield?

If the reports are to believed, then Jurgen Klopp could be tempted to leave Anfield to take over the managerial role with the German national side. All Reds fans will be hoping that these rumours will prove to be false but only time will tell. Manchester City have already taken steps to fill the...

Jurgen Klopp had to make some changes to break Sheffield United down

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp discussed the tactical tweaks he and his backroom team implemented during the second half of Liverpool's win at Bramall Lane. A fortunate Gini Wijnaldum strike won the three points for The Reds after Sheffield United goalkeeper Dean Henderson let the ball slip through his hands and over the line. Up until then,...

Erling Haaland – Red Bull Salzburg’s MVP

Not since The Big Show emerged from underneath the ring at St. Valentine's Day Massacre pay-per-view show in 1999 has a big man had such an impact on his debut. Erling Braut Haaland made his Champions League debut for Red Bull Salzburg against Genk with all eyes on him after bossing the Austrian Bundesliga.  He...