Dave looks at today's news & gossip as Xabi Alonso announced he's leaving Bayer Leverkusen at the end of the season.
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Rival Recon returns as the Reds face Arsenal this weekend.
Joining Hari is Kaya Kaynak of TifoFootball to discuss the game and Arsenal's season.
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Jan Molby On Adam Wharton's Phenomenal Ability & Arsenal Preview!
Molby On The Spot Live: Trev Downey and Jan Molby reflect on Adam Wharton's potential and whether he could be the perfect midfield signing for Liverpool next season. They also preview what to expect against Arsenal on Sunday, with a final conclusion on how Slot and Liverpool will look to close the season!
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Massive Game In The CL Race: The Two Footed Podcast
Dave is joined by Producer Guy to preview and predict the upcoming weekend of Premier League action, with Newcastle hosting Chelsea in a pivotal game in the race for Champions League.
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Dave Hendrick is joined by Guy Drinkel to discuss Arsenal and the game this weekend. They take a deep dive look at Mikel Arteta's time at Arsenal and whether it's been a success or failure.
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When the fixture list was revealed at the start of the season, December was always going to be a difficult month for Liverpool and the plan was clearly to secure points in the preceding weeks allowing the Reds to maybe drop harder ones at Spurs, Man City and Chelsea around Christmas. As we got...
Following a very happy trip to the nation's capital last weekend and Luis Suarez signing a long term contract, Liverpool will host Cardiff City at Anfield in Saturday's lunch time kick off.
It will be the first time since 19th December 1959 that the two sides have met in the league at Anfield, which happened...
Mamadou Sakho arrived at Liverpool in the summer as a highly rated talent. He had with a decent spell at PSG under his belt (151 Ligue 1 Games) and is now moving back up the pecking order in the French National Team after playing in every age group for U16;. £15 million seems like...
Episode 5: Death BY Football
Date: 18th December, 2013
This week the AnfieldIndex Podcast welcomed special guests @pauldalglish and @BrianDurand56 as regulars @DanKennett, @DaveHendrickTLW, @AnfieldIndex and host @JohnRitchie84 dissect the fabulous 5-0 drubbing of Spurs!
Some analysis was done on Liverpool's brilliant pressing game at the Lane as well as match stats.
We also speak about Stevie G's position...
Steven Gerrard, Jamie Carragher and Graeme Souness all sat in the Sky Sports studio at White Hart Lane with smirks breaking through and praise gushing from their mouths. There were a lot of smiling scousers when the final whistle finally blew to draw the curtain down on what was a devastating show of Anfield...
From the very first day we all got our hands on the season’s fixture list, the run of three consecutive away games in December stood out as season defining right from the off:
Tottenham (Away),
Man City (Away),
Chelsea (Away).
Now that Liverpool are on the eve of venturing into this testing period, December’s away days status as...
This Sunday see’s the Red Men travel down to North London to face Andre Villas-Boas' Tottenham Hotspur. Liverpool have not managed to pick up a single point from White Hart Lane in 5 premier league visits while also losing a league cup tie there during this period. Liverpool’s last win at the Lane came...
Neil Poole ponders Liverpool’s habit of falling asleep away at Tottenham Hotspurs and how it has led to nightmare displays.
I had a bad dream last night.
I was being chased by a 30 foot cockerel down the High Road towards Seven Sisters tube station. It had a booming cockney voice and it was mocking me...
Jon Flanagan has been a regular in the Liverpool side ever since starting at right wing-back in the Premier League game against Arsenal in early November. Since then, Flanagan has been swapped over to the left due to Jose Enrique being ruled out after picking up an injury. The Liverpool-born full back has been...
(Please note that the article revolves around Luis Suarez, Daniel Sturridge and Phillipe Coutinho. Whenever I refer a group of players as ‘the trio’ or ‘the three’ I am referring to those three players. )
No matter which part of the world you’re in or what time of the day it is, an hour prior...
Brendan Rodgers is now coming close to the midway point of his second season as the manager of Liverpool Football Club. It's fair to say that this duration should suffice for most of the club's supporters, if not all, to ascertain what his strengths are and conversely what traits of his that haven't strengthened...
It has been brought to our attention that, during a recent episode of the Anfield Index Podcast, one of our opposition guests made reference to a certain "newspaper" during the preview section for the West Ham game.
The Anfield Index in no way condones any mention of said "newspaper" and we sincerely apologise for the...
Episode 4: The Future is Bright The Future is RED
Date: 11th December, 2013
This week we are joined by special guest @DJSpoony to talk all things Liverpool FC. The team wax lyrical over Luis Suarez, discuss Joe Allen's performances and have all the fall out from Steven Gerrard's lengthy spell on the sidelines.
@AnalyseSport debuts on the show...
Wednesday 4th December 2013 was a great night for Liverpool Football Club and in particular for Luis Suarez. Four wonderful goals from the Uruguayan wizard and a very solid and professional job done by the whole team. Quite rightly, Luis Suarez went home with the Man of the Match award and all the plaudits.
However,...
“I think that he has everything needed to succeed there. He can dribble well and does have great vision. He could be effective playing in the middle. "He can score goals. He likes to go into the area as part of the second wave. I think they have signed a jewel.”
Former Cadiz youth team...
After bursting onto the Premier League scene last season, a year on Raheem Sterling seems to have slipped under the radar a little bit. He's only made three starting appearances so far in the premier league and has come off the bench six times to accumulate a grand total of 370 minutes played. This...
Episode 3: Skrtel Smells Nice
Date: 4th December, 2013
In this episode of the Anfield Index Podcast @DJNoreenKhan replaces the suspended @JohnRitchie84 as guest host for the week. @AnfieldIndex, @DaveHendrickTLW, @BassTunedToRed & @dom_campbell all review the Hull City debacle with stats, analysis and much, much more!
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Disclaimer: The stats used were valid as late as 1st Decemeber 2013 due to this article being written after both the Liverpool and Manchester City games.
Following on from my previous article, in which I researched into and compared the Liverpool and Manchester United strike partnerships to see which one was better, I thought I...
You should judge a team’s credentials after 10-12 league games, they say. Amid the annoying international breaks, spectacular goals, controversial refereeing decisions, Joe Allen's derby miss and the SAS magic, Liverpool's season has stuttered along. There seems to be a lack of continuity, fluidity and momentum. The coming 4 weeks promise to provide exactly...
December is upon us, which can only mean one thing, football, football and more football, December is a crucial time of the year for any football club as the fixtures pile up in the lead up to the January transfer window, it is a key period to assess what areas of a squad need...
With Liverpool making such positive headway during the first third of the Premier League season, there have been grumblings and moans at any supporters who dare to question the team or the tactics. It is true that, with recent seasons proving so desperate and barren, we should enjoy this season as the Reds look...
Next month is by far the most important month of Liverpool's 2013/14 campaign on a whole. December is the month when players get tired from the past few months of football and see themselves pushed to the limit with a rush to get all of our remaining 7 games played and out the way...
Anyone who has watched Liverpool for the past two seasons would agree that Liverpool need a new first choice left back. In fact, if you go back the last 10 years you could put forward an argument that Liverpool’s last top class left back was actually a right back, that player would be Alvaro...
After a breath-taking derby last week, Liverpool travel to Hull this Sunday lunchtime. The last time the two sides met at the KC stadium, the two managers were Iain Dowie and Rafa Benitez and Liverpool's starting XI included the likes of Mascherano, Kyriakos, El Zhar and Aquilani.
The hosts have won just one of their last games...
‘A game we've already won on paper’
This is a platitude that will be on the lips of many Liverpool supporters if next weekend’s trip to Hull comes up in conversation around the water cooler. Even the most pessimistic of fans would have to respond with ‘And why not?’ We've lost only two games in the league...
Episode 2: Could It Be ON?
Date: 26th November, 2013
This episode of the Anfield Index Podcast features a review of the 3-3 classic Merseyside Derby as well as questions from Twitter listeners and a preview of the Hull City game with their supporters! All this plus the usual banter with @AnfieldIndex, @DaveHendrickTLW, @Footy_MarcoL, @DanKennett and host...
Disclaimer: The stats used were valid as late as 22nd November 2013 due to this article being written before this weekend's games.
At the top level of football the lone striker is becoming the regular sight, with strike partnerships looking to be a thing of the past. Managers now identify the importance of controlling the...
Pundits have hailed it as the finest Merseyside derby in years; yet the six goal thriller whilst a joy to watch, will have left both Roberto Martinez and Kop boss Brendan Rodgers disappointed they didn't walk away with all three points.
Coutinho opened the scoring on six minutes with the ball glancing off the head...
According to Wikipedia.org, the messiah complex (also known as the Christ complex or saviour complex) is a state of mind in which an individual holds the belief that they are, or are destined to become, a saviour. Rodgers certainly doesn’t outwardly exhibit this, and conversely, the faithful of Liverpool Football Club aren’t holding him...
On Liverpool blogs across the web many paragraphs have been devoted to discussing the player that Jordan Henderson has blossomed into this season but regardless of how much everyone agrees on his improvement, his best position for the team is still a matter that needs to be discussed. This season he’s played as a...