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David Lynch’s 5 Key Takeaways from Liverpool’s 1-0 Win Over Real Madrid

David Lynch Was At Anfield To See The Reds Dominate Real Madrid Liverpool’s 1-0 win over Real Madrid in the Champions League was not …

Liverpool’s growing identity clear in hard-fought win over Real Madrid

Liverpool 1 - 0 Real Madrid – Champions League Postmortem By Steven Smith With Liverpool looking to build upon their first league win in …

Midfield Brilliance from Szoboszlai Guides Liverpool Past Madrid

Liverpool 1 - 0 Real Madrid – Champions League Man of the Match Dominik Szoboszlai Liverpool FC In a contest that carried all the …

Mac Allister header and Szoboszlai masterclass lift Liverpool past Madrid

Liverpool 1 - 0 Real Madrid - CL Player Ratings The Champions League’s return after an important victory over Aston Villa saw Xabi Alonso …

Mac Allister header seals Liverpool’s victory over Real Madrid in Europe

Liverpool show European authority at Anfield Under the lights at Anfield, Liverpool rediscovered their most forceful European stride, sweeping aside Real Madrid with an …

Latest Podcasts

Post Match Raw: MAC IS BACK!

On the latest RAW Trev Downey, Dave Hendrick and Hari Sethi reflect on Liverpool’s emphatic performance and deceptively narrow 1-0 win over Real Madrid in the CL. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Arne Slot Post-Match Press Conference | Liverpool 1-0 Real Madrid

Arne Slot speaks to the media following Liverpool's 1-0 win over Real Madrid in the Champions League. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Trent Mural: Two Footed Extra Time

Dave looks at the news & gossip, as Trent Alexander-Arnold's has been defaced ahead of the game. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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EFL Catchup, FA Cup Advancing & Champions League Tonight: The Two Footed Podcast

Dave looks at the EFL action from the weekend and the midweek, before looking at the FA Cup ties from the weekend. He then looks at the Champions League action tonight. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Daily Red Podcast: Madrid Tonight

Dave Hendrick is here to cover all things LFC. He looks at the games against Real Madrid tonight. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Liverpool FC Transfers

Liverpool star breaks silence on potential new contract

Gravenberch Calm Over Liverpool New Contract Talk Nothing fuels the Liverpool rumour mill quite like whispers of a contract negotiation, yet Ryan Gravenberch remains …

Liverpool set to complete January move for defender

Liverpool weighing up next move for Calvin Ramsay after return to first-team action Liverpool are considering their next steps for right-back Calvin Ramsay, following …

Report: Liverpool eyeing move to sign 18-year-old wonderkid

Liverpool Eye River Plate Starlet Ian Subiabre as Future Prospect Liverpool are reportedly among several European clubs monitoring River Plate’s young forward Ian Subiabre, …

Suggestions that Liverpool have huge £40m regret

Liverpool maintain faith in Milos Kerkez despite early struggles Liverpool have no plans to move for a new left-back in the upcoming transfer windows, …

Fabrizio Romano confirms blow in Liverpool's pursuit of Marc Guehi

Guehi’s Future Takes Twist as Bayern Munich Join Chase Amid Romano Update Liverpool’s long-standing pursuit of Crystal Palace defender Marc Guehi has taken a …

Opinion

David Lynch’s 5 Key Takeaways from Liverpool’s 1-0 Win Over Real Madrid

David Lynch Was At Anfield To See The Reds Dominate Real Madrid Liverpool’s 1-0 win over Real Madrid in the Champions League was not …

Liverpool’s growing identity clear in hard-fought win over Real Madrid

Liverpool 1 - 0 Real Madrid – Champions League Postmortem By Steven Smith With Liverpool looking to build upon their first league win in …

Midfield Brilliance from Szoboszlai Guides Liverpool Past Madrid

Liverpool 1 - 0 Real Madrid – Champions League Man of the Match Dominik Szoboszlai Liverpool FC In a contest that carried all the …

Mac Allister header and Szoboszlai masterclass lift Liverpool past Madrid

Liverpool 1 - 0 Real Madrid - CL Player Ratings The Champions League’s return after an important victory over Aston Villa saw Xabi Alonso …

Former Premier League manager praises 'underrated' Liverpool star

Mac Allister Earns Praise from Jesse Marsch as Liverpool’s Unsung Engine Liverpool midfielder Alexis Mac Allister has been hailed by Jesse Marsch as one …

Betting Tips

If Florian Wirtz Needs Time to Adjust to the Premier League, How Come Szoboszlai Didn’t?

Florian Wirtz’s move to England was met with enormous excitement. The young German star arrived with a reputation as one of Europe’s most gifted …

Mastering Timeless Board Games for Adults

Beyond Monopoly: Classic Board Games Every Adult Needs to Master There’s something timeless about gathering around a table, shuffling a deck, rolling dice, and …

Liverpool title defense odds analysis after dominant season start

Liverpool are back in the conversation, and not by accident. As defending champions, they have opened this Premier League season with real intent. Last …

How to Keep Fortune on Your Side When the Reds Play

For Liverpool fans, there is no greater excitement in life than the moments before kick-off with Anfield packed full of fans belting out “You’ll …

How will Liverpool's summer transfer campaign impact the season?

The 2025/26 season brought ambitious targets for Liverpool Football Club but their summer transfer activities produced dual effects on the team. The English Premier …

Lallana: A Force Awoken

Since Klopp’s arrival, it's been a tale of ups and downs at Liverpool. Unconvincing performances in the Europa League were forgotten as qualification into the knock-out stages was secured and impressive thrashings of Southampton, Manchester City and Chelsea showcased Liverpool’s potential quality. However, disappointing results against Watford, Crystal Palace, Newcastle and West Ham in...

Benteke is Worse Than Feared – A Terrible Targetman Too

Popular opinion isn’t exactly on Christian Benteke’s side; an ESPN article gave him a 2/10 against West Ham, which doesn’t really require much context. A 2/10 is a polite version of 1/10. It means you have failed at every task you would be typically asked to do in your position, but the qualifier is...

Observations from Liverpool’s win at Stoke

In the grand scheme of things, it's half-time in the Capital One Cup semi-final. A depleted Liverpool side will now take a 1-0 lead to Anfield for the second leg in a fortnight, after a battling display against December's form side, Stoke City. On the whole it wasn't a pretty performance. The Reds started off...

Liverpool Linked With ‘The Serbian Robben’ Filip Kostic

Last week the Serbian website Mozzart Sport linked Liverpool with a move for VFB Stuggart winger Filip Kostic. The 23 year old is only in his second season playing for the Bundesliga side but has been steadily improving ever since joining them. Signed from FC Groningen, who ply their trade in the Eredivisie, the winger cost...

January is Boom or Bust for Liverpool

Just one month ago I wrote on this parish about my excitement for the festive period. It wasn't just the thought of excessive drinking and mounds of mince pies that made me giddy, but the possibility of Liverpool building some momentum. The Reds had just come off the back of three successive victories and I...

Klopp Left with Three Options as Benteke Pressure Mounts

Another week, another mixed set of results, another chorus of grumbling from Liverpool fans over their £32.5m striker. Saturday’s 2-0 loss at Upton Park provided the latest round of evidence in the trial of Benteke, a cloudy affair in which almost everyone employed by the club, from scouts, to former managers, to current owners,...

Liverpool’s Forgotten Man: Tiago Ilori

Liverpool fans got another piece of good news at the start of this current transfer window when it was reported that Aston Villa are thinking about terminating the loan deal they have in place for Liverpool's forgotten man Tiago Ilori. For me personally this is great news as when his loan to Aston Villa...

Illustrating Liverpool’s Pressing Vs West Ham United

We've been collecting Pressing Stats since 2013 on Anfield Index and after two record breaking performances from Liverpool I expected a heavy drop in this loss at Upton Park, I was wrong! Liverpool's pressing effort was actually very close to the game against Leicester City. We analyse the pressing stats and on-ball stats on our podcast...

Liverpool’s Biggest Hurdle in 2016 is Impatience

It’s easy to look at the United fans with their radically pre-emptive Mourinho scarves, and their Sharpie covered kitchen-towl signs, and to forget that Liverpool fans can be pretty stupid too. Jurgen Klopp alluded to one element of the idiocy, or at least childish impatience, in Reds fans, when he said of Liverpool’s inconsistent...

Liverpool FC’s Daytrippers and Anfield’s Atmosphere

They say that the atmosphere is a thing of the past these days at Anfield. That the famous twelfth man is no more. That fans in the terraces can no longer be bothered to sing or cheer the team on when their backs are against the wall. That Anfield is a silent stadium and...

What we learnt in Liverpool’s futile performance at West Ham

It is not how we expected to start the new year. A frustrating Liverpool performance saw West Ham finish as 2-0 victors to complete a Premier League double this season. With the early kick-off, the Reds had the chance to move up to fifth but if results go against us we could be as...

West Ham United 2 Liverpool 0: Player Ratings

Liverpool had a torrid start to 2016 as they produced a performance similar to the one against Watford. The Reds were second best in everything; be it passing, tackling, desire or invention. The level of desperation was quite clearly there to be seen as Dejan Lovren was seen taking free kicks. The lack of...

Running forward and why it seems to be harder than we think

Ask any football fan what they expect from their striker and the first point they will make is that they have to score goals. The best way for strikers to score goals is by making forward runs into the box so that they are closer to the goal when they receive the ball, giving...

Benteke, Goals and Missed Chances

Since his summer move to Liverpool Christian Benteke has been weighed down by the fee The Reds paid Aston Villa. Rightly or wrongly when you sign a striker for £32.5 million you have high expectations. I understand transfer fees don't always represent the quality of a player, the fee is decided by the selling...

Price Cut: Reduced Reds Defeat ASDA-Price-Allardyce

"Playing against a defensive position is just as bad as making love to a tree." - Jorge Valdano A couple of weeks ago I tweeted that, by beating Leicester and Sunderland, Liverpool could finish the year just nine points off first. The response was typical. I was met with groans of, "easier said than done", "this season, you...

Illustrating Liverpool’s Pressing Vs Sunderland

We've been collecting Pressing Stats since 2013 on Anfield Index and Liverpool's performance was a recording breaking one according to the numbers we collect! You can have a listen to the full analysis of the pressing stats on the podcast embedded below. There are also supporting heat map/pressing map combinations below so that you...

Comparing Joel Matip to the Liverpool defence

Schalke player Joel Matip has been linked with a move to Liverpool in the January transfer window in a cut price deal due to his contract coming to an end in June. You'd be forgiven for not being too clued up on Matip, when thinking about Schalke defenders it's usually Benedict Howedes and the now...

Liverpool’s January: Tricky Away Games Kick-Off New Year

With Liverpool finally able to put a fairly disappointing 2015 behind them, we're heading into a new year that's full of promise for Jürgen Klopp's Reds. With a new manager, a new style, and maybe even some new signings (if you believe the rumours), everything's in place for a fantastic start to 2015. Liverpool's January...

Observations from Liverpool’s win against Sunderland

Two consecutive 1-0 victories against Leicester and now Sunderland have seen Liverpool rise up to seventh in the table, level on points with Manchester United. The win on Wednesday night saw similarities to the win on boxing day; an unconvincing 1-0 victory. Benteke bagging the winner but missing a late sitter in both games,...

Marko Grujic and The Significance of Shirt Numbers

Marko Grujic. Up until a couple of weeks ago, the vast majority of Liverpool fans likely wouldn’t have heard of him. Yet now he’s the name on everyone’s lips, as his controversial move to the Reds gets ever closer to being signed, sealed and delivered. I say controversial, not because of the young mans reputation,...

The Klopp Mentality: Making the People Happy

In a football world often described as savage, unrelenting and uncompromising, it’s a pretty good feeling to watch a Jürgen Klopp interview. In such a harsh, embattled landscape where managers all strive to achieve excellence largely through one pre-determined template of how to act in front of the camera and on the touchline, Jürgen...

Time is the Best Remedy for Benteke’s Form

Christian Benteke has been subject to heavy criticism amongst the Liverpool fanbase in recent weeks, with some drawing parallels between his and Andy Carroll's fateful move to Liverpool. Yet in the league, Benteke has made 15 appearances, started on 10 occasions, and scored five, and even chipped in with one assist. In comparison, Luis Suarez...

Liverpool midfield dominance vs Leicester a sign of things to come

Eyes were widened and surprise stated as Liverpool’s lineup for the Leicester City game was confirmed, with Jurgen Klopp abandoning his usual 4-3-2-1 system since joining the Reds and matching up to the Foxes in a tactical sense with a 4-4-2. Pre-game (and, for some unfortunate watchers, in-game) chatter was about how Klopp was affording...

Sinclair and Co – Contracts Costing Liverpool Yet Again

From the moment Jean-Marc Bosman won his case which allowed players to move to clubs in different countries football has been ruled by the players. Players and agents collude with one another looking for that one big payday and it often means their current clubs either lose the player on a free transfer, have to...

Liverpool’s Rebuttal to Leicester’s Pressing/Marking

Taking down the Premier League’s high-flying leaders is no easy feat; Liverpool coming off a winless three game streak never helped the build up to the game either. The talks of the Riyad Mahrez-Jamie Vardy combo ripping through the Reds flooded social media after what a Troy Deeney-Idion Ighalo partnership did in Watford's 3-0 win...

Illustrating Liverpool’s Pressing on Vardy, Mahrez and Kante

Many have stated that Liverpool victory over Leicester City was down to the Foxes having a bad day at the office. I happen to disagree, Liverpool's pressing on the day was very impressive and the illustrations below will help explaining exactly how Liverpool went about their stifling Leicester at Anfield on Boxing Day. The images...

A Look at Lovren & Sakho: Can It Work?

There have been many shouts for Liverpool to make a big dip into the January transfer window and pull out some real quality during Jurgen Klopp’s first attempt to strengthen the team. Several positions have been cited as “needed” in the immediate future, with a right-sided centre-back on the list for quite some time. But...

Liverpool 1 Leicester 0 – What Did We Learn?

Liverpool's three game run without a win was finally halted as Christian Benteke's goal gave the Reds a 1-0 win over the league leaders Leicester City. In truth, the scoreline could have been much more overwhelming in our favour, but our profligacy in front of goal meant that there were a few nails being bitten...

Liverpool FC 1 Leicester City 0 : Player Ratings

A far better performance from Liverpool ensured that they took all three points on a windy day at Anfield, becoming the first team to keep Leicester from scoring and condemning the foxes to only their second defeat this season. Sunderland await the Redmen next as the fixtures come in one after the other. Simon Mignolet...

Memorable Liverpool FC Boxing Day Games

I'm an advocate of changing the Premier League schedule so clubs have a mini winter break. I think it'll benefit the clubs in Europe and it'll benefit the league in the long term as you won't be blitzing the players and having them play in something silly like a game every 3 days...but, at...

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