Player Ratings as Liverpool continue the September Slump
Liverpool continued their worrying patch of form with another sub-par display on Tuesday evening. Up against Leicester in the Carabao Cup, The Reds dominated the first forty-five minutes, creating multiple chances but failing to make them count. Such misgivings were punished in the second-half when Liverpool's defensive frailties came back to bite them again.
Here are the ratings from the game.
Danny Ward - 6
Can't be attached blame for either of Leicester's goals. In general, he coped pretty well …
Mignolet Benching An Encouraging Sign
Leading up to the Sunday match against Arsenal rumors started spreading about Simon Mignolet being not only benched, but completely out of the squad in favor of Danny Ward and Loris Karius.
Why is Klopp doing this? That’s so unfair to Simon! The Twitter grievances started to flow, calling out Liverpool’s manager for seemingly reckless behavior.
In his pre-match presser, Klopp confirmed the rumour, but stated, “We spoke about it yesterday. It’s just that I want him to have a …
Down But Not Out: Liverpool defeated in Audi Cup final on penalties
Liverpool 1 - 1 Atletico Madrid (Atletico win 5-4 on penalties)
Liverpool were denied their second pre-season trophy after suffering a penalty shoot-out defeat against Atletico Madrid in the final of the Audi Cup at the Allianz Arena.
Jurgen Klopp made nine changes to the side which defeated Bayern Munich 3-0 in the semi-final, with Phil Coutinho, Mo Salah, Daniel Sturridge and Alberto Moreno all absent from the squad.
It was a surprise to see Sadio Mane start after playing …
Loris Karius: Forgotten But Not Gone
Amid all the summer madness of transfer talk, as well as the constant praise for goalkeepers Simon Mignolet and Danny Ward, Loris Karius is now a player going completely under the radar.
Having arrived as a devilishly handsome, highly-rated young German, it was no surprise to see him filling column inches and gaining immediate admirers last summer. He felt like the answer to Liverpool's ongoing goalkeeping issues.
Things didn’t pan out the way the 24-year-old would have hoped for, however, …
The 'Keeper Conundrum!
Heading into the summer transfer window, it has been well documented that as a club, we have some areas in which we are particularly sparse in terms of playing staff - left-back and centre forward spring immediately to my mind. But one area in which we definitely aren't short is in between the sticks, but that still doesn't stop the newspapers linking us to more or less every half decent goalkeeper in Europe.
It's not just the senior ranks in …
Liverpool FC Squad Analysis: The Depth Chart
During his first summer transfer window Jurgen Klopp is slowly shaping the Liverpool squad to fit his tactics, his style of play and the personalities he wants in the dressing room.
We’ve seen stalwarts such as Skrtel moved on and Mignolet marginalised, with more departures expected in the coming weeks and maybe one or two new faces coming in.
With less than one week to go before the Premier League season kicks off, how is the newly shaped team looking?
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DoF Fantasy Series Part 5: How I’d spend £100m at Liverpool
Liverpool’s ridiculously named “transfer committee” has been a hot topic in recent years.
Some think they epitomise everything that’s wrong with the club’s transfer strategy, but maybe their detractors are yet to realise that the spine of Klopp’s new-look side is made up of “committee” signings.
Emre Can, Roberto Firmino, Divock Origi, and Mamadou Sakho were all first choice under the German once the squad had settled following a spate of injuries.
Can and Firmino were the club’s best players …
Fan Media vs Mainstream Media - The Shaky Head Journalist
It's not often you get chance to compare football with wrestling without it being a stretch but now feels appropriate. The mid 90's saw the emergence of World Championship Wrestling (WCW), a wrestling company intent on taking on the already established World Wrestling Federation (WWF now known as WWE). Ted Turner, founder of CNN, had an idea. He didn't want to share the market with WWF, he wanted to own the market. Eric Bischoff went about making it a reality.
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Klopp's Keeper Conundrum
Football fans are the masters of kicking players when they're down. You would think that when someone is in dire need of our support and love, we would shower them with comfort and reassurance, messages of positive praise or maybe some motivational quotes to boost their already dwindled confidence. But what do we do instead? Criticise. And I don't mean the constructive kind. The main objective is to lambaste, pillory, berate, abuse, mock, insult, vilify and nothing else. We all …
Danny Ward's time to shine?
After yet another mistake, this time against Sunderland, Simon Mignolet's time as undisputed Liverpool number 1 must be nearing an end. The ex-Sunderland 'keeper has had a torrid time this season and his 'mistakes' have cost Liverpool an apparent 15 points according to Squakwa.com. It's not as simple as this but add those 15 points to the clubs current tally now and it takes Liverpool to 50 points, and second in the league table.
Goalkeeping errors against Sunderland, Arsenal and …