Liverpool Tactical Analysis

Liverpool progress, but questions linger around Cody Gakpo Liverpool’s 4-1 FA Cup win over Barnsley moved Arne Slot’s side into the fourth round, yet the scoreline masked a performance that prompted sharp analysis on the Daily Red Podcast. Speaking in his familiar lunchtime slot, Dave Hendrick delivered a typically forensic breakdown, reserving his strongest criticism...

Liverpool Forced Into January Action After Bradley Blow Liverpool’s January plans have been jolted into life by misfortune rather than ambition. Conor Bradley’s serious knee injury, sustained against Arsenal, has left Arne Slot confronting a problem that cannot be parked until the summer. As first reported by Sky Sports reporter Florian Plettenberg, Liverpool are now...

Liverpool 4 – 1 Barnsley – FA Cup Third Round Postmortem After a week defined by scrutiny, tension, and the lingering pressure that has followed Liverpool throughout this uneven campaign, Anfield welcomed a fixture that offered clarity rather than complication. The FA Cup may no longer sit at the peak of English football’s priorities, but...

Arsenal 0 – 0 Liverpool – Premier League Postmortem By Steven Smith After a week that saw two high-profile managers relieved of their Premier League duties, Arne Slot would have arrived at the Emirates with the sense that scrutiny is never far away. A visit to table-topping Arsenal is rarely forgiving, yet the context added extra...

Liverpool’s Interest in Jérémy Jacquet Reflects a Familiar Long-Term Logic Liverpool’s recruitment strategy has often been most revealing not in the players they sign, but in the profiles they pursue. Jérémy Jacquet may not yet be a household name, but the discussion around him offers a clear insight into how Liverpool continue to think about...

Liverpool’s Defensive Thinking Reveals a Market Played on Two Timelines Liverpool’s approach to recruitment has rarely been about immediacy alone. Even when the pressure of a transfer window intensifies, the club’s thinking tends to stretch beyond the next fixture list, shaped instead by longer arcs of squad planning and tactical evolution. That context matters when...

Fulham vs Liverpool – Premier League Preview Date: Sunday, 4 January 2026 Venue: Craven Cottage Kick-off: 15:00 BST Liverpool head into West London as a side still searching for coherence rather than momentum. The goalless draw with Leeds on New Year’s Day brought the brief feel-good factor of December crashing back to reality, exposing once again the creative...

Liverpool vs Wolves – Premier League Preview Date: Saturday, 27 December 2025 Venue: Anfield Kick-off: 15:00 BST Christmas will have come and gone by the time this game rolls around and the league table holds little sympathy. Liverpool return to Anfield knowing this stretch of the season will either validate their recent recovery or expose it as another...

Tottenham Hotspur 1 – 2 Liverpool – Premier League Postmortem After a week in which momentum had finally begun to replace panic, Liverpool arrived in North London knowing that results, rather than performances, were doing much of the heavy lifting. What followed was another three points, another step forward in the table — and yet...

Glasner Interest Highlights Liverpool Concerns After Early Season Slide Liverpool find themselves in an uncomfortable conversation far earlier in the season than anyone on Merseyside anticipated. According to Caught Offside, senior figures Richard Hughes and Michael Edwards are seriously weighing up Crystal Palace manager Oliver Glasner as a potential successor to Arne Slot. Although no...