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Porto 0-5 Liverpool: A Tactical Breakdown

Liverpool are one of the few clubs still undefeated within the Champions League, but few expected the utterly dominant display, away to Porto, which effectively ended the tie. How then did Liverpool approach the game? For while the scoreline suggests a brutal decimation of Porto, it was not quite that simple. The match was predominantly played...

One Hit Wonders: Sebastian Coates

One Hit Wonders. There have many throughout the years so I’d start by listing my favourites 80's - Nu Shooz with I Can’t Wait. It wasn’t a rapper who came up with that tune! 90's - Haddaway, What is Love? We’re still trying to work it out. 00's - Take your pick. Lots of...

Liverpool Players Should Prepare For Porto’s Away Dressing Room

So I thought I’d write this piece as I have the first-hand experience of being in the Away Dressing room in Estadio Do Dragao, having been on a stag do in Porto a few years back and going to the stadium for a day out. It’s a wonderful modern stadium and I really like what...

Klopp And Lijnders Plotting Success

There's a lot of talk about spectrums these days. Sexuality, politics, autism - nearly everything, it seems, is subject to a scale or gradation. I have discovered recently, for example, that I am annoyingly close to the unpleasant end of the spectrum determining the severity of damage to one's brain as a result of...

Iker Casillas: A New Number 1?

Upon achieving Champions League qualification, fans immediately suspected Liverpool would be linked with higher-profile players than usual. Yet the link to Real Madrid legend, former Spain captain, and current Porto goalkeeper Iker Casillas caught everyone by surprise. Whilst we should always treat transfer reports with scepticism it's an intriguing link nonetheless. However, first we must consider...

What Ruben Neves would bring to Liverpool

The link to Ruben Neves is a strange one. It's not out of the ordinary to see a player of his profile being linked with a move to Liverpool in the media. He's young, talented and has a huge resale value if he lives up to his potential. He ticks the boxes. It's that...

The Impossible Job – Balancing the Liverpool Attack

beIN Sports thought they'd try their hand at being a news source for Liverpool fans on Tuesday night. They casually slipped the fact Napoli were raising funds for a move for Porto's Hector Herrera by selling star striker Gonzalo Higuain to Liverpool in an article about the Mexican. It's the sort of claim sane Liverpool...