Match Reports

Liverpool Match Reports

Match Report

Match Report: Liverpool 2-1 Leicester City

Pre-season tournaments can be a recipe for disaster. There are a number of ingredients which can contribute to this. Firstly, who are you playing? If you are playing teams from your own country or division, especially teams you are expected to beat, then people start to look into your performances very deeply. Secondly, what is […]

Read More
Match Report

Match Report: Crystal Palace 0-2 Liverpool

Pre-season tours can be difficult on the legs of football players. After long hours travelling to some far, flung destination, all the ordinary person would want to do is lie back and wait for the jet lag to take hold. But for footballers there is no time to rest. After arriving in Hong Kong on […]

Read More
Match Report

Pre-Season Match Report: Tranmere Rovers 0-4 Liverpool

In 1892 at the beginning of Liverpool’s first ever season,  bunch of rag tag players assembled from different clubs descended on the Anfield sports and athletic grounds to prepare for the clubs first season in the Lancashire combination. Fast forward to 2017 and the club begins its 125th pre-season campaign in stark contrast. Sporting the […]

Read More
Match Report

Liverpool Ease Their Way Into Champions League Spot

It was the final game of the season, and the equation was simple — if Liverpool wins, they would make Champions League football. However, the task wouldn’t be easy as Middlesbrough have only lost 1 game against Liverpool in their last 10 games home and away. There was just one change for the Reds, a […]

Read More
Match Report

Liverpool Hit West Ham For Four

Liverpool were up against West Ham which was like a cup final to some extent as, if the Reds were to win this, they would take a major step forward in their pursuit of Champions League football next season. There were a couple of changes to the Liverpool line-up as Daniel Sturridge and Adam Lallana […]

Read More
Talking Points

The Key Talking Points from Liverpool’s disappointing draw with Southampton

36 games played, two remaining, and somehow Liverpool still find themselves in the league’s top three. Another abject display at home was followed by Manchester United dropping points again, and you’d have to think that these favours can only be handed so many times. Sunday’s game was poor, there’s absolutely no two ways about it. Bar […]

Read More
Match Report

Liverpool vs Southampton: Liverpool unable to break down defensive Saints

Liverpool were back at Anfield after scraping past Watford at Vicarage Road. The Reds were hoping to break this Southampton defence, something they have been unable to do so in the last three meetings. Klopp named the same XI that played against Watford. There was some surprise to see no Adam Lallana in the starting […]

Read More
Match Report

Liverpool Grind Out Crucial Win at Watford

Grinding out results. It’s a phrase that gets lashed around a lot. It’s particularly a phrase used for successful teams who are playing inferior teams to themselves but don’t turn in the type of performance or result expected of them. When you think of this phrase though, what do you think of? Determination, grit, doing […]

Read More
Talking Points

Talking Points from Liverpool’s Tight Win At Watford

Vicarage Road, Watford – It wasn’t pretty, it wasn’t fluid, in fact this game will only be remembered because the goal that won it may be one of the best that the Premier League has ever seen. Emre Can’s glorious overhead kick gave us a moment of magic in what was a rather uneventful match. […]

Read More
Match Report

If Anyone Can, Emre Can

Liverpool were up against Watford after a shocking loss to Crystal Palace. Though Liverpool could have taken some confidence that Klopp hasn’t lost back to back games in the Premier League. Though we can turn stats this way or that, because Watford was also the team that Klopp suffered his biggest loss to in his […]

Read More