Author: Liam Togher
Premier League week 11 preview: Can Liverpool land a Hammer blow in London?
The 3-0 wins over Huddersfield and Maribor in the previous week have seen the patience of Liverpool fans being tested, but the Reds can look back on both games with a sense of satisfaction that they eventually won handsomely and with two clean sheets. There have been numerous occasions where they were simply unable to […]
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Champions League matchday 4 round-up: Liverpool made to work for win over Maribor
Liverpool’s 3-0 win over Maribor on Wednesday night was almost a carbon copy of the victory against Huddersfield at the weekend – a frustrating first half which ended goalless, a missed penalty, an early second-half goal to settle the nerves and eventually a comprehensive victory. Having been hit for seven in Slovenia, Maribor were far […]
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Champions League Matchday 4 Preview: Will it be another Maribor massacre?
After a stuttering start to their Champions League group stage campaign, Liverpool did their chances of knockout round qualification the world of good with a 7-0 hammering of Maribor in Slovenia two weeks ago and the expectation is that the Reds will follow that up with another win at Anfield this Wednesday to strengthen their […]
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Premier League week 10 round-up: Patient Liverpool plunder three precious points
In the end, a 3-0 win over Huddersfield was comfortable for Liverpool, but for long spells on Saturday it seemed as if this would be another classic case of a team arriving at Anfield to set up defensively and frustrate the impotent hosts. Deprived of the services of Philippe Coutinho and Sadio Mane, there was […]
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Where Are They Now?: Anthony Le Tallec
When France won the Under-17 World Cup in 2001 in swashbuckling style, most of the attention focused on the two kids they had playing up front – Florent Sinama-Pongolle and Anthony Le Tallec. It came as little surprise that fellow countryman Gerard Houllier signed the pair for an increasingly Gallic Liverpool squad after that tournament, […]
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Premier League week 10 preview: Reds hope to avoid Halloween horror show against Huddersfield
Last Sunday’s trip to Wembley could hardly have gone any worse for Liverpool, when the level of defensive ineptitude they showed was startling even by their recent standards and Tottenham were only too happy to take advantage. That disastrous result has ramped up the pressure on the Reds to make amends this Saturday when they […]
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Premier League week 9 round-up: Liverpool self-inflict capital punishment
Anyone who has watched Tottenham over the last couple of years will know that they have some formidable attacking players who don’t require the charity of an insipid defence to help them score. Unfortunately, that’s exactly what they got from a hapless Liverpool outfit on Sunday as Spurs cruised to a second Wembley win in […]
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Where Are They Now?: Igor Biscan
The 2004/05 season made heroes of several players at Liverpool who were previously regarded as fringe squad members or passengers who were dismissed as deadwood. The likes of Djimi Traore, Florent Sinama-Pongolle, Harry Kewell and Neil Mellor are certainly not amongst the finest to have pulled on the red shirt and played in front of […]
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Premier League week 9 preview: Reds are off to Wembley
Both Liverpool and Tottenham go into their Premier League clash on Sunday buoyed by excellent results in the Champions League midweek. Spurs were very good value for a 1-1 draw away to holders Real Madrid – indeed, they might count themselves slightly unlucky not to have won – while the Reds emphatically made up for […]
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Champions League matchday 3 round-up: Seven up for rampant Reds
Goalscoring has been a major issue of late for Liverpool, but on Tuesday night in Slovenia they finally enjoyed a game where the number of goals they notched was ideally proportionate to the chances that they created. The dam well and truly burst on a Maribor side who absolutely did not help themselves, with the […]
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