Author: Liam Togher
Champions League matchday 2 round-up: Liverpool fail to punish negative Spartak
A draw in away Champions League games is regularly perceived as a good result, but for Liverpool the sense was definitely two points dropped as they had to settle for a 1-1 stalemate against a depressingly negative Spartak Moscow side. From the moment the Russians lined out with five defenders, the die was cast and […]
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Champions League matchday 2 preview: Can Liverpool spark against Spartak?
Liverpool’s inability to kill off a vulnerable Sevilla outfit at Anfield two weeks ago has raised the stakes for Tuesday’s visit to Spartak Moscow, current champions of Russia, on matchday two in the Champions League. If there was one positive from Liverpool’s draw last time around, it was that Group E’s other match also ended […]
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Premier League week 6 round-up: Reds take roundabout route to overdue victory
It was suitably chaotic but, in the end, Liverpool got the job done. A month which began with such optimism had turned sour and many fans understandably feared a fourth consecutive defeat at the King Power Stadium on Saturday evening, but Leicester’s attack-minded setup played into Liverpool’s hands. Mohamed Salah missed an early sitter but […]
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Where Are They Now?: Andrea Dossena
Liverpool’s relationship with Italian football is not the best. Both of the club’s European Cup final defeats were against Serie A opposition, while most players from the peninsula who have tried their luck at Anfield haven’t had too much of it. One such individual was Andrea Dossena, the left-back who, even in his late 20s, […]
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Premier League week 6 preview: Reds out for instant revenge against Leicester
It isn’t exactly the stuff of dreams to return to the site of a bad experience within four days, but that’s the task with which Liverpool are faced as they take to the King Power Stadium pitch for the second time in less than a week. Last Tuesday, a much-changed Reds team came unstuck against […]
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Premier League week 5 roundup: Liverpool draw little home comforts
Any hopes of a title charge for Liverpool last season perished on substandard results against the supposed ‘weaker’ teams in the Premier League, not least at Anfield. It’s an itch that Jurgen Klopp’s team have struggled to scratch in his time on Merseyside and there was a sense of Groundhog Day about Saturday’s 1-1 draw […]
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Where Are They Now? Aly Cissokho
In 25 years of the Premier League, the closest Liverpool have come to lifting the title was in 2013/14, when they finished just two points short of eventual winners Manchester City. What made that title charge somewhat surprising was that the Reds did not notably strengthen in the transfer window leading up to the season, […]
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Premier League week five preview: Can Liverpool get back on track against Burnley?
Liverpool headed into the international break on the high of a 4-0 thumping of Arsenal and successful qualification for the Champions League proper, but last week’s tame surrender at Manchester City and a failure to put away Sevilla despite dominating the Spanish side have put a much bleaker complexion on their early season form. A […]
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Champions League matchday one roundup: Reds pay for profligacy on group stage return
If ever there was such a thing as a 2-2 defeat, that is what happened to Liverpool on a thoroughly frustrating night at Anfield as they tossed away two valuable points upon their Champions League return against Sevilla. The visitors took an early lead when Dejan Lovren’s pathetic attempt at a clearance left Wissam Ben […]
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Champions League matchday 1 preview: Reds out for revenge against Sevilla
Having overcome Hoffenheim in the play-offs, Liverpool are back in the Champions League proper for the first time in three years and will be hoping to avoid a repeat of their last two campaigns at this level, both of which ended in group stage failure. They have a tricky opening fixture this Wednesday as they […]
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