Author: Liam Togher
Premier League week 4 round-up: Misery in Manchester as Mane sees red
Many predictions made for the Manchester City v Liverpool fixture on Saturday hinted that there would be goals aplenty and, with the scoreboard was bothered on five occasions, so it proved. What very few expected that was all five of goals would arrive for the home side as Liverpool slumped to their joint heaviest defeat […]
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Where Are They Now? Djibril Cisse
In football, a broken leg is right up there with the worst injuries a player can endure. It has the potential to rule a player out for the best part of a year; indeed, any recoveries in the sub-nine month mark are notably quick. Sometimes it can end careers, either literally or effectively, as a […]
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Premier League Week 4 Preview: Can the Reds temporarily go top?
With seven points from a possible nine on the board and Champions League group stage qualification secured without too much difficulty, Liverpool have every reason to be satisfied with their early season form, and a win on Saturday lunchtime will put them top of the Premier League for a few hours at least. However, they […]
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World Cup qualifiers review: Three Liverpool players on the scoresheet
As ever on international weekends, there were plenty of Liverpool players representing their countries across all corners of the world, with the World Cup qualifiers now entering a critical phase. For some Reds, it was a weekend to remember; for others, it was one they would much rather forget. Here’s a round-up of how various […]
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Where Are They Now? Andriy Voronin
In the early part of the 21st century, Ukrainian football was in its pomp. Dynamo Kiev had reached the Champions League semi-finals in 1999 and that team boasted outstanding talents like Andriy Shevchenko and Sergei Rebrov. Both of those would later play in the Premier League but didn’t come to replicating their best form on […]
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World Cup Qualifiers Preview: Part Two
Following on from part one of the preview of the international break from a Liverpool perspective, here’s how the Reds involved with the home nations, plus two of Europe’s heavyweights, will be occupied over the forthcoming days. Emre Can – Germany The reigning world champions invariably stroll through qualification for major tournaments as a matter […]
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Assessing Liverpool’s Champions League group stage opponents
After overcoming Hoffenheim in a play-off that was more comfortable than most of us expected, Liverpool are back in the Champions League group stage and further good news arrived on Thursday when the draw was quite charitable to the Reds. In contrast to three years ago when they had to contend with defending champions Real […]
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Premier League week 3 round-up: Lethal Liverpool up to second
Two weeks ago, Liverpool were counting the cost of dropping two points at Watford in stoppage time, anxiously preparing for a crucial Champions League play-off against Hoffenheim and fearing the consequences of the likely sale of Philippe Coutinho. On Sunday, after a scintillating performance in a 4-0 romp over Arsenal, the Reds are up to […]
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Where Are They Now? Jerzy Dudek
The contribution of goalkeepers in Liverpool’s European Cup final history is fabled, with the highly eccentric Bruce Grobbelaar distracting Roma’s penalty takers to death in the 1984 showpiece at Stadio Olimpico and a Polish successor employing similar tricks (though not as comically cartoonish) in Istanbul’s Ataturk Stadium 21 years later. Indeed, it was Grobbelaar’s ‘spaghetti […]
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Premier League week 3 Preview: Resurgent Reds face Arsenal test
Liverpool’s first major test of the season, ensuring qualification for the Champions League group stage, has been passed with flying colours, so it’s onwards to another significant challenge on Sunday, namely their first domestic match of the campaign against a direct rival. These are the types of games in which they excelled last term and […]
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