Author: Liam Togher
Premier League week 30 round-up: Liverpool left to rue Rashford’s return to form and refereeing woes
Just over two years since netting a decisive quick-fire first half brace against an established rival on his Premier League debut, Marcus Rashford did the same again on Saturday as Manchester United inflicted Liverpool’s fourth league defeat of the season. While the quality of the young striker’s finishes was considerable, the manner in which the […]
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Where Are They Now?: Nabil El Zhar
As a Liverpool fan from Ireland, I don’t get many opportunities to witness my favourite team first-hand; the target is generally one visit to Anfield a season, plus whatever pre-season games are convenient to attend (last August’s match in Dublin helped). It’s a bit of an anomaly, then, that I’ve twice seen a Moroccan winger […]
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Will battle of the red giants produce a winner?
It was nine years ago this week that Manchester United and Liverpool met at Old Trafford as the top two in the Premier League. While both teams’ title ambitions for 2018 have faded, not since that 2009 epic have they been so similarly placed in the table, making this perhaps the biggest clash of the […]
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Premier League week 29 round-up: Patience pays off as Liverpool climb to second
It wasn’t the rip-roaring, free-scoring Liverpool to which we have become accustomed, but Saturday evening’s 2-0 win over Newcastle was no less satisfying. The Reds had to be patient against opponents who have a habit of making it difficult for the league’s top sides, but the breakthrough eventually came four minutes before half-time and again […]
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Where Are They Now?: Erik Meijer
The phrase ‘cult hero’ is one that is regularly heard in football, one that usually describes an individual who may not have performed with lasting distinction on the pitch but whose personality or deeds endeared them to a particular group of supporters. For Liverpool fans, few players fit the cult hero moniker quite like Erik […]
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Can Liverpool March on after almost flawless February?
Aside from Harry Kane’s 94th-minute penalty, February was a perfect month for Liverpool. The Reds have taken a firm grip on a place in the top four and look odds-on to progress to the Champions League quarter-finals, while the fixture list for March doesn’t look overly taxing, save for a visit to Old Trafford. Jurgen […]
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Premier League week 27 round-up: Liverpool pass 100-goal mark for the season in West Ham drubbing
A second 4-1 victory over West Ham this season on Saturday bolstered Liverpool’s top four ambitions with 11 games of the season to go. Both teams hit the woodwork in the opening minutes, Loris Karius doing brilliantly to tip Marko Arnautovic’s effort onto the bar, before Emre Can headed to the net from close range […]
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Where Are They Now?: Joe Cole
English football is not averse to adorning promising teenage players as the country’s ‘great white hope’ for the future. So starved has the national team been of anything bordering on success that when an abnormally gifted young talent takes to the Premier League like a duck to water, there is a tendency to hail them […]
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Premier League week 27 preview: Liverpool with second in their sights
By the time they kick off against West Ham on Saturday, Liverpool will have had a 10-day break since their Champions League romp in Porto, the unexpectedly long gap between games giving rise to the opportunity for a training camp in Spain. The Reds go into the weekend on a real high after the 5-0 […]
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FA Cup Round 5 round-up: Spurs held but other big guns ease through to last eight
While Liverpool spent the weekend at a warm weather training camp in Spain following their red-hot Champions League display in Porto, several other Premier League sides were involved in FA Cup duty. The big guns all avoided each other and it’s no great surprise that all of them made it into the quarter-final, which was […]
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