DID you witness the sheer, unadulterated brilliance of that Barcelona performance on Tuesday night? Were you fortunate enough to see with your own eyes the unprecedented artistry of the genius called Lionel Messi? Did the earth move for you too? Not for me, Clive. Not...
JOE Gomez didn’t half look a good player on Tuesday night. Did you see the way he accelerated to cover Dejan Lovren when Moussa Marega threatened to run in behind Liverpool? Did you notice the intelligent positions he took up when Trent Alexander-Arnold sold himself a...
IF the Premier League insist on inscribing “Lucky Liverpool” on their trophy next month, I don’t suppose it will spoil the title celebrations for any of you. Champions are rarely popular. They are never lucky. Liverpool got a little lucky just before...
LIVERPOOL Football Club has produced several great players and one truly great leader. There may be another one on the way. The strong statesmanship of Sir Kenny Dalglish made the immediate aftermath of the Hillsborough Disaster somehow a little more bearable for...
WELL, somebody’s got to say it… That was not a great Liverpool performance. Not for me, Clive. Great result, deserved result, decisive result. Such a great result that you can tell me that the performance doesn’t matter, tell me to stop being a grumpy old man, tell me...
YOU kind of know when you’ve seen the champions play. You just do. There is not one defining quality or trait that singles out the team that finishes top of the league, they just have an air about them — a certain demeanour, a bearing, a whiff of something...
I HOPE it wasn’t bullshit. I really do. I hope there were raised voices in the visitors’ dressing-room at Old Trafford last Sunday and I hope the loudest of them belonged to the Liverpool manager. Jürgen Klopp dismissed reports of heated exchanges in the wake of the...
MANCHESTER City are the bookmakers’ favourites to retain the Premier League title, and there isn’t a Liverpool player, coach or fan who seems to mind that too much. That’s got to change eventually. Liverpool teams have been wonderful underdogs at various times during...
YOU don’t know you’ve been in love until someone breaks your heart. You don’t know just how much you support your team until they really piss you off. My 23-year-old son was in the away end at West Ham. His allegiance is one reason that I take enough of an interest in...
DISAPPOINTMENT, frustration, but let’s not pretend we are too surprised. Liverpool have produced that kind of passable performance on a number of occasions this season but found a way to win. Last night they didn’t. End of. It’s not too long ago that they might have...
For our free podcast looking at Liverpool 2 Southampton 0, Neil Atkinson hosts Rob Gutmann, Chloe Bloxam and Goal.com‘s Neil Jones…
Here’s what Jonesy had to say in his post-match column: “Leicester beware. Liverpool are still fighting. Despite everything, despite the knocks and the setbacks and the injuries, the Reds are still there.
Somehow.
The race for Champions League qualification goes on. Jurgen Klopp’s side simply had to win here and they did, Sadio Mane’s header and Thiago Alcantara’s first goal in English football giving them a battling 2-0 victory over Southampton at Anfield on Saturday evening.
With Leicester surprisingly beaten at home by Newcastle 24 hours previously, it means Liverpool have closed to within six points of the fourth-placed Foxes with a game in hand.
And Leicester’s final three fixtures, in case you had forgotten, are away to Manchester United, away to Chelsea and at home to Tottenham. Ouch.
Liverpool will surely, at the very least, need to win all four of their remaining games, starting at Old Trafford on Thursday. They have not won there under Klopp, of course, but this would be an ideal time to alter that.
