“HE gets forward and he shoots, he takes freekicks as a teenager in the Champions League. “That tells you he’s not only got the confidence in himself, his teammates have confidence in him and that is huge.” Confidence is a strange concept in football....
LIVERPOOL answered a few questions and raised a few new ones at the John Smith’s stadium. Jürgen Klopp was the manager who rotated the most last season in the Premier League, but we haven’t seen anywhere near as much of that this campaign. That all changed...
“IF it is an open game at Anfield, you don’t even have one chance, not even one per cent of a chance. “Up and down I’m pretty sure they are the best team in the world in these transitions, offensive, defensive. It is built for that. In that situation, they are...
YOU can blame the pitch. You can blame the lack of changes from the weekend. You can blame Jürgen Klopp’s tactics on the night, or that he refused to make a positive substitution until it was too late. Whatever avenue of finger pointing you choose to explore,...
IN a game which felt like a throwback to a decade ago, what a contest between two very modern football teams. Back in those days it was Rafa Benitez and Jose Mourinho locked in enthralling tactical battles, with players of supreme quality all over the pitch. Chelsea...
THESE are the European nights they always talked about. Those nights where Anfield rose as The Reds downed Europe’s big boys. Chelsea and Juventus in 2005, Saint Etienne in ’77. Jürgen Klopp and his charges are creating their own. Writing their own...
WHO can stop these Reds? It feels as though every weakness that used to be levelled at this Liverpool side has been corrected, and that Jürgen Klopp has been constantly learning during his tenure. In his first full season at the club, The Reds struggled against the...
WATCHING it in the ground is hard, you know. There’s a reason I’m starting by saying that. For one, you simultaneously feel the pressure a lot more and also a lot less. Liverpool were under the cosh for the last 20 against Leicester City, at the very least. And yet...
STAFF shakeups seem to have become a regular occurrence since Jürgen Klopp took the reins at Liverpool. The German brought trusted sidekicks Zeljko Buvac and Peter Krawietz with him from Borussia Dortmund — putting paid to Sean O’Driscoll’s time as assistant,...
WHEN you can’t get the goal difference, settle for winning every game and never conceding again. Brighton seemed to have learned their lesson from last season and were well drilled to plug gaps and kick everybody in a red shirt on sight. Fair play to them, it...
