TAKUMI Minamino, then. The Red Bull Salzburg attacker has been a name on the lips of many in Liverpool for the past week, inciting feelings of fear and danger as The Reds faced a tricky tie against the Austrian’s on Tuesday. Of course, the game was negotiated with...
THE many differences between Klopp’s and Guardiola’s tactics have been spoken and written about for as long as recent memory serves. The Spanish style of tiki taka and the German gegenpressing, which define what both managers do about as well as the UK has defined its...
THERE’S a scene in the film The Commitments where Joey ‘the Lips’ Fagan, the elderly trumpet player with ‘the hardest working band in the world’, finally loses patience with his saxophonist Dean Fay. Over the past weeks Dean has refused to don the regulation tuxedo...
THEM and us. Us and them. Hearts unbroken. Far from it. No one wanted to wake up in the Europa League on Wednesday morning. There should be rules against this sort of thing. I don’t know: Adults only? It isn’t that RB Salzburg and their manager...
MADDEST team ever, them. Was like their manager made them all lash a load of Red Bull down their necks before the game started, watched them all run on fast forward for the first 45. They only have a few players with genuine quality but I’m sure they snuck a few...
THE evolution Liverpool have gone through under Jürgen Klopp has been remarkable. Emerging from Brendan Rodgers’ final season where the club had seemingly lost both their identity on the pitch and the collective relationship with fans off it, the German has fortified...
DEATH, taxes and Liverpool victories. They’re not the three only certain things in life, just three things that seem to be annoying the vast majority of the nation at the moment. The latter seems to be particularly annoying to former Manchester City player Trevor...
FOR an optimist, I can’t half talk myself into some negative mindsets. We’re eight points clear at the top of the league with bookies close to closing bets on us for the league. We are beating every thing that moves, and yet Salzburg away terrifies me. Perhaps...
“IN the current climate.” “The market rate.” “Inflated prices.” You might associate the following phrases with the beginnings of a political rant, but they’re in fact all increasingly common phrases used when referring to the modern day football transfer market. They...
THERE it is. The comfortable away win with the clean sheet. It can’t get much more comfortable and it probably won’t for the rest of the campaign. We’ve been waiting for this, waiting to see it. When it occurred it was like a warm bath on a cold day....
A Resurgent Reds Await Champions League Fate: TAW Midweek Extra
The Anfield Wrap’s midweek podcast looking back at the Champions League ties of the week with an eye on who Liverpool might face in the next round before having a chat about the Reds evolution, what it’s likely direction of travel is and how it’s likely to shape up going into next season.
Neil Atkinson is joined by Keifer MacDonald, Pete Bolster and Andy Bell.
Also in the show, John talks to comedian Jim Daly about his upcoming tour ‘Match Of The Daly’
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