Liverpool 0 FC Porto 0: Match Review

Liverpool 0 FC Porto 0: Match Review

THIS is the eighth Champions League game at Anfield this decade. For all the talk of maybe staying in the pub, of maybe there being something else to do: the eighth. It’s 2018. The average has been one a year. At the end of last season, Jürgen Klopp said this is...
Liverpool 0 FC Porto 0: Match Ratings

Liverpool 0 FC Porto 0: Match Ratings

Pre Match THIS is all but sorted, isn’t it? The amount of spares knocking about you would think these aren’t bothering sending a team tonight and are putting out 10 bottles of Superbock with a piri-piri chicken in goal. Let me take you back, circa 2003, to a...
FC Porto 0 Liverpool 5: Match Review

FC Porto 0 Liverpool 5: Match Review

IT’S a magnificent Liverpool victory. An historic one and one which signposts exactly where Liverpool stand in Europe’s current reckoning. Imagine this was Barcelona or Real Madrid or Bayern Munich going to somewhere like Porto and doing this. Imagine...
FC Porto 0 Liverpool 5: Match Ratings

FC Porto 0 Liverpool 5: Match Ratings

SO The Reds are in the European Cup knockouts for the first time since we were all either a) kids, b) optimistic, or c) less baldy. These are what proper nerves are all about. Apparently, the last time we had one of these was that mad Chelsea one where Javier...
Southampton 0 Liverpool 2: Match Ratings

Southampton 0 Liverpool 2: Match Ratings

THE South Coast Everton 0 Liverpool 2. The Reds went into this afternoon’s game with the knowledge that a win would well and truly ensure second place is all of our business, and they delivered against a side who love a “boo” so much at the mere sight of...
Southampton 0 Liverpool 2: Match Review

Southampton 0 Liverpool 2: Match Review

THE game is about the second goal. The second goal tells us everything about the game and about these two teams and where they are right now. It is a goal Southampton never score. It is a goal Liverpool score all the time. Or a goal it feels like we score all the...