Neil Atkinson’s post-match review for The Anfield Wrap after Liverpool 2 Aston Villa 0 in the 2025-2026 Premier League at Anfield… IT FELT NORMAL when it has been anything but. That was the best thing about the win. It is normal. It is repeatable. It is...
Things are tough at the minute for Liverpool: for players, staff and supporters. Yet Arne Slot remains the right man to weather the storm… THIS WASN’T Northampton Town in 2010. It was the same competition and stadium. Same biblical rain and same image of...
Neil Atkinson’s post-match review for The Anfield Wrap after Liverpool 0 Crystal Palace 3 in the 2025-2026 Carabao Cup at Anfield… ON THE WHOLE you always have to hope calm heads prevail and you always have to hope Liverpool have calm heads. The manager...
A fourth Premier League defeat in a row was marked out as the worst under Arne Slot as Brentford’s approach seemed to surprise Liverpool… I MEAN… There are some defeats I can forgive. I can forgive losing to a last minute goal as you can be prone to them...
Arne Slot, Mo Salah and more widely Liverpool have had to endure negativity recently, but in football results quickly change a narrative… CULTURE wars. They’re not funny or clever. Mostly because they involve people who are neither funny nor clever doing...
Neil Atkinson’s post-match review for The Anfield Wrap after Frankfurt 1 Liverpool 5 in the 2025-2026 Champions League in Germany… WINNING. Winning is good. By that I don’t just mean the final whistle, the win is done and dusted. By that I mean...
An unthinkable fourth defeat on the spin for Arne Slot’s Liverpool requires some tough conversations and even tougher choices to be made… WELL, IT IS WHAT IT IS. There are numerous ways we can approach this. A full rant and rave about the defence, about...
Neil Atkinson’s post-match review for The Anfield Wrap after Liverpool 1 Man Utd 2 in the 2025-2026 Premier League at Anfield… LIVERPOOL create an enormous amount of chances, hit the woodwork three times, deal with an appalling referee and concede from a...
The passage of time allows for apt comparisons on occasion, but we should not jump to conclusions with this modern day Liverpool… THIS isn’t a comparison piece. But do me the honour of rewinding back to 1 September 2014, when there remained a...
Emotions affect us all differently, and in the world of Liverpool FC – whether as a player or supporter – they can be felt more intensely… AS IT TURNS OUT, three isn’t a magic number. De La Soul, amongst others, lied to us. It’s been a tough week...
A victorious Monday Anfield Wrap after Liverpool came from a goal down to swat Newcastle United aside with, in the end, aplomb with electric performances from Hugo Ekitike and Florian Wirtz supported by an encouraging performance from the boys in Red.
Also in the who, we profile Liverpool’s late deadline day bid for Jérémy Jacquet from Rennes as Liverpool head off interest from Chelsea for the promising French central defender.Neil Atkinson is joined for the show by Beth Lindop, Ian Ryan and Adam Melia.
