by David Segar | Sep 26, 2017 | Footie, Match Ratings
HOLD on while I dust off my template opening for most Liverpool games over the last few years. Something something unlucky. Something else poor finishing. Something or other incredible opposition goalkeeping, and then also sloppy goal conceded. Blah blah blah beer in...
by Andy Heaton | Sep 26, 2017 | Footie
SO sum that up? From the moment the Champions League draw was made and everyone started talking about how Liverpool had done alright alarm bells started ringing, because we’ve been here before and it’s not ended well. Of Liverpool’s last two sojourns into the...
by The Anfield Wrap | Sep 26, 2017 | Footie
ANOTHER story of missed chances for Liverpool in their second Champions League group game. For all the stick the defence get, and all the praise the attack get, The Reds have missed too many clear-cut chances in recent games. Anyway, here are Anfield Wrap contributors...
by Phil Greene | Sep 26, 2017 | Footie
FOOTBALL is a bit mad, isn’t it? Essentially, it’s 90 minutes of chaos and luck which is decided one way or another by a handful of defining moments. Whether a team wins, loses or draws comes down to their number 10 curling in a freekick, three players keeping their...
by The Anfield Wrap | Sep 26, 2017 | Podcast, TAW Player, The Coach Home
Three teams with reasons to be cheerful on this week’s Coach Home. First up Bradley Hayden talks about a Watford side which looks more than strong enough to challenge for seventh this season so far bar one blip against Manchester City. Alan Wares is delighted...
by The Anfield Wrap | Sep 25, 2017 | Podcast, TAW Player, Under The Lights
As Liverpool land in Russia for tomorrow’s Champions League match with Spartak Moscow, John Gibbons is joined by Paul Senior, Andy Heaton and Gareth Roberts to look ahead to the game. Gareth also speaks to Sasha Goryunov, a Red, a Russian, and a writer and...
by The Anfield Wrap | Sep 25, 2017 | Podcast, TAW Player, The Review
The manager should be overjoyed by that performance against Leicester City and that of his substitutes and it is that which Sean Rogers and Paul Cope find themselves also delighted. Why did it go so well for the manager? There was a shift in attitude and approach from...
by Joel Rabinowitz | Sep 25, 2017 | Footie
THERE were numerous positives to take from Liverpool’s 3-2 victory against Leicester City. It was an utterly chaotic encounter which put an end to a fairly grim couple of weeks for Jürgen Klopp’s side. Defensive concerns remain, of course, but the sense of relief when...
by Rob Gutmann | Sep 25, 2017 | Footie
WORD is that Spartak Moscow are a bit rubbish. Champions of all Russia after 16 years of winning bugger all, the mardy Muscovites have celebrated their Premier League homecoming by turning to jelly. They aren’t so much defending their crown as pawning it to pay...
by Ben Johnson | Sep 25, 2017 | Footie
FOOTBALL has a way, every now and again, of conjuring up a defining match out of an otherwise routine game. A rhetoric builds, a pressure is exerted and all of a sudden, a precipice is presented with a couple of obvious options. Take your chance, leap into the unknown...
