“IT was a good performance, it was not brilliant, but maybe the most mature we’ve played since I was in.” There was a point in the game in which Virgil van Dijk stepped into midfield, though probably still in front of Everton’s striker, and lashed a...
WHAT makes a good defence? Is it clean sheets? Is it a high tackle percentage? Is it restricting your opponents to as few goalscoring chances as possible? Or is it just the way we feel about it? I spend a lot of time these days paying careful attention to the language...
IF Liverpool fail to qualify for the Champions League, it won’t be the defence that’s to blame. It’s commonly accepted that Liverpool are electric going forward and porous at the back, a Kevin Keegan-esque Newcastle reincarnate, intimidating on the front foot but...
WEDNESDAY’S draw at home to Bournemouth felt like a crushing defeat. A scruffy, late equaliser when three crucial home points were required was just an unnecessary kick in the teeth. For the final 25 minutes, Jürgen Klopp opted to invite pressure; adopting a back five...
I’M going to start this by saying something just so I don’t get panned for saying something that I’m not saying: Loris Karius has started poorly, failed to save things he should have, cost us points and generally not given us much encouragement for the...
