“TAKE a walk around my centre half, gentlemen. He’s a colossus.” That was Bill Shankly’s famously declaration when the media first clapped eyes on Ron Yeats in a Liverpool kit back in 1961. Shanks was keen on an exaggeration, but Yeats went on to prove the...
THE international break seems to have gone well for Liverpool… Touch wood. No one seems to have exerted themselves too much. Sadio Mane had the furthest to travel, but even he was left out the starting 11 in the second game before coming on for the last 15...
A special Gutter to discuss and celebrate Liverpool signing Virgil van Dijk. How significant is the statement of intent both inside and outside of the club? Were Manchester City still after the player? What should we be expecting from him this season? Joining an...
The Gutter is back. Rob Gutmann in the chair and looking forward to January like nobody’s business. What will Liverpool look to do? Well first and foremost he is looking Philippe Coutinho and asking the question about the pressure Liverpool might come under....
Liverpool break their transfer record and may well smash it again before the week is out not once, but twice! Joining Rob Gutmann for what feel’s like the home straight of the transfer window are Gareth Roberts, Paul Senior and Craig Hannan.
With yet more Virgil van Dijk denials from Southampton, new names have emerged in Liverpool’s search for a centre back, with The Reds now linked with Schalke’s Benedikt Hoewedes. And with fresh Philippe Coutinho claims emerging from Barcelona, should Liverpool be...
Neil Atkinson is joined on the Gutter by Ian Ryan, John Milburn and Craig Hannan to work through what exactly is happening to prices and what is happening with Keita, Coutinho, van Dijk and Emre Can. It is indeed all go. Despite the fact no one is going anywhere. What...
THE summer should, ideally, be made up of long lazy days dreaming of how Liverpool will rip it up next season and gather some cups come May. Everything is possible and nothing is impossible at this stage. Without the hopes and dreams, what’s the point? They...
ROB Gutmann hosts Gareth Roberts, Mo Stewart and Paul Senior as the panel try to make sense of the latest transfer rumours around Liverpool. Could the Reds really, somehow, actually be in for Kylian Mbappé? Could the much-wanted teenage Monaco star end up at Anfield...
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Liverpool 2 Southampton 0: The Anfield Wrap
For our free podcast looking at Liverpool 2 Southampton 0, Neil Atkinson hosts Rob Gutmann, Chloe Bloxam and Goal.com‘s Neil Jones…
Here’s what Jonesy had to say in his post-match column: “Leicester beware. Liverpool are still fighting. Despite everything, despite the knocks and the setbacks and the injuries, the Reds are still there.
Somehow.
The race for Champions League qualification goes on. Jurgen Klopp’s side simply had to win here and they did, Sadio Mane’s header and Thiago Alcantara’s first goal in English football giving them a battling 2-0 victory over Southampton at Anfield on Saturday evening.
With Leicester surprisingly beaten at home by Newcastle 24 hours previously, it means Liverpool have closed to within six points of the fourth-placed Foxes with a game in hand.
And Leicester’s final three fixtures, in case you had forgotten, are away to Manchester United, away to Chelsea and at home to Tottenham. Ouch.
Liverpool will surely, at the very least, need to win all four of their remaining games, starting at Old Trafford on Thursday. They have not won there under Klopp, of course, but this would be an ideal time to alter that.
