Liverpool FC is on the crest of a wave at the moment, and the performance level in Friday’s 2-0 win over Wolverhampton Wanderers was described as ‘perfect football’ by no less a judge than Jurgen Klopp.
The cynics might just suggest that the Crystal Palace is game one we would have lost 12 months ago.
You can certainly make a case as such; we definitely lost too many points in tricky-but-winnable encounters like a trip to Selhurst Park last term. Let’s face it, Manchester City would be strongly fancied to down the Eagles.
It was almost as if they’ve never been away.
Fresh from a season that promised to deliver so much, the Reds got right back in the saddle and blew West Ham away in a sublime show of attacking football.
Reaching the Champions League final was a real statement of intent from Liverpool, who are ready to take their seat at continental football’s top table once more. The final revealed a couple of things: how close we are to mixing it with the very best, and how it’s essential we improve upon our weakest links to take that next step.
There have been many pulsating nights of European football at Anfield over the years, and most will live on in the hearts and minds of Liverpool fans for decades to come. You wonder if Wednesday’s 3-0 win over Manchester City will join them in the pantheon of legendary continental performances. Continue Reading
And so the biggest week of Liverpool’s season begins. The meat of the sandwich is the Merseyside derby on Saturday, but on this occasion the bread is the tastiest morsel on the menu; the Champions League quarter-final clash with Manchester City, with the first leg at Anfield on Wednesday and the second at the City of Manchester Stadium next Tuesday. Continue Reading
This is a sentiment that will be agreed with and dissented in equal measure, but for our money the goalkeeper is the most important player in any football team.
There are three things that Jurgen Klopp would adore from Liverpool’s Champions last 16 first leg tie with Porto: a win, obviously, but failing that an away goal or a clean sheet wouldn’t go amiss.
We suggested that the blockbuster clash with Arsenal would be something of a goal-fest, and to be fair it hardly took investigative powers of Columbo-esque proportion to come to that conclusion. There was no need to call in the detectives to analyse just how we beat Swansea 5-0 on Boxing Day either.