Real Madrid await the victors from the tie involving Liverpool and AS Roma tonight in the Stadio Olympico but Liverpool go into the game with a three goal advantage. This is a Liverpool side which has demonstrated so much quality across the campaign and which looks as...
“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...
Sat in the office yesterday chatting the worst Friday wham you can imagine when my colleague Gareth Roberts piped up about the Watford game at the start of the season feeling like ages ago and he had a point, but maybe not in the way he might have meant. Is 217 days...
ON the The Anfield Wrap’s “Review” show after the Southampton game, host Neil Atkinson said a few things that chimed with me. Developments in recent weeks had gotten me thinking, and Neil’s words on that show offered some corroboration. In amongst the...
In our long look at Liverpool’s win at Southampton we discuss the different phases of the game. Liverpool putting early pressure on the Saints, the home side coming back to donate the ball in the first period but unable to carve Liverpool open, and the Liverpool...
ALL eyes were on the world’s most expensive defender on Sunday. The return of Virgil van Dijk just over a month after his record £75million move from Southampton to Liverpool was always going to be the headline, but an assured and measured performance from the...
IT’S been another depressing few days in the world of Liverpool FC. From the massive high of ruining Manchester City’s unbeaten run to the predictable defeat by the side currently sitting bottom of the league, it has all felt typically Liverpool in a way we’d all...
PERCEPTION is an intriguing concept in football. The perception of our modern-day footballers can gain influence both directly and unconsciously through the things we absorb from the plethora of content we consume daily. Gone are the days when your only football-based...
TOM JOHNSON I’M writing this the week after our new £75million colossus of a centre back scored a late winner on his debut, in the derby, in the FA Cup third round. It doesn’t get much more Roy of the Rovers than that. But, it’s another central defender who recently...
That was good wasn’t it? Liverpool were dreadful but Virgil van Dijk popped up to win the match for the Mighty Boys In Red and Liverpool swagger away into the distance into the fourth round of the FA Cup. The Reds found a way, found a third consecutive 2-1 win...
