by Andy Heaton | Oct 22, 2017 | Footie
THE only surprising thing about Liverpool conceding comical goals is that people are still surprised. The manager can bang on all he wants about defending as a team and opportunities to defend situations before they hit the back four but sometimes bad defending is...
by Adam Smith | Sep 28, 2017 | Footie
THE Anfield Wrap’s Paul Cope wrote an article about Simon Mignolet on Wednesday which raised some interesting points. One particularly interesting point raised was that you can simultaneously think that Liverpool could do with a better number one but also not think...
by Paul Cope | Sep 27, 2017 | Footie
“THEY’RE not mutually exclusive.” I’ve found myself saying that phrase over and over again recently. I’ve noticed it tends to happen. I’ll say something once then it becomes my flavour of the month only, this time, I’ve been saying it for so long it’s become one of my...
by Josh Sexton | Jul 11, 2017 | Footie
“IT is like it is and nothing is decided, they can all show how good they are. I don’t want to bring doubt so that they start doubting. “We have three goalkeepers and they can all show what they are able to do, and then we will see who will start.” The words of Jürgen...
by Andy Heaton | May 18, 2017 | Footie
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...
by Michael Nevin | May 5, 2017 | Footie
LIVERPOOL’S newly acquired habit of winning ugly, predominantly away from home, in the recent tussles at Stoke City, West Brom and Watford has coincided with a form of redemption for Simon Mignolet. The goalkeeper, much maligned by fans and pundits alike throughout...
by The Anfield Wrap | Mar 16, 2017 | Footie
IT’S been one of many contentious issues Jürgen Klopp has had to face throughout his time at Anfield and one which shows no sign of ending, writes JOEL RICHARDS. Who should be his number one? Simon Mignolet or Loris Karius? Or does he bin them both off and sign...
by Phil Blundell | Feb 8, 2017 | Footie
IT happened, didn’t it? The thing you thought might not happen again, that you’d convinced yourself might be a thing of the past, that you thought had disappeared. Yeah, that’s right you thought that the brain-fart had been eliminated from Simon Mignolet’s game. But...
by Adam Smith | Jan 26, 2017 | Footie
LET me make this absolutely, 100 per cent, crystal clear: Southampton deserved to win last night. They deserved to win at Anfield, they deserved to win at St. Mary’s and they definitely deserved to make it through to the final over the course of two legs. That doesn’t...
by Adam Smith | Jan 5, 2017 | Footie
THESE days, there seems to be a common tendency to want something to go a certain way just so people can say they were right, even if it has a negative impact elsewhere. Anybody waiting to be proven right ‘when’ Liverpool ‘inevitably’ miss out on the league title, for...
