By Gary Fulcher, Daniel Rhodes and Mihail Vladimirov. Liverpool bring the 2012/13 campaign to an end with a visit to Anfield of relegated Queens Park Rangers on Sunday, 3pm kick off UK time. The Reds secured a comfortable 3-0 victory in the reverse fixture back in December, thanks to a brace from Luis Suarez and [...]
By Gary Fulcher, Daniel Rhodes and Mihail Vladimirov. Our penultimate game of the season sees us travel to Craven Cottage to face 12th placed Fulham on Sunday – 3pm kick off UK time. Fulham just need a single point from their two remaining games to all but guarantee their Premier League survival for another year, due [...]
By Gary Fulcher. Liverpool host Everton on Sunday – 1.30pm kick off UK time – in what will be the 188thMerseyside derby in the league. The Reds are fresh from hammering Newcastle Utd 6-0 – our biggest league win since we thrashed Derby County by the same scoreline back in September 2007 – while Everton’s [...]
By Gary Fulcher, Daniel Rhodes and Mihail Vladimirov. Liverpool travel to St James’s Park to face relegation threatened Newcastle United on Saturday evening, with a 5.30pm kick off UK time. The Reds lost the corresponding fixture 0-2 last season thanks to a brace from Papiss Cisse, in a game that also saw Pepe Reina sent [...]
By Gary Fulcher, Daniel Rhodes and Mihail Vladimirov. Liverpool welcome Rafa Benitez back to Anfield for the first time since he was sacked in June 2010 with the visit of Chelsea on Sunday – 4pm kick off UK time. The corresponding fixture last season saw the Reds secure a 4-1 victory courtesy of goals from [...]
By Gary Fulcher, Daniel Rhodes and Mihail Vladimirov. Liverpool travel to the Madejski Stadium on Saturday – 3pm kick off UK time – where they face bottom side Reading in what will be just the tenth official meeting between the two sides. The Reds secured a 1-0 victory at Anfield back in December with Raheem [...]
By Gary Fulcher, Daniel Rhodes and Mihail Vladimirov. Liverpool host West Ham United at Anfield on Sunday – 1.30pm kick off UK time – with Brendan Rodgers’ side sitting four places and 12 points above Sam Allardyce’s Hammers who occupy 11th having picked up 36 points. The corresponding fixture in 2010/11 saw the Reds record a [...]
By Gary Fulcher, Daniel Rhodes and Mihail Vladimirov. Liverpool travel to Villa Park on Sunday – 1.30pm kick off UK time – hoping to prevent Paul Lambert’s relegation strugglers from completing a first league ‘double’ over us since the 1992/93 campaign, when they recorded a 4-2 win at Villa Park and a 2-1 victory at [...]
By Gary Fulcher, Daniel Rhodes and Mihail Vladimirov. Liverpool’s 3-2 victory over Spurs last Sunday saw the Reds claim three consecutive league victories for the first time under Brendan Rodgers and moved us up to 6th place, the highest we’ve been all season. Next up is a trip to St Mary’s to face 16th placed Southampton on [...]
By Gary Fulcher, Daniel Rhodes and Mihail Vladimirov. Liverpool will be hoping to claim a third consecutive league victory for the first time since April/May 2011 – when the Reds defeated Birmingham, Newcastle and Fulham – with victory over Andre Villas-Boas’ Tottenham Hotspur at Anfield on Sunday, 4pm kick off UK time. Spurs enter this [...]
By Gary Fulcher, Daniel Rhodes and Mihail Vladimirov. Liverpool’s trip to the DW Stadium to face Roberto Martinez’s Wigan Athletic on Saturday – 5.30pm kick off UK time – will be our 800th fixture in the Premier League, a milestone only six other clubs can reach this weekend. The Reds secured a comfortable 3-0 win in [...]
By Graeme Riley and Daniel Rhodes. The return leg at Anfield (Thursday, kick off 20.05 UK time, ITV1) sees us trying to overturn that 0-2 defeat in St.Petersburg to progress and play Dnipro or Basel (Basel won their home leg 2-0 also). Zenit have returned 1,000 unsold tickets for the Anfield Road Lower, which have gone on [...]
By Gary Fulcher, Daniel Rhodes and Mihail Vladimirov. Liverpool follow up their gruelling away trip to St Petersburg in the Europa League on Thursday with a home fixture against Michael Laudrup’s Capital One Cup finalists on Sunday – 3pm kick off UK time. The 0-2 defeat against West Bromwich Albion at Anfield last Monday evening [...]
By Graeme Riley. Zenit are the largest football club in St Petersburg, formerly Leningrad, Russia’s second city, and they have a long and largely successful history. They have in recent seasons been involved in controversy, particularly around the behaviour of a section of their support which has been vocally anti-gay and against anyone who is [...]
By Gary Fulcher, Daniel Rhodes and Mihail Vladimirov. After earning respectable draws against Arsenal and Manchester City away from home in recent weeks, Liverpool return to Anfield to face Steve Clarke’s West Bromwich Albion side on Monday evening, 8pm kick off UK time. Liverpool lost the reverse fixture on the opening day of the season [...]
By Gary Fulcher, Daniel Rhodes and Mihail Vladimirov. Liverpool head to Eastlands to face the reigning champions Manchester City on Sunday – 4pm kick off UK time - boosted by an encouraging 2-2 draw with Arsenal on Wednesday evening, and a new addition to the squad in the shape of promising young Brazilian Phillipe Coutinho. [...]
By Gary Fulcher, Paul Tomkins, Daniel Rhodes and Mihail Vladimirov. While a big freeze has been hitting hard in parts of England, the race for 4th place is heating up nicely as Liverpool (7th) travel to the Emirates to face Arsenal (6th) on Wednesday evening (7.45pm kick off). Both clubs hold ambitions – with varying degrees of [...]
By Gary Fulcher. Liverpool take a breather from league affairs with a trip to Boundary Park to face Oldham Athletic in an FA Cup 4th round tie on Sunday, 4pm kick off UK time. Paul Dickov’s side sit just outside the relegation zone in League One and have won just one of their last seven league [...]
By Gary Fulcher, Daniel Rhodes and Mihail Vladimirov. One tough away fixture down, two to go but before we travel to Arsenal and Manchester City in the coming weeks, we have a home fixture against 12th place Norwich City on Saturday, 3pm kick off UK time. Three points are a must having lost at Old Trafford [...]
By Gary Fulcher, Daniel Rhodes, Paul Tomkins and Mihail Vladimirov. Liverpool begin a sequence of tough away fixtures in the league with the small matter of a trip to Old Trafford to face the league leaders and current form team of the division, Manchester Utd, on Sunday (1.30pm kick off UK time). The Reds suffered [...]
By Gary Fulcher and Chris Rowland. Liverpool’s 2012/13 FA Cup (or the FA Cup with Budweiser, as we must now call it) journey gets underway on Sunday, with a trip to the non-league setting of Mansfield Town’s Field Mill (or One Call Stadium, as we must now call it). Kick off is 16.00 UK time. The match is subject [...]
By Gary Fulcher The Reds begin 2013 with the visit of Martin O’Neill’s Sunderland to Anfield on Wednesday evening, 7.45pm kick off UK time. The 3-0 victory over Queens Park Rangers on Sunday meant we ended 2012 on a positive note, despite the outbreak of a virus that resulted in Brendan Rodgers being forced to [...]
By Gary Fulcher. After a disappointing defeat to Stoke City on Boxing Day, the Reds travel to Loftus Road to take on bottom placed Queens Park Rangers on Sunday (4pm kick off UK time) in what is our final game of 2012. Our 1-3 defeat to Stoke was the tenth occasion we’ve conceded two or [...]
By Gary Fulcher. Liverpool begin a busy and tough looking run of fixtures over the next month or so with a Boxing Day visit to Stoke to take on Tony Pulis’ side, 7.45pm kick off UK time. The Reds play four matches in the space of 12 days over the Christmas/New Year period, with three [...]
By Gary Fulcher. Liverpool’s final home game of 2012 sees the Reds face Martin Jol’s Fulham, with a 5.30pm kick off UK time. We’ve endured a poor time at Anfield over recent seasons, but with just five league victories at Anfield over the past 12 months, it’s clear we need to vastly improve upon our [...]
