By Gary Fulcher. Liverpool claimed back to back league victories for the first time this season with the 3-2 victory over West Ham on Sunday and the Reds will be hoping to make it three in a row when we host Aston Villa on Saturday afternoon, 3pm kick off UK time. That win over the [...]
By Gary Fulcher. Liverpool travel to East London to face Sam Allardyce’s West Ham United at Upton Park on Sunday, 4pm kick off UK time. The Reds secured their place in the last 32 of the Europa League after securing an impressive 1-0 win at Udinese on Thursday evening. The Hammers currently sit three points [...]
By Chris Rowland and Liverpool FC and European Football historian Graeme Riley. This is an updated version of the Preview used for the home match against Udinese, which we lost 2-3. Group A Table after 5 games: Anzhi Makhachkala 10 pts Liverpool 7 pts Young Boys 7 pts Udinese 4 pts The permutations: If Liverpool win [...]
By Gary Fulcher. Liverpool’s eight game unbeaten run in the league came to an end at White Hart Lane on Wednesday evening with a 1-2 loss to Tottenham Hotspur. Next up for Brendan Rodgers’ side is a home match against Nigel Adkins’ Southampton, 3pm kick off UK time. Southampton are embarking on a four game [...]
By Gary Fulcher. Liverpool extended their un-beaten run in the Premier League to eight games (three wins, five draws) following the 0-0 draw at Swansea City last Sunday and that un-beaten sequence will be put to the test with the visit to White Hart Lane on Wednesday evening to face Andre Villas Boas’ Tottenham Hotspur, [...]
By Gary Fulcher. Liverpool’s 3-0 victory over Wigan Athletic last Saturday ended a five game win-less sequence for Brendan Rodgers’ side, and a first victory at Swansea since a 3-0 win in 1982/83 would see the Reds move up into the top ten outright for the first time this season. The game is on Sunday, 1.30pm [...]
By Liverpool FC and European Football historian Graeme Riley and Chris Rowland. This is an updated version of the thread used for the away game against Young Boys. Young Boys of Bern are Liverpool’s next opponents, the fifth game in the group stages of the Europa League. The game will take place at Anfield on Thursday [...]
Welcome to the new style TTT match preview. With Gary’s usual match set-up, Daniel’s new stats section and Mihail’s tactical appraisal of what we might expect, it all adds up to the best match preview around! Match preview By Gary Fulcher. Liverpool will be hoping to improve upon a poor home record – just seven [...]
By Gary Fulcher. Liverpool follow up the gruelling Europa League trip to Russia in mid-week with a trip to London to face Chelsea at Stamford Bridge on Sunday (4pm kick off UK time), though most of the side expected to be picked for Sunday will not have made that arduous trek. Chelsea in comparison had [...]
By Chris Rowland. Just a brief fresh thread for this game, as the home leg’s almost broke under the sheer weight of – er, debate. Anzhi are relative newcomers on the European scene, helped enormously by the wealth of the region coming from oil reserves extracted in recent years. The club was bought by local billionaire Suleyman [...]
By Gary Fulcher. Liverpool’s 1-3 defeat to Swansea City in the Capital One Cup on Wednesday night has left the Reds with just the Europa League as a distraction from league matters until January. Last Sunday’s 2-2 draw with Everton at Goodison Park has left Brendan Rodgers’ side sitting in 12th place with a negative [...]
By Gary Fulcher. Liverpool will be hoping to avoid a Halloween horror show against Brendan Rodgers’ former side Swansea City at Anfield on Wednesday evening (8pm kick off UK time). The Capital One Cup 4th round tie at Anfield will be the first time Rodgers will face his former side, now managed by Michael Laudrup, since [...]
By Gary Fulcher. Brendan Rodgers takes charge of his first Merseyside derby on Sunday with the 187th league meeting between the two sides (1.30pm kick off UK time) at Goodison Park. The Reds claimed their first home victory in the league with the 1-0 win over Reading on Saturday thanks to Raheem Sterling’s first strike for [...]
By Graeme Riley. Anzhi are relative newcomers on the European scene, helped enormously by the wealth of the region coming from oil reserves extracted in recent years. The club was bought by billionaire Suleyman Kerimov, with the funding being provided indirectly by the president of Dagestan, the region in which they are based. The club had struggled [...]
By Mihail Vladimirov Liverpool lined-up largely as expected – the only change from the last two league matches was Jones replacing the injured Reina between the sticks. On the other side Reading also lined up as predicted. Probably the only real surprise was that Leigertwood was fit to start, given the doubts surrounding him before [...]
By Gary Fulcher. Liverpool are back in Premier League action following the international break with a home clash against Brian McDermott’s Reading (Saturday 3pm kick off UK time). The Reds kept their first clean sheet in the league against Stoke City but couldn’t secure a first home win in the Premier League of 2012/13 with [...]
By Gary Fulcher. Liverpool look to claim their first league win of the campaign at Anfield on Sunday (3pm kick off UK time) with the visit of Tony Pulis’ Stoke City. Thursday night’s 2-3 defeat at the hands of Udinese in the Europa League means we’ve won just one of the last six games we’ve [...]
By Gary Fulcher. Liverpool travel to Carrow Road on Saturday (3pm kick off UK time) fresh from an impressive performance and result against West Bromwich Albion at the Hawthorns in the 3rd round of the Capital One Cup. As a reward for the 2-1 victory over Steve Clarke’s side, Brendan Rodgers will welcome his former side [...]
By Gary Fulcher. Liverpool begin their defence of the League Cup title we won last season with a tie against Steve Clarke’s West Bromwich Albion at The Hawthorns on Wednesday evening (8pm kick off UK time). The Reds will be hoping to gain some manner of revenge for our opening day reverse against the Baggies, [...]
By Gary Fulcher. Liverpool and Manchester United lock horns for the first time this season at Anfield on Sunday (1.30pm kick off UK time) in what is Liverpool’s first home match since the findings of the Hillsborough Independent Panel were made public last week. It promises to be an emotional occasion and both sides will [...]
By Liverpool FC and European Football historian Graeme Riley. The rather dodgy sounding Young Boys of Bern are Liverpool’s next opponents, the first game in the group stages of the Europa League. The game will take place at the Stade de Suisse, previously known as the Wankdorf Stadium, this completing the rather strange sounding nature [...]
By Gary Fulcher Now that another ludicrously timed and highly disruptive international break is over, Liverpool return to Premier League action with a trip to Wearside to face Martin O’Neil’s Sunderland (17.30 kick off UK time) at the Stadium of Light. Both teams have yet to claim maximum points in the league to date, with [...]
By Gary Fulcher. Brendan Rodgers will be hoping for a first league win of the campaign against Arsenal on Sunday (1.30pm kick off UK time), and by my calculations it seems we are well overdue the three points against Arsene Wenger’s side at Anfield. The Reds have won just one of the last five meetings [...]
By Gary Fulcher. Liverpool face Heart of Midlothian at Tynecastle (19.45 kick off UK time) in a Europa League Play-off 1st leg tie on Thursday evening. Surprisingly it will mark the first ever competitive meeting between the two clubs. At stake for the winners is entry into the Europa League group stage, where teams like Atletico [...]
By Gary Fulcher. Liverpool face their toughest test yet under Brendan Rodgers, with reigning champions Manchester City our first opponents of the season at Anfield (4pm kick off UK time). Whether Mancini genuinely thinks we can challenge for the title this season or not, the Reds will be hoping to record a first victory of [...]
