Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has claimed that Liverpool is still his team’s biggest challenger for the Premier League title. The Reds currently find themselves sitting 10th in the table, 14 points behind league-leading Arsenal. Nevertheless, the Spaniard believes Liverpool “always have been, and always will be,” fighting for the trophy. Guardiola supports these claims […]

The Liverpool injury crisis continues as Joël Matip and Trent Alexander-Arnold join the list of players to hit the sidelines. Including these two, Liverpool has eight senior players unavailable due to various injuries. Both Matip and Alexander-Arnold are set to miss two weeks. Matip has a calf issue, while his English teammate picked up an […]

Liverpool forward Luis Díaz picked up an injury in the Reds' game at Arsenal at the weekend. The Colombian tried to continue play, but withdrew from the contest before halftime. After the game, Díaz left the stadium on crutches. Plus, he had a brace surrounding his knee. It is likely the Luis Díaz injury occurred […]

Manchester United and Liverpool have a deep rivalry featuring some of the world's best players. In the past, the two had eras of dominating over the Premier League and extending its power into Europe. Likewise, both had eras of relative failure. Seasons where no player looked to be a difference maker and the results never […]

On Saturday, the 2022 Community Shield is the stage for Liverpool and Manchester City to pick up where they left off a season ago. Yet again, the two sides face off in direct competition with silverware on the line. The aspirations of both sides for the season far surpass a successful result on Sunday. But, […]

Possession is something that each team takes into account when trying to reach the Champions League Final. Pep Guardiola's reimagining of total soccer pushed possession into becoming a dominant statistic. In fact, it is often the first thing on stat reports during postgame analysis. In the big five leagues of Europe, three of the five […]

Liverpool's balancing act is more challenging than most clubs. Injuries, runs of form and matchups are things that each manager deals with. Jurgen Klopp is no different. Only his Liverpool side are well in the running for a quadruple. The true test comes from how Jurgen Klopp balances his side with three trophies to play […]

London (AFP) – Jurgen Klopp has backed Liverpool's "bad losers" to deliver a strong response when they face Brighton on Saturday stung by only their third defeat this season. Klopp's side were beaten 1-0 by Inter Milan in the Champions League last 16 second leg on Tuesday. Although Liverpool advanced to the quarter-finals 2-1 on […]

At 65 years of age, Arsenal manger Arsene Wenger is most likely nearing the end of an outstanding career as a soccer manager.  Since going from a relatively little-known manager to being appointed as Arsenal’s leader in 1996, Wenger has without a doubt become one of the greatest managers in Premier League history. During his […]

I missed the first round of games on family vacation. While I still have the Gladbach-Bochum game on DVR to watch for fun, my first game of the season, albeit delayed, was Dortmund's 1-0 victory at home over Köln. It was a thoroughly deserved victory where Dortmund put the Billy Goats to the sword and […]

Have goals ever been so important? With two games remaining, points are only marginally more important than goal difference in the hunt for survival, Europe and even the Meisterschaft. Wolfsburg silenced the critics and showed their professionalism by keeping their outstanding home-form (remember the only points dropped at the VW were back in August) by […]

Young-Pyo Lee has joined Dortmund after the club agreed to terms with Tottenham Hotspur for the South Korean fullback. Lee's survival at Spurs this long has been something of a oddity for us Lilywhites as he had fallen behind Gareth Bale, Benoit Assou-Ekotto, Jamie O'Hara and Gilberto in Juande Ramos' estimation. He had been a […]

This week we make the short trip west on the A40 from Dortmund past Bochum to Gelsenkirchen, home to Schalke 04 and their new coach, Fred Rutten. Much like his new Ruhr rival, Jürgen Klopp, Rutten has been a one club man for almost his entire 30-year playing and coaching career, all with FC Twente […]