The Premier League’s race for European football is setting up for an exciting finale. A host of clubs with differing budgets and playing styles are in the running to feature in UEFA’s three elite competitions in 2023/24. As the battle for continental qualification hots up, we’ve used the Twenty3 Toolbox to analyse the teams involved.…
Liverpool face Everton this weekend in one of the most significant Merseyside derbies in recent memory. Liverpool have usually had the better of their neighbours from across Stanley Park but they appear to be in free-fall at this moment in time – losing three of their last five Premier League fixtures. Everton had been in…
Sometimes, the World Cup shines a light on a talent you’ve never heard of before. On other occasions it underlines the quality of a player already widely rated. Enzo Fernández is the latter. The 21-year-old Argentine has been carefully watched by the European elite for some time now and proved just how good he is…
Fabio Carvalho’s Liverpool debut was brief but eventful. The 19-year-old summer arrival hit the post, linked well with Luis Diaz on the left-hand side and showed his defensive abilities, recovering the ball on three occasions in the Manchester United half. Jurgen Klopp made planned wholesale changes in Bangkok after 30 minutes. Liverpool had only just…
Liverpool don’t tend to go big in the transfer market, but when they do, they do so for a reason. The Reds have parted with over £65million on two occasions – the first to bring in Virgil van Dijk from Southampton before they repeated the feat six months later when they signed Alisson Becker from…
The January transfer window is a difficult one to navigate. Convincing a team to part ways with a prized asset midway through a campaign is never easy and a premium is usually added onto the valuation for the inconvenience. Yet Liverpool have had plenty of success when shopping during this time of the year. Luis…
Every club in the world would like their very own Mohamed Salah. The Liverpool forward turned out to be a bargain, relatively speaking. In the same summer Paris Saint-Germain paid over £200million to pry Neymar away from Barcelona, Salah returned to the Premier League in a deal believed to be worth in the region of…
Mohamed Salah is arguably the most in-form player in the world right now. The Liverpool forwarded netted a stunning individual goal and provided an assist in the 2-2 draw with Manchester City to take his goal involvement tally to 12 in nine matches this season. The prolific Egyptian – who has 134 goals in 212…
When Liverpool racked up 196 points across two Premier League campaigns, they did so by controlling, well, everything. They dictated play when in possession and bossed the opposition when out of it. They replaced the heavy metal football – that chaotic, basketball-style approach they utilised during Jürgen Klopp’s earlier years at Anfield – with something…
Everyone involved in the world of football had the same question in October – how would Liverpool replace Virgil van Dijk? The Dutchman hobbled off in the Merseyside derby. It was later confirmed that he had suffered an ACL injury and that he’d likely not be seen on the pitch again this season. The one…