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Former Liverpool midfielder Naby Keita has been suspended for the remainder of the Bundesliga season and fined by Werder Bremen after refusing to travel with the squad for last weekend’s loss at Bayer Leverkusen. The club said in a statement the player went home after finding out he was not in the starting XI for the game which Bayer won 5-0 to claim their first-ever Bundesliga title and end Bayern Munich’s 11-year dominance of German football. Werder Bremen are 12th in the table and just five points above the bottom three in the Bundesliga. A club statement read: “Werder Bremen…
Liverpool were the better side by almost every metric when they faced Manchester United on April 7th. They weren’t better where it mattered most, though, the final score, dropping two important points in a 2-2 draw. Against Atalanta mid-week in the Europa League quarter-final first leg, Jürgen Klopp’s side had a chance to react. Instead they put in a woeful performance, lost 3-0, and now have one foot out of that competition. On Sunday against Crystal Palace, things got worse. A poor first half saw them behind 1-0, and despite a second half rally that’s how the game ended, and…
Liverpool’s trip to Goodison Park will see David Coote return to the VAR booth to oversee the action, nearly four years after famously missing Jordan Pickford’s challenge on Virgil van Dijk. Jurgen Klopp‘s side will make the short trip across Stanley Park on April 24, a fixture that is crucial at both ends of the table. Andy Madley will referee the Merseyside Derby, with Coote appointed VAR for the Wednesday evening kickoff. Coote’s appointment makes his past transgressions unavoidable, as he is at Stockley Park for a Goodison derby for the first time since that incident in 2020. That incident,…
Conor Bradley had to be assisted off the pitch on Sunday with an ankle injury, and he is set for three weeks on the sidelines – meaning his season is not over prematurely. The 20-year-old was forced from the field only moments after the second-half restart, hurting himself in a tackle which added further misery to Liverpool’s afternoon. Klopp revealed that Bradley’s ankle issue appeared to have “settled quickly” in the immediate aftermath, having initially not looked too promising. And now Sky Sports report the defender will be out for “up to three weeks” after undergoing scans on his ankle…
Premier League clubs being determined to avoid profitability and sustainability sanctions could make it a difficult transfer window for Manchester United and Liverpool this summer. Top-flight clubs in England are currently walking a tightrope amid the tightened regulations, with both Everton and Nottingham Forest having faced points deductions this season. Man Utd have to move on from 13 players even if Erik ten Hag gets sacked Man Utd boss Erik ten Hag will walk into new job if INEOS swing the axe Chelsea are also reportedly in a precarious situation, needing to make big-money sales ahead of the 2024/25 campaign…
Everyone was hoping for a reaction on Sunday after Liverpool produced an out-of-character performance in the Europa League. One of the strong points of Jurgen Klopp’s reign as Liverpool manager has been his quite incredible record at Anfield. There came a point when Virgil van Dijk went 70 games without losing on home soil, now he has lost back-to-back matches, including 1-0 to Crystal Palace to dent the team’s Premier League title chances. Matters were made worse, or morale was boosted, depending on how you see it, when hours later, Arsenal went on to lose to Aston Villa. Say what…
The past week or so has been one of the toughest of the Jurgen Klopp era for Liverpool. In case being thrashed at home by Atalanta wasn’t enough on Thursday, the Reds followed it up by likely putting themselves out of the running for the Premier League title on Sunday. In truth, it had been coming. The warning signs had been there after the previous weekend’s draw against Manchester United. But Liverpool failed to heed them and bore witness to two extremely damaging Anfield defeats. Fortunately, it isn’t something we’ve had to get used to under Klopp. The Reds usually…
Liverpool’s Premier League title fate is no longer in their own hands after taking just one point from their last two games, which has given Manchester City the chance to jump above them and lead the way going into the final six matches of the campaign. The Reds are still only two points behind Pep Guardiola’s side and will go above them with a win at Fulham on Sunday, as the Etihad Stadium outfit are on FA Cup duty against Chelsea next weekend, so all is certainly not lost in the pursuit of domestic glory. However, the margin for error…
Liverpool had 85 minutes including stoppage time in which to find an equalizer against Crystal Palace on Sunday and it failed to do so. The Reds have shown fantastic powers of recovery in 2023/24, but although they had several good chances, a goal was not forthcoming. Supporters have grown wearily accustomed to Liverpool starting matches slowly this term. Eberechi Eze’s winner on Sunday was the seventh time the Reds have conceded in the first 15 minutes of a match in the Premier League this season, the 10th in all competitions. The numbers could easily have been uglier still. There have…
Jose Mourinho’s brutal title race prediction appears to be coming true after a weekend of twists in the Premier League. Arsenal and Liverpool were joint-top of the Premier League table at the start of the weekend, but by Sunday evening they found themselves trailing defending champions Manchester City. After City thrashes Luton Town 5-1 on Saturday, Liverpool suffered a shock 1-0 loss to Crystal Palace at Anfield. Jurgen Klopp’s side had not lost a home match in over a year, but a combination of wasteful finishing and superb defending condemned them to defeat. That gave Arsenal the chance to go…