The Liverpool Offside
Zeppeline, Trinken, & Pink Badeshorts
Total reads
3,134
This week
0
Rank
#73 of 464
Published
1,428 posts
Last 12 weeks
Most read posts
Featured on Sportsblogs
Run this blog? Add the badge to your site to show readers you're featured — it links back to this page.
Latest Entries
Lewis Koumas on First Liverpool Goal: “I Was Just Waiting for the Next Chance”
Liverpool’s decision to head into the 2026-27 season with just one fit established senior striker meant a lot of both hope and uncertainty for academy graduate Lewis Koumas, who started the season as a 20-year-old with one appearance the sum of his career in Red to date. That appearance came in the FA Cup against […]
Iraola On Liverpool’s Packed Schedule: “We Need Everyone!”
Liverpool manager Andoni Iraola made plenty of changes for Wednesday’s Champions League tie against LASK, taking the opportunity to rest and rotate whoever he could given his Reds were set to play three games in seven days this week starting with Sunday’s defeat to Manchester City and with Brentford up on Saturday. Injuries in attack […]
Tsimikas On Captaining Liverpool: “We Made It Happen, Kid”
Following Wednesday’s 6-3 victory over LASK, Liverpool FC defender Kostas Tsimikas posted an emotional tribute after being given the chance to captain the team over last season’s Austrian double champions. Goalkeeper Alisson Becker would have taken on the captain’s armband had it been a Premier League match, but due to UEFA rules saying only the […]
Andoni Iraola Reacts to LASK Victory—and Centre Half Changes
On paper, Liverpool went into their Champions League match against LASK heavy favourites against the third-place side in the Austrian Bundesliga. Of course, how a match looks like it should play out on paper doesn’t always end up being how it plays out when things kick off. On this occasion, though, Andoni Iraola’s Reds energetically […]
Digging Deeper Into Liverpool’s 6-3 Victory Over LASK
Bradley Barcola joins the European hat trick club while Liverpool in general show off how dangerous even a thin squad’s attack can be. There was a lot of football to feast on at LASK, with some really superb goals on show for the Reds, who took 26 total shots in Austria. Though hamstrung by injuries, […]
LASK 3 – 6 Liverpool – Match Recap: Reds Rampant in Austria
LASK 3 – 6 LIVERPOOL LASK: Ljubičić 63’, Flecker 74’, 78’Liverpool: Araujo 22’, Barcola 24’, 37’, 66’, Frimpong 51’, Koumas 72’ Pre-Match The match at the weekend looms large over this one, and not just because of the scoreline. Ryan Gravenberch’s red card (now acknowledged as incorrect by the Premier League officiating body) means he’s […]
LASK vs. Liverpool: Champions League 2026-27 Live Coverage & How to Watch
LASK VS. LIVERPOOL | Wednesday, October 14th |Champions League | Raiffeisen Arena5:45PM BST/12:45PM EST Following Sunday’s disheartening experience of taking on recently convicted industrial-scale financial dopers Manchester City, Liverpool look to rebound in the Champions League as they head to Austria to take on LASK in a rare early European kickoff. Injury concerns will limit […]
Rumour Mongering: Bournemouth Now Open to Scott Sale
According to BBC Sport’s Nizaar Kinsella, who usually reports on Chelsea, Bournemouth are now open to offers for their midfielder, Alex Scott. The 23-year-old English midfielder was in demand over the summer, with multiple bids from Chelsea. Obviously, his links with our current head coach, Andoni Iraola, make him a popular rumoured target for Liverpool […]
Iraola Says Wirtz and Barcola “Are Players I Trust 100%”
When you spend £100M-plus on a player, it comes with expectations. For ability, for application, for impact. It’s only natural. It’s probably even fair. A football player who costs nine figures is going to be expected to deliver. Over the past two summer, Liverpool have bought three such players. None, it’s likely also fair to […]
LASK vs. Liverpool: Champions League 2026-27 Preview & Team News
LASK VS. LIVERPOOL | Wednesday, October 14th |Champions League | Raiffeisen Arena5:45PM BST/12:45PM EST Sunday’s experience watching Liverpool struggle against not just a Manchester City side recently found guilty of industrial-scale financial doping to the tune of £900M over almost a decade and the subsequent cover-up of said doping but also the officiating, which skewed […]
Liverpool Missing Key Stars for LASK Champions League Clash
On the weekend against convicted £900M financial dopers and sportswashers Manchester City, key injuries in midfield and attack rather limited the options head coach Andoni Iraola had at his disposal for Liverpool. When the Reds take on Austria’s LASK on Wednesday in the Champions League, the situation doesn’t appear to have changed. As on Sunday, […]
Andoni Iraola Faces Tough Liverpool Decisions
The past summer was another frustrating one where the players leaving the squad, and their quality, seemed greater than the sum of the new players who joined. It’s a situation that came across as if new head coach Iraola was being given a squad that was destined to make his first year at Liverpool even […]
Liverpool’s Andoni Iraola faces some tough decisions
The past summer was another frustrating one where the players leaving the squad, and their quality, seemed greater than the sum of the new players who joined. It’s a situation that came across as if new head coach Iraola was being given a squad that was destined to make his first year at Liverpool even […]
Kerkez Defiant Following Loss to Manchester City
Following Liverpool’s first defeat of the season — in notably challenging difficulties due to injuries to key starting players and a harsh sending off — Miloš Kerkez spoke to the press about how the Reds will respond. Kerkez did not shy away from disappointment: “The result is the most important in football, it’s definitely the […]
Van Dijk Sidesteps Questions About Man City, Who Have Been Found Guilty
Cheaters tend to win, particularly when the people doing the cheating are rich and powerful. And those watching on, the press and pundits and commentators, will do their best to paper over the ugliness of it all given their self-interest demands they never be too critical of the product. This is the reality of the […]
Manchester City Victory and Celebrations Make Farce of Premier League
Over the first hour of Sunday’s match, Liverpool had limited Manchester City to four shot attempts worth 0.15 expected goals. At that rate, it would have taken around 390 minutes for City to record a full expected goal worth of attempts. Then, Manchester-born referee Chris Kavanagh sent Ryan Gravenberch off via a second yellow. Both […]
Digging Deeper Into Liverpool’s 0-3 Defeat to Man City
We were prepared for Cody Gakpo and Alexander Isak missing from the team sheet but not Dominik Szoboszlai as well and eventually the bravery of the Reds was outdone by not making their chances count and finished off with a terrible second yellow seeing Gravenberch sent off. Winners and Losers For this writer I feel […]
Liverpool 0, Manchester City 3 – Match Recap: The Cheaters Are Still Cheating
LIVERPOOL 0 – 3 MANCHESTER CITY Manchester City: Haaland 64’, Doku 68’, Cherki 78’ Pre-Match The men’s international break is finally over and Anfield gets to host the most prolific cheaters of the football world, Manchester Cheaters, I mean City. The thing is, they were found guilty over the break of over 100 charges so […]
Liverpool vs. Manchester City: Premier League 2026-27 Live Coverage & How to Watch
LIVERPOOL VS. MANCHESTER CITY | Sunday, October 11th |Premier League | Anfield4:30PM BST/11:30AM EST It has been 84 years since Liverpool last played a football match. In that time, Manchester City were proven guilty of the financial crimes that we all knew they committed. The secret ingredient was, indeed, crime. And because football loves A […]
Everything’s the Best: Wirtz at False Nine?
It’s here: the end of the super-sized International Break and with it, the return of Premier League football. Which means, after approximately three-weeks of intense scrutiny given the announcement that the League found Manchester City guilty of 114 charges of misconduct, Liverpool will finally get the opportunity to take a crack at City. This is […]
Liverpool vs. Manchester City: Premier League 2026-27 Preview & Team News
LIVERPOOL VS. MANCHESTER CITY | Sunday, October 11th |Premier League | Anfield4:30PM BST/11:30AM EST Sometimes the football gods have a sense of humour — or maybe just a messy love for drama. After the earth shaking guilty verdict brought down against Manchester City that dominated headlines over the international break, it’s quite poetic that their […]
Manchester City’s Cheating Cost English Clubs Over £2 Billion
A couple of weeks ago, following the news that Manchester City had been guilty of exactly the kind of financial doping we could all see with our eyes, I speculated that they must’ve cost English clubs billions of pounds since the 2009/10 season. Turns out back-of-the envelop speculation was correct. I did the math(s). I […]
Dominik Szoboszlai Wins Goal of the Month for September
In news of very little surprise to anyone really, Dominik Szoboszlai’s gorgeous volley/half-volley has won the EA Sports Goal of the Month for the month of September. The absolutely stunning strike was the kind that you show replays of even to your least football-inclined mates while saying some variation of, “Get a load of that.” […]
Andoni Iraola “Looks Forward” to Games Like the City Fixture
Though Liverpool head coach Andoni Iraola decided not to comment on the Manchester City guilty verdict and its impact on his current club, citing his relative newness on Merseyside, he is excited by the fixture. “You are here to play these games. It will be a challenge, they are very good but so are we. […]
Andoni Iraola Dealing with Striker Depth Crisis Ahead of City Clash
Heading into the 2026-27 season with Hugo Ekitie out long-term with an injury and only Alexander Isak an established senior centre forward option was always going to mean an injury crisis in attack at some point for Liverpool and head coach Andoni Iraola. The question wasn’t ever if, but when. And when appears to be […]
Displaying entries 51-75
of the latest 1,250