Al MicMac

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[Al MicMac @AlexMicMac]

@brucelee Happy Birthday, Dragon.
Your art outlived your era — your impact outlives all of us.
#BruceLee 🙏🏼🐉

[James Pearce @JamesPearceLFC]

'The Premier League’s five-person KMI Panel ruled in a 4:1 vote that the decision not to punish Timber was the incorrect one.'
So poor from both Madley and Attwell on the day and it cost Liverpool.

https://t.co/0QohQ5bLUA

[indykaila News @indykaila]

Exclusive 💣

Liverpool have agreed personal terms with Lamine Camara.

Liverpool are trying to negotiate a deal for around £58m. Talks ongoing with Monaco. #LFC

[Liverpool FC @LFC]

Three goals and three points ✊ #CRYLIV

[centrekop. @centrekop]

WHAT A PERFORMANCE BY ALISSON BECKER TODAY. 🔥👏

[James Wathland @JamesWathland]

Our midfield two HAVE TO BE Trey Nyoni and Alexis Mac Allister going forward. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇦🇷 #LFC

[FlorianFlicks @FlorianFocus]

Iraola was so happy for Wirtz🥹

[Tekkers Foot @tekkersfoot]

🚨🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 FLORIAN WIRTZ DOUBLES THE LEAD FOR LIVERPOOL! BARCOLA ASSIST! https://t.co/E1hnKaP2pB

[Sky Sports Premier League @SkySportsPL]

Bradley Barcola and Florian Wirtz combine to put Liverpool 2-0 up! 🔴

[John O Sullivan @Corballyred]

Where would we be without Alexis MacAllister this season???

That's 7 goal contributions now this season.

He is carrying us at times.

Give him the contract he deserves @LFC ✅

[Eddie Gibbs @eddiegibbs]

⚽ Victory Is Essential, But Can the Reds Be Trusted?

Crystal Palace vs #LFC | #PremierLeague Preview

Liverpool will arrive at Selhurst Park this afternoon carrying the bruises of two defeats and the uncomfortable knowledge that another would turn an international break into a fortnight of recrimination.

There's little excuse for failure here.

Crystal Palace are a club in considerable distress. Their manager is under pressure, confidence is fragile, and the absences of Sarr and Mateta deprive them of their most obvious attacking threats.

Liverpool possess the superior footballers, greater resources and sufficient quality to impose themselves. What remains uncertain is whether they possess the concentration to make those advantages count.

The collapse in Istanbul was particularly troubling. Twice Liverpool led, twice they surrendered their advantage, and eventually they paid for defending that belonged in a school playground.

I expect Andoni Iraola to restore his preferred defensive personnel and make one contentious midfield decision.

Personally, I would start Trey Nyoni alongside Alexis Mac Allister. His intelligence, energy and composure have earned that opportunity. Yet I suspect Dominik Szoboszlai will return, partly because Nyoni has accumulated considerable minutes, partly because managing prominent personalities is an unavoidable responsibility of modern management.

Cody Gakpo likely also returns on the right ahead of Munoz and Ngumoha, with Bradley Barcola restored to his natural left flank position.

A convincing victory would restore some much-needed calm. Liverpool have been dependable travellers in the league, and Palace's defensive frailties offer ample encouragement.

Still, trusting this Liverpool side to keep a clean sheet requires a generosity of faith their recent defending scarcely deserves.

🔺 Predicted Liverpool XI:

Alisson; Araujo, Jacquet, Van Dijk, Kerkez; Szoboszlai, Mac Allister; Gakpo, Wirtz, Barcola; Isak

🔺 Score prediction:

Crystal Palace 1-2 Liverpool.

Three points, please. And preferably without the customary self-inflicted drama.

[Space | ™ @ITKSpace]

My dear, ever-loyal audience,

Soon, another report shall see the light of day, and with it, the truth behind words once questioned.

For time has always been my greatest ally, and soon, it shall speak for itself.

[Al MicMac @AlexMicMac]

@Corballyred Szobo was utterly USELESS in the 10, offers NOTHING there…. too slow thinking, can’t create space for a shot, can’t cut inside or outside and can’t pass in tight spaces.

Wirtz wipes the floor with him in that position.

[Eddie Gibbs @eddiegibbs]

🟥 Liverpool's Midfield: Expensive Contracts, Uncomfortable Decisions

I have maintained since Andoni Iraola's appointment that Liverpool needed a more defensively accomplished midfielder, a box-to-box with defensive nous more so than a holding destroyer. Lamine Camara was my preferred signing last summer, and the passing months have only strengthened that conviction.

I said before a ball was kicked that a double pivot of Ryan Gravenberch and Dominik Szoboszlai would struggle. Their individual qualities are considerable, but football has always demanded something more fundamental than assembling expensive talent. It demands balance, discipline and an understanding of the collective.

Neither has consistently provided what Iraola requires.

There is an uncomfortable irony in watching 19-year-old Trey Nyoni, earning a fraction of their salaries, emerge as arguably Liverpool's most indispensable midfield presence. His intelligence in possession, willingness to receive under pressure and instinct for controlling tempo have brought a composure that money has conspicuously failed to purchase.

Alongside him, Alexis Mac Allister has rediscovered the authority many feared had deserted him. Florian Wirtz, meanwhile, increasingly looks the natural choice ahead of them.

That, for me, is Liverpool's strongest midfield.

The substantial contracts awarded to Gravenberch and Szoboszlai now present a difficult question. Where do they fit? Neither deserves to be casually discarded, but sentiment and salary cannot become substitutes for selection on merit.

With Wataru Endo seemingly forgotten and James McConnell struggling for opportunities, the midfield picture remains troublingly confused.

Iraola has inherited some fine footballers. He must now fashion a functioning midfield from them.

And Liverpool's hierarchy must recognise that the next midfield signing requires considerably more thought about suitability than reputation.

Because until Liverpool control the middle of the pitch, they will continue paying for it everywhere else.

[Al MicMac @AlexMicMac]

@eddiegibbs I say just get Lewis Hall for £70m and be done with it, we need some homegrown players in the First XI anyway. Job done ✔️

[Eddie Gibbs @eddiegibbs]

⚽️ Liverpool’s Turkish Humiliation Exposes Some Uncomfortable Truths

Feberbache 3-2 #LFC

There are defeats that can be explained away by misfortune, and there are performances so wretched that excuses become an insult to the intelligence. Liverpool’s 3-2 capitulation against Fenerbahçe belongs emphatically in the latter category.

This was embarrassing. A team assembled at enormous expense, blessed with international talent, somehow contrived to make struggling opposition look formidable.

Liverpool enjoyed 68% possession, attempted 22 shots and won 12 corners. Impressive figures for anyone fortunate enough to have missed the match. Those watching witnessed an alarming poverty of imagination, laborious possession and a disturbing inability to manufacture genuine danger.

At the back, the defending bordered on the farcical. Twice Liverpool led, twice they surrendered their advantage within four minutes. Jacquet’s deflection, Alisson’s indecision and the collective failure to defend elementary crosses exposed a fragility that should trouble Andoni Iraola profoundly.

His selection deserves scrutiny. Deploying Bradley Barcola through the middle was a failed experiment, and the extent of the rotation in such an unforgiving environment was questionable. Yet experienced professionals must shoulder responsibility for defending with such astonishing carelessness.

The evening’s few redeeming features came from youth. Trey Nyoni scored his first senior goal and played with admirable conviction. Rio Ngumoha carried an attacking threat that his more celebrated colleagues seemed incapable of producing.

There’s something deeply uncomfortable about teenagers providing the courage and ingenuity that established internationals cannot summon.

Two consecutive defeats now, and increasingly troubling evidence of deficiencies at both ends of the pitch.

Iraola has considerable work ahead of him. Liverpool’s supporters have every right to demand better.

Because performances of this poverty are simply unacceptable.

[Football on TNT Sports @footballontnt]

Trey Nyoni becomes Liverpool's second-youngest Champions League goalscorer (19 years and 127 days old), with his first goal for the club 🔴

Only Trent Alexander-Arnold is above the midfielder.

[Adika @Adikastakes]

We have been comfortably the better team and we deserve this goal. Thank
You for proving us right Trey Nyoni.

[centrekop. @centrekop]

WHAT A GOAL BY NYONI FOR LIVERPOOL 1-0!!!!! https://t.co/AW8iVSxMb4

[Tekkers Foot @tekkersfoot]

🚨🚨 NYONI OPENS THE SCORING FOR LIVERPOOL!