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Al MicMac retweeted
Three goals and three points ✊ #CRYLIV
ALT Full-time graphic for Crystal Palace vs Liverpool in the Premier League. The final score is Crystal Palace 1-3 Liverpool.
Al MicMac retweeted
Our midfield two HAVE TO BE Trey Nyoni and Alexis Mac Allister going forward. 🏴🇦🇷 #LFC
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🚨🏴 FLORIAN WIRTZ DOUBLES THE LEAD FOR LIVERPOOL! BARCOLA ASSIST! xitter.gq/canadafreezy/status/21…
Al MicMac retweeted
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 ✅
Al MicMac retweeted
⚽ 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.
Al MicMac retweeted
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.
🚨 EXCL: Michael Olise’s representatives have been in contact behind the scenes with three clubs, namely Liverpool Football Club, Paris Saint-Germain and Real Madrid, while Manchester City also approached his camp several months ago only to be informed that the feeling was simply not mutual, with Olise showing little desire to enter that conversation and City consequently deciding to walk away, #LFC meanwhile are understood to have already completed much of the groundwork behind the scenes and there are figures within leading agencies who increasingly believe England’s grandest institution have quietly manoeuvred themselves into pole position should Michael ultimately decide that the moment has arrived to leave Munich.
The current tendency within the industry, and a reality Bayern Munich are slowly beginning to understand themselves, is that Michael Olise has little appetite to extend his stay in Bavaria beyond his existing contract as he increasingly feels that both his football and his own stature are beginning to outgrow the relatively small institution surrounding him, Germany has offered him the platform to become one of the finest footballers on the planet but not the emotion he ultimately craves, the Allianz Arena does not carry the electricity or sense of theatre he associates with football at its highest level while lifting another Bundesliga title before an ageing crowd gathered beneath a Munich balcony simply cannot recreate the feeling of conquering England beneath the red smoke of Liverpool, Paris erupting around the Champs-Élysées or Madrid surrendering itself to another European night.
Liverpool in particular carries a fascination to Michael since childhood difficult to manufacture anywhere else, the mystique of Anfield under the lights, the weight of generations inside those four stands, the anthem before a European night and the idea that one extraordinary footballer can become immortal in a city which remembers its heroes forever is viewed as an entirely different emotional proposition to the polished but comparatively sterile existence Michael has encountered in Munich, and for a player whose ambitions now stretch far beyond collecting domestic trophies in Germany there is a growing feeling that the defining chapters of his career must be written beneath brighter lights, in front of louder crowds and upon a considerably greater stage.
The Ballon d’Or inevitably sits somewhere within that thinking too, because Michael Olise and those around him increasingly understand that becoming the best footballer in the world is not only about producing the numbers but about creating moments the football world remembers, and there is a belief that the road towards that golden ball becomes shorter when those moments happen beneath the lights of Anfield, inside the Bernabéu or in the heart of Paris rather than within the comfortable boundaries of a small Bavarian institution whose greatest nights increasingly feel detached from the centre of the footballing world.
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🟥 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.
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⚽️ 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.
Al MicMac retweeted
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.
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WHAT A GOAL BY NYONI FOR LIVERPOOL 1-0!!!!! xitter.gq/TGZ0054/status/2118044…
Al MicMac retweeted
Jacquet is the signing of the Summer✅
The ease he deals with Tzolis here is a joke.
Tzolis basically gave up after this and we didn't see him for the rest of game😂
Al MicMac retweeted
Attwell is as corrupt as they come and I am pretty sure he is mates with Coote. The whole lot of them need looking at because Liverpool are on the wrong end every time of their atrocious decisions.
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The refereeing Liverpool have been subjected to, particularly at Anfield, is genuinely staggering. And I’m tired of legitimate criticism being dismissed as “sour grapes” before anyone even bothers to look at the evidence.
Paul Tomkins has researched this extensively, going back decades and some of his findings are genuinely ridiculous.
Consider these stats from his April 2026 study:
• ZERO opposition players have received a foul-related DOGSO red card at Anfield since 2009. That’s 325 home league games without an opponent being sent off for denying an obvious goalscoring opportunity through a foul.
• 3 Liverpool players received DOGSO red cards at Anfield in just 28 games under Slot. More than opposition players received at Anfield in the previous 25 years combined.
• Liverpool haven’t received a penalty in the opening 15 minutes of a league match with fans present since December 2012. Man City received 14 (!!) in that same period.
• Liverpool went 305 consecutive league matches between 2015 & 2023 without an opposition player receiving a 2nd yellow. That’s 8 years. Home or away.
• Since VAR was introduced, Liverpool have received just 2 VAR-awarded penalties for fouls. Man City received 11. Liverpool have also had 7 awarded against them.
• Liverpool received ZERO subjective VAR overturns in their favour before the 28th minute across approximately 260 matches. Man United received 7, Arsenal 6 & Man City 6.
• Salah averaged just 0.83 fouls won per 90 minutes, ranking outside the top 2,000 players in Tomkins’ study. Anyone who watched Salah knows how ridiculous that is given how frequently he’s grabbed, pulled & manhandled.
• Liverpool’s average foul free-kicks won dropped from around 12-13 per game before Klopp to just 9 after his arrival. Only Sheffield United recorded fewer in Tomkins’ comparison.
• Only 51% of Liverpool’s penalties were awarded at Anfield, compared to approximately 63% at home across the league. Some home advantage, eh?
And perhaps the most damning stat of all:
Of the 56 highly contentious league incidents Tomkins identified against Liverpool in the VAR era, 53 (95%) happened when the match was level or separated by just 1 goal.
These are game-changing decisions. Penalties, red cards & incidents that can genuinely decide matches, title races & entire seasons.
Think about Tarkowski’s challenge on Mac Allister, Ødegaard practically playing basketball at Anfield, Senesi’s handball or Salah getting manhandled every other week without a whistle. Oh, and literally disallowing a completely valid goal at Tottenham (no, YOU let it go).
At what point do we stop pretending this is normal?
And what frustrates me most is how quickly people dismiss the conversation as “sour grapes.” As if being a Liverpool supporter somehow invalidates the evidence. You can be biased & still be absolutely right.
I’m not suggesting these stats automatically prove some grand conspiracy, but the disparities are extraordinary. And when you actually watch the incidents themselves, it’s difficult to understand how some of these decisions are even possible.
We’re talking about penalties & red cards. Literally the most consequential decisions a referee can make. And somehow Liverpool consistently find themselves on the wrong end of them, even at Anfield - especially at Anfield - where we’re supposedly benefiting from this enormous home advantage.
Why shouldn’t that be questioned?
Credit to Paul Tomkins for actually doing the research & documenting this over the years.
Full analysis:
tomkinstimes.substack.com/p/…
But sure, “sour grapes.”
#LFC
Al MicMac retweeted
Everyone has correctly pointed out that Liverpool lost their control on the game as soon as Trey Nyoni came off. But why is this the case?
Well, Nyoni has a feel for rhythm and tempo that no other Liverpool midfielder possesses. He recognises moments to slow the game down, sitting outside the block shuttling possession vs playing a quick probing ball to get the team playing inside the block. Furthermore, Nyoni is the only Liverpool player that really brings any real value in buildup other than Gravenberch on the half turn. He is comfortable receiving the ball deep and moving the press left or right with sideways passes or even little movements to make space for his teammates.
