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The Liverpool Offside 2025-26 Season Review

Liverpool’s 2025-26 season didn’t go as anyone would have hoped or planned, with the Reds collapsing in head coach Arne Slot’s second year in charge but the team lucking into quali...

Liverpool FC Women 2025-26 Season Review

Season Narrative The Liverpool FC Women wrapped up their season a couple of weeks ago, finishing 1th of the 12 WSL teams. It was a disappointing overall finish in the table, though...

The Liverpool Offside 2025-26 Season Review, Part 3: How to Fix It

Part 3: What Needs to Happen for Liverpool to be Better in 2026-27? With the club appearing fully committed to continuing with embattled head coach Arne Slot following a crushingly...

Exclusive: Alan Shearer on Andoni Iraola’s Liverpool Opportunity

When Liverpool decided to part ways with Arne Slot and bring in Andoni Iraola as their new head coach, a lot of talk focused on style, tactics, and approach. Liverpool, it’s probab...

The Liverpool Offside 2025-26 Season Review, Part 2: Placing Blame

Part 2: Who’s to Blame for Liverpool’s 2025-26 Going Wrong? When everything seems to have gone wrong, almost every player seems to have got worse, the press regresses and patterns...

The Liverpool Offside 2025-26 Season Review, Part 1: Everything Is The Worst

Part 1: The Worst Liverpool Season We Can Remember Nothing went the way anyone hoped or planned for Liverpool in 2025-26. That’s a statement that would be hard for anyone to argue...

Liverpool’s Injury Battles in the Modern Era: What They Reveal About Recovery in Elite Football

Liverpool’s recent seasons cannot be understood without looking beyond tactics and into something less visible but equally decisive: recovery. Injuries at Anfield have not just dis...

Wake Me Up When This Season Ends

Before yesterday’s match, I spent a couple hours in the sun with my family and in-laws, drinking wine in the sun, eating good food, and watching my daughters run around like only a...

What Will Andoni Iraola Do With Liverpool’s Fringe Players?

This post started as a lengthy reply to the many comments from yesterday’s article about Federico Chiesa possibly getting a fresh start under new Liverpool manager Andoni Iraola. S...

Everything’s the Best: It’s All Over But For the Crying

Liverpool’s title defense never really got off the ground and what’s instead become a disappointing season is finally – perhaps mercifully – coming to an end. 12 losses in the Prem...

Staff Takeaways: Manchester United 3-2 Liverpool

Here are our staff takeaways after a nice win over an old rival to secure European football next season. Vince Roseta: The formation was the key Manchester United didn’t try to out...

Man United 3 Liverpool 2: Match Review

New Liverpool FC Podcast, Video and Written content from The Anfield Wrap. The Best Liverpool Podcast. Neil Atkinson’s post-match review for The Anfield Wrap after Man United 3 Liv...

Andoni Iraola’s Liverpool blueprint: Pressing, direct attacks and a clearer identity

The swift dismissal of Arne Slot, just twelve months after he steered Liverpool to our twentieth top-flight league title, has completely transformed the Premier League managerial l...

Liverpool Season Review: Love, Loss And Starting Again

New Liverpool FC Podcast, Video and Written content from The Anfield Wrap. The Best Liverpool Podcast. The football never stopped for Liverpool after the Diogo Jota tragedy. A diff...

False dawns, exasperation & grief: 8 moments that defined Liverpool’s season

Andoni Iraola tactics: How Liverpool could play under new head coach

United will hit Liverpool where they are weakest with this clever tactical plan to destroy old rivals

United's counter-attacking under Michael Carrick's interim tenure has been breathtaking and will be the key to grabbing three points against Liverpool on Sunday. The post Tactical...

Liverpool 1-1 Chelsea: The Review

New Liverpool FC Podcast, Video and Written content from The Anfield Wrap. The Best Liverpool Podcast. The Anfield Wrap’s review podcast looking back at Liverpool’s dour draw again...

Manchester United 3-2 Liverpool: The Review

New Liverpool FC Podcast, Video and Written content from The Anfield Wrap. The Best Liverpool Podcast. The Anfield Wrap’s review podcast looking back at Liverpool’s defeat to Manch...

Digging Deeper Into Liverpool’s Derby Loss To Manchester United

Well if that match wasn’t an encapsulation of Liverpool’s season in a nutshell, I don’t know what is. The Reds were extremely unconvincing in the first half, and yet were still unl...

“Back to heavy metal!” – Expert explains Andoni Iraola’s tactics coming to Liverpool

On Leadership and Goodbyes

Liverpool had a bit of a seismic week: sacking Arne Slot last Saturday and this past Thursday, naming Adoni Iraola as his replacement. Life moves fast but you’d be forgiven if you’...

Exclusive: Treble Winning Star Markus Babbel On Liverpool’s Struggles

With Liverpool spending big last summer only to find their Premier League title defence over by October, the later stages of the 2025-26 campaign have turned into something of a po...

Everything’s the Best: But It’s Not

Liverpool are about one week away from the end of what has been, in the most generous of terms, a down year. Never mind that expectations and standards (more on that in a minute) a...