Is there a better manager in men’s football right now than Liverpool’s lovable leader and Champions League winner? Everyone wants to know why Jurgen Klopp is so good, but a recent article shown light on the German’s secret to success.
The UEFA Super Cup is a match of limited importance, much like the Community Shield. But Americans had one question on their minds ahead of this year’s edition between Chelsea and Liverpool: Is Christian Pulisic starting?
You betcha.
This past weekend, a photo emerged on Twitter of a bloodied young Liverpool supporter standing next to star attacker Mohamed Salah. That child is 11-year-old Reds supporter Louis Fowler, who’d spotted Salah leaving Liverpool’s Melwood training ground in his car and attempted to keep pace with the vehicle while waving at the Egyptian.
Unfortunately for Louis, in his heightened state of distraction he ran directly into a lamp post, knocking himself out and breaking his nose in the process.
Liverpool opened the Premier League season as we all expected: a runaway 4-1 rout of newly promoted Norwich City at Anfield.
The Champions League winners had little trouble with the Championship winners, with the lone downside being losing the clean sheet and goalkeeper Alisson to injury.
But one thing really stood out and bothered me deeply on Friday: those hideous Liverpool socks.
Manchester United and Liverpool have dominated English football for decades. Liverpool was the dominant team for years, only for Sir Alex Ferguson to lead the charge to overtake the Reds as the winningest club in England.
The rivalry runs deep between the country’s two most successful clubs; the North West Derby dwarfs all other derbies in the soccer-mad nation.
The 2019-20 Premier League season kicks off on Friday, Aug. 9, with a match between last season’s runner-up Liverpool and newly promoted Norwich City at Anfield. The title fight between Liverpool and Manchester City will again be epic, while the rest of the ‘Big Six’ attempts to close the gap. Here are our Premier League predictions 19/20, including reasons why each club could win it all or get relegated to the Championship.
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Here are some of the most famous celebrity soccer fans of these 18 coveted European clubs:
With the EPL season beginning on Friday and the NFL’s first full preseason week starting Thursday, it seemed like the perfect time to try to find an NFL counterpart to every EPL team.
Here is what we came up with:
The Premier League is almost 15 years late to the YouTube party, but the world’s most-watched domestic competition is making up for lost time by starting things off with some damn fine content over on its newly christened YouTube channel.
Who else is counting down the days until the Premier League begins? I know I am. With a wealth of talent in the league, it’s hard to know which Premier League players to focus on.
Some players on this list of those to watch are newcomers to the league, others are looking to follow up breakout seasons. Here are the Premier League players you should watch this season.
Arsenal: Nicolas Pepe