Liverpool FC – Football Flame

9Apr

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Liverpool FC, PREMIER LEAGUE, Roberto Firmino

Liverpool grab late draw to hurt Arsenal’s title bid

Liverpool's Brazilian striker Roberto Firmino (R) celebrates scoring the team's second goal during the English Premier League football match between Liverpool and Arsenal at Anfield in Liverpool, north west England on April 9, 2023.Roberto Firmino’s late equaliser saw Arsenal’s lead at the top of the Premier League cut to six points after an incident-packed encounter with Liverpool at Anfield. The Gunners were in cruise control with a two-goal lead inside the first half-hour as they went in search for their first win at Liverpool since 2012, but were left bitterly disappointed as they paid the price for losing their discipline at times. Gabriel Martinelli pounced on sloppy Liverpool defending to put Arsenal ahead after eight minutes then Gabriel Jesus rose unmarked between Virgil van...

15Mar

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Champions League, Jurgen Klopp, Liverpool FC

Liverpool will try to beat Madrid with one per cent chance – Klopp

Liverpool FC Head Coach Jurgen Klopp talks during the Press Conference ahead of their UEFA Champions League round of 16 match against Real Madrid at Estadio Santiago Bernabeu on March 14, 2023 in Madrid, Spain. Jurgen Klopp said Tuesday his Liverpool team might only have a one per cent chance of beating Real Madrid to reach the Champions League quarter-finals, but they will try to use it. The coach had admitted, after his team’s 5-2 first leg defeat by the European champions at Anfield in February, that his side’s hopes of progress were extinguished. However Klopp said he had changed his mind a little, and even if nobody else believed in his side, they were looking forward to the clash in the Spanish capital, a repeat of last season’s final. “I said three weeks ago, Madrid with...

11Mar

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Bournemouth, Liverpool FC, Mohamed Salah, PREMIER LEAGUE

Salah misses penalty as Bournemouth beat Liverpool

Mohamed Salah of Liverpool reacts after missing a penalty kick during the Premier League match between AFC Bournemouth and Liverpool FC at Vitality Stadium on March 11, 2023 in Bournemouth, England. Mohamed Salah’s glaring penalty miss helped ensure Bournemouth climbed out of the relegation zone after an excellent win which damaged Liverpool’s chances of qualifying for next season’s Champions League. The Reds were brought back down to earth after last week’s 7-0 thrashing of Manchester United as the Cherries, who started the weekend bottom, did their survival chances a power of good. Liverpool were punished for poor defending when the unmarked Philip Billing struck from eight yards for his sixth Premier League goal of the season after fine work by Dango Ouattara. Virgil van Dijk had ...

10Mar

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Liverpool FC, PREMIER LEAGUE, Roberto Firmino

Klopp ‘bit surprised’ by Firmino’s choice to leave

Roberto Firmino of Liverpool during a training session at AXA Training Centre on March 09, 2023 in Kirkby, England.Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp says he was “surprised” by Roberto Firmino’s decision to leave Anfield at the end of the season. The Brazil forward will end an eight-year stay at Anfield when his contract expires in June. Firmino, 31, had been in talks over a new contract but has chosen to leave. “Surprised? Yes, a little bit – it could go two ways and it went one. And I respect that a lot,” Klopp said on Friday. “But it’s completely normal in this kind of long relationship that we have and Bobby has with the club.” Firmino scored seven goals in 13 Premier League games prior to the break for the World Cup but suffered a calf injury that kept him out for two months following the do...

5Mar

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Liverpool FC, Mohamed Salah, PREMIER LEAGUE

Liverpool smash seven past shambolic Man Utd

A salad banner is shown as Mohamed Salah of Liverpool celebrates after scoring a goal to make it 4-0 during the Premier League match between Liverpool FC and Manchester United at Anfield on March 5, 2023 in Liverpool, United Kingdom.Liverpool delivered the complete performance and Mohamed Salah became the club’s record Premier League goalscorer as Manchester United were overwhelmed at a joyous Anfield. United’s renaissance under manager Erik ten Hag already has the tangible reward of the Carabao Cup but Liverpool unleashed a brutal reality check on their progress with a severe thrashing. Liverpool took control of what had been a tight game, with Bruno Fernandes and Marcus Rashford missing presentable chances, when former Old Trafford target Cody Gakpo applied a smooth finish to Andy ...

19Feb

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Liverpool FC, Mohamed Salah, PREMIER LEAGUE

Clinical Liverpool punish 10-man Newcastle

Sven Botman of Newcastle United and Mohammed Salah of Liverpool battle for the ball during the Premier League match between Newcastle United and Liverpool FC at St. James Park on February, 2022 in Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom.Liverpool’s pursuit of a top-four Premier League finish gathered further momentum at the expense of Newcastle United’s similar ambitions with a crucial win at St James’ Park. Jurgen Klopp’s side, who secured their first league win of 2023 in the Merseyside derby against Everton on Monday, took control with two early goals from Darwin Nunez and Cody Gakpo. Newcastle’s miserable night worsened with a first-half red card for goalkeeper Nick Pope, ruling him out of next Sunday’s Carabao Cup final against Manchester United at Wembley. Nunez powered home the opener f...

10Feb

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Liverpool FC, Luis Diaz, PREMIER LEAGUE

Luis Diaz names Liverpool game he hopes to return for after injury update

Luis Diaz of Liverpool, Roberto Firmino of Liverpool before the Premier League match between Liverpool FC and Chelsea FC at Anfield on January 21, 2023 in Liverpool, England. Luis Diaz has publicised his hope of making a return from injury in time for Liverpool’s trip to Real Madrid next month. Diaz has not featured since sustaining a knee injury during the Reds’ 3-2 defeat to Arsenal on October 9. The Colombian was named in Liverpool’s mid-season training camp in Dubai during the World Cup hiatus but suffered a setback after returning to training and flew back to England to undergo surgery on the knee issue. Speaking earlier this month, Reds boss Jurgen Klopp confirmed Diaz had stepped up his rehabilitation and was now running on grass. However, he admitted it will “take a few w...

4Feb

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Jurgen Klopp, Liverpool FC, PREMIER LEAGUE, Wolverhampton

Twelve minutes of misery as Liverpool misfire again

Jurgen Klopp manager of Liverpool looks dejected alongside assistant Peter Krawietz during the Premier League match between Wolverhampton Wanderers and Liverpool FC at Molineux on February 4, 2023 in Wolverhampton, United Kingdom. As Wolverhampton Wanderers closed out the final few minutes of Saturday’s hugely impressive dismantling of Liverpool, their fans responded to a lengthy spell of passing with chants of “ole”. In recent seasons, that is something Reds fans were often able to inflict on their opponents – but those days feel like a long time ago as a season of disappointment continues. If a 3-0 loss at Brighton last month felt like a significant low, then this 3-0 defeat at Molineux was arguably worse. After all, the Seagulls are chasing a top-seven finish while Wolves started S...

21Jan

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CHELSEA FC, Liverpool FC, Mykhailo Mudryk, PREMIER LEAGUE

Liverpool and Chelsea struggle to goalless draw

Mykhailo Mudryk of Chelsea slides fro the ball from James Milner of Liverpool during the Premier League match between Liverpool FC and Chelsea FC at Anfield on January 21, 2023 in Liverpool, England.Liverpool and Chelsea laid their respective Premier League struggles bare for all to see in a bitterly disappointing stalemate at Anfield.The two giants, who have been in constant pursuit of major prizes in recent seasons, are currently locked well outside the top four – and how it showed in a dismal game almost devoid of entertainment and quality.Chelsea had an early Kai Havertz strike ruled out for offside by VAR and there was also a lively debut as a second-half substitute for £89m new boy Mykhailo Mudryk, while Liverpool keeper Alisson saved well from another new Chelsea signing, defender B...

14Jan

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Brighton, Danny Welbeck, Liverpool FC

Dominant Brighton send Liverpool to heavy defeat

Danny Welbeck of Brighton & Hove Albion scores the team's third goal during the Premier League match between Brighton & Hove Albion and Liverpool FC at American Express Community Stadium on January 14, 2023 in Brighton, England. March converted Kaoru Mitoma’s low cross to give the home side a deserved lead, after the returning Alexis Mac Allister had intercepted Joel Matip’s loose pass. The winger then doubled the hosts’ advantage with a fabulous left-footed strike from Evan Ferguson’s through-ball. Second-half substitute Welbeck capped a magnificent Brighton display with a superb finish past Alisson after flicking the ball over Joe Gomez. Roberto de Zerbi’s team dominated the first half but failed to convert their pressure into goals, Trent Alexander-Arnold blocking March’s e...

29Dec

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Liverpool FC, Mohamed Salah, PREMIER LEAGUE

Mohamed Salah out to break Robbie Fowler goalscoring record against Leicester

Mohamed Salah of Liverpool celebrates after scoring their side's first goal during the Premier League match between Aston Villa and Liverpool FC at Villa Park on December 26, 2022 in Birmingham, England. Mohamed Salah could break Robbie Fowler’s record for the most left-footed goals in Premier League history when Liverpool face Leicester City on Friday evening. The man affectionately referred to as ‘God’ by supporters of the red side of Merseyside scored 105 goals with his left foot in his multiple stints in the Premier League. The Egyptian has scored four goals in the last four games, and is sat on 104 left-footed goals, just one behind the former England international. One goal would equal the record, while two would leave Salah as the new record-holder to add to the multiple compe...

6Nov

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Liverpool FC, Mohamed Salah, PREMIER LEAGUE

Liverpool end two-game losing streak as Mohamed Salah’s double downs Tottenham

Mohamed Salah of Liverpool runs in to score after an error from Eric Dier of Tottenham Hotspur during the Premier League match between Tottenham Hotspur and Liverpool FC at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on November 6, 2022 in London, United Kingdom.Liverpool survived a second half onslaught from Tottenham to win 2-1 and end their two-game losing streak in the Premier League. Mohamed Salah’s brilliant first half double against Spurs proved to be the difference as the Reds leapfrogged above Fulham into eighth spot. Salah broke the deadlock in the 11th minute with a fiercely struck volley into the bottom corner after being picked out by Darwin Nunez. And he then doubled the visitors’ lead just before the break as he capitalised on Eric Dier’s poor header where he chipped the onrushing Hugo Lloris...

2Nov

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Champions League, Liverpool FC, Mohamed Salah

Champions League: Liverpool end Napoli’s unbeaten run

Darwin Nunez of Liverpool celebrates scoring the second goal with team mate Mohamed Salah during the UEFA Champions League group A match between Liverpool FC and SSC Napoli at Anfield on November 1, 2022 in Liverpool, United Kingdom.Liverpool ended Napoli’s 21-game unbeaten run but a 2-0 win on Tuesday was not enough to dislodge the Italians from the top spot in the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) Champions League Group A. Both sides were already guaranteed their places in the last 16, but Jurgen Klopp’s men again shrugged off their Premier League problems at Anfield stadium. Mohamed Salah forced the ball over the line after Alex Meret just kept out Darwin Nunez’s header five minutes from time. Nunez then added a second with the last kick of the game to secure a fifth conse...