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The one-off encounter is contested between the winners of the Premier League and FA Cup. While Manchester City completed a clean sweep of domestic honors in the English top-flight last season, Liverpool entered the competition by virtue of the second-placed finish in the Premier League. Raheem Sterling opened the scoring as a momentary lapse in concentration from the Liverpool back-line allowed the Englishman a shot at goal from inside the area....

Ayre joined the five-times European champions as commercial director in 2007 and worked his way through a series of promotions before he became CEO in 2013. Last year, Ayre announced that he was stepping down at the end of this season. “There is no greater professional satisfaction for me than to leave Liverpool Football Club in much improved health throughout than when I joined the club in 2007,” life-long Liverpool fan Ayre said in a club statement....

The Reds have lost three matches during the winless streak and drawn four – including a 2-2 result against Sevilla to open group play on September 13. Liverpool’s last Champions League win came back in September 2014 with a 2-1 win against Ludogorets. It has been even longer since the club last kept a clean sheet in Champions League play, with Tuesday’s draw the ninth consecutive match the Reds have conceded in Europe’s top club competition....

But ever since the appointment of Jurgen Klopp, the narrative has changed and there is a high spirit among the Kop faithful that this could be the year. Finally, the time has come, it could really be their year! Slowly and in a very structured manner, the team has evolved to a giant in world football. So what are the changes that the “Normal One” as described by Klopp himself has done to change the team to take a four-point lead provisionally in the league over defending champions, Manchester City....

The Reds have already released their new home shirt and wore it in the 3-0 victory over Middlesbrough that booked their place in next season’s Champions League play-off round. The latest Liverpool transfer rumours It features special embroidery for their 125th season as well as to pay tribute to the victims of the Hillsborough disaster, with the ‘96’ emblem encased by the eternal flames. The away and third jerseys are likely to follow soon and Goal will be providing all the information you need to know as well as images of the new kits as they are released....

His Liverpool team had headed to face their arch-rivals at Old Trafford with a whopping 10 absentees and showed all the frailty an injury crisis of such scale tends to create in suffering a 2-1 defeat. But then Klopp arguably invited post-match censure by hinting that simple misfortune was behind a third disappointing result of the new season, using one post-match interview to describe his side’s ongoing fitness problems as “insane”....

The Reds are reportedly ready to move on from the former Arsenal man this summer with West Ham United and Manchester United interested in his signature. Oxlade-Chamberlain joined the Anfield outfit in 2017 from Arsenal for £35m. He enjoyed a good debut term but suffered an unfortunate injury in the semifinals of the UEFA Champions League that season. It proved to be a major blow to his promising Liverpool career....

Balotelli’s bizarre £1m Liverpool bonus The visitors were 2-0 up at half-time at the Vitality Stadium through goals from Sadio Mane and Divock Origi, and Emre Can appeared to make the win safe in the second period when he struck a fine third shortly after Callum Wilson’s penalty. But Bournemouth produced a stunning comeback, with Ryan Fraser and Steve Cook scoring twice in two minutes before Nathan Ake bundled home the winner in the third minute of injury time after Loris Karius had fumbled the ball....

The centre-back turned out 80 times for the St Mary’s side before his £75 million transfer to the Reds last month. Fellow former Saint Dejan Lovren switches to the bench in one of three changes from Jurgen Klopp. Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Gini Wijnaldum, both substitutes in last week’s 2-2 draw at Tottenham Hotspur, replace Jordan Henderson and James Milner in midfield. The captain’s workload is being managed, having recently returned from a month out with an injury, while the vice-skipper is named in reserve....

The Reds last suffered defeat on January 3, 2019, in a 2-1 loss at Manchester City, a reverse that ultimately cost them the Premier League title. However, their response ever since has been nothing short of remarkable, with Thursday’s victory ensuring they will pass the one-year anniversary of that defeat without having been beaten again. The result was never really in doubt against the Blades, as Liverpool opened the scoring after just four minutes through Mohamed Salah and dominated thereafter....

Liverpool returned to winning ways in the Premier League with a 3-0 win over Brentford this past Sunday. They will now hope to beat Arsenal in their next game in the second leg of the Carabao Cup semi-final on Thursday. On that note, here’s a look at the key transfer stories revolving around the Merseyside club as of January 18, 2022. Liverpool will look to sign a forward over the summer The Redsl will not sign a forward in the January transfer window unless there is a late change of heart, as per The Athletic....

Game-week three will see the recent Super Cup champions Liverpool welcome Unai Emery’s men to their fortress, Anfield. Below, we take a look at the five factors that should influence the match between Liverpool and Arsenal. #1. Fresh legs Both teams have a six-day rest period before the match on Saturday. However, the Reds might feel the need for this rest more than their Saturday’s opponents. Jürgen Klopp’s boys have had a long stretch of games in August....

Moreover, it is the fierce rivalry between the two biggest English clubs which would capture the imagination of the football lovers across the world. Liverpool are unbeaten in their fortress for the last 50 matches, but a young United side could upset the applecart with an inspired display. Here, we take a look at the three crucial factors which might determine the fate of Sunday’s match. #1 The work rate of the Liverpool forwards Liverpool’s front three are known for their exceptional work-rate....

The Reds have won just six of their 14 games so far, drawing and losing four apiece in their eight other fixtures. They did end the pre-World Cup schedule on a high note, beating Spurs and Southampton back-to-back in their final two fixtures to rise from mid-table to a more commendable sixth place. That slight surge of form in late November has done little to mask Liverpool’s deficiencies in 2022/23 though, and it will count for little in terms of momentum too, with Liverpool not playing another Premier League game until Boxing Day....

Despite a few modern conveniences, the setup couldn’t be further from the glitz and superconsumerism found in Dubai, just over an hour’s flight north. But that is clearly the point. The oil-rich sultanate has set out to rival its neighbor by offering almost the exact opposite sort of attractions. Where the United Arab Emirates has slick skyscrapers and über-modern malls, in Oman’s capital, Muscat, and its port town Matrah, the whitewashed houses and labyrinthine souks—a distinct hybrid of European and Islamic architecture—speak of the country’s previous occupation by both the Portuguese and the Persians....

In the physical world we vainly scrounge for glory. Bin Laden still taunts us, the bus doors close before we reach them and leave us standing in the rain. But in the fantasy realm of Azeroth, the virtual geography of World of Warcraft, the physical pain comes only from hitting a keyboard too hard, camaraderie is the norm and heroism is never far away. In simple terms, Warcraft is the most advanced and popular entry in a genre called Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games, or MMO....

Though she and Trump are in the same political party, the Wyoming lawmaker has become a staunch critic of the former president for his alleged role in the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot and has pushed back against unproven claims of fraud in the 2020 election. Cheney, as the vice chair, is one of just two Republicans—the other is Representative Adam Kinzinger of Illinois—on the House Select Committee investigating the riot....

Cheney, one of Trump’s strongest conservative critics, hinted at the possibility that she could launch a presidential bid after she lost her GOP primary to Trump-backed challenger, attorney Harriet Hageman, on Tuesday. Meanwhile, the ex-president continues to hint at another White House bid in 2024, although he has not officially confirmed his intentions. Even if Cheney is clearly on the outs with Republicans, and enjoys praise from Democrats, many in the Democratic Party are less than enthusiastic over the prospect that the staunch conservative could seek the presidency....

Llorente quit on Friday over the new patrons of Valencia Foundation, which is the club’s maximum shareholder, Xinhua reports. Llorente had replaced former club president, Francisco Soler, and his time in charge has been a constant battle in order to reduce the massive debts which have handicapped the club and which mean that no work has been carried out on the club’s new ground in around three years, leaving it an unfinished shell towards the outskirts of the city....