A 2-0 win at Anfield marked Liverpool’s first win of 2023.
Maybe the humiliations away to Brentford, Brighton, and Wolves were all just the clumsy, pre-coffee stupor of a side just waking from a deeper winter hibernation than usual?
Last night’s 2-0 win over Everton offered plenty of encouraging signs but it might yet prove another false dawn in a season not exactly short on them. Remember when Liverpool did this season what they couldn’t do last term and beat Manchester City in a league game? They then squeaked past West Ham and contrived to lose to Nottingham Forest and Leeds.All talk of a return to their old selves must also be caveated by Everton’s profound badness.
Having impressed when tucked inside and offered more protection at home to Arsenal, Coleman struggled when exposed to the pace of Liverpool’s left flank. It will offer Stephen Kenny food for thought, given first-choicee right wing-back Matt Doherty is likely to arrive into the next international window lacking match minutes, but here Coleman showed he is better suited at right centre-back than left hanging out at wing-back.
But most encouraging for Liverpool was the fact they seemed to have their intensity back. Key to it was the fact Jordan Henderson’s best performance since the World Cup and perhaps his best of the season, hailed afterwards by Klopp as a “one-man pressing machine.
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