Nazira Yusuf is a freelance football journalist covering Liverpool FC, Crystal Palace FC, Leeds United and Nottingham Forest. Also covering women’s football. Naz produces breaking news, match reports, interviews while also developing expertise in video journalism, social media and digital publishing.
Liverpool’s 2-1 defeat to Manchester City on February 8 was already a bitter pill for Arne Slot to swallow, but the release of the match officials mic’d up audio has turned a standard loss into a full-blown officiating scandal. At Anfield it will be remembered not for the football, but for a chaotic sequence of officiating that […]
Graham Potter is sweating on the fitness of Liverpool striker Alexander Isak as he prepares for a high-stakes baptism of fire with the Swedish national team. The former Chelsea manager, recently installed as the successor to Jon Dahl Tomasson, faces a nightmare scenario ahead of next month’s crucial World Cup play-offs with his talismanic striker […]
Former Liverpool midfielder James Milner has etched his name even deeper into English football history after breaking the record for the most appearances in the Premier League, reaching 654 games in Brighton Hove Albion’s 2-0 victory over Brentford. There was never any doubt that James Milner would eventually stand alone at the top of the […]
Liverpool captain Virgil van Dijk offers a brutally honest assessment of the 1-0 win at Nottingham Forest, detailing the “elite mentality” required to overcome VAR drama and how a second-half tactical shift spared the Reds blushes at the City Ground. Liverpool’s relentless pursuit of perfection under Arne Slot looked to have hit a major speed […]
Gary Lineker explains why Liverpool are “definitely better” now than in the first half of the season as he predicts they will beat Chelsea to a 2026 Champions League spot. Liverpool’s Champions League ambitions have received a massive boost following a dramatic, last-gasp 1-0 victory over Nottingham Forest. Despite a performance that manager Arne Slot […]
The staggering Curtis Jones statistic that proves the Sky Sports pundit was right all along. Is the midfielder’s ‘extra touch’ now a liability for Arne Slot? Alexis Mac Allister may have snatched the headlines with a late rescue act at the City Ground, but Liverpool’s narrow escape against Nottingham Forest couldn’t mask a glaring tactical […]
Liverpool head coach Arne Slot has provided crucial injury update on Florian Wirtz after Nottingham Forest withdrawal For 96 minutes at the City Ground, Liverpool looked like a team that had lost its compass, wandering through a performance that Arne Slot would later describe as the “worst” of his tenure to date. But then, the […]
Rio Ferdinand and Jamie Carragher are in agreement: Rio Ngumoha is the spark Liverpool have been missing. After his game-changing cameo in the 1-0 win over Nottingham Forest, It wasn’t pretty, and it certainly wasn’t flowing, but Liverpool’s 1-0 victory over Nottingham Forest on Sunday proved that grit often trumps glamour. While the headlines will […]
Alexis Mac Allister admits Liverpool were “not at their best” in a gritty 1-0 win over Nottingham Forest on Sunday afternoon. For Alexis Mac Allister, the word of the afternoon was “struggle.” It defined the VAR-induced anxiety of a disallowed goal, the physical grind of a leggy Liverpool midfield, and, most pointedly, the collective dip in a […]
The pre-match optimism that followed the Liverpool team bus down to the East Midlands was dealt a significant blow just minutes before kick-off at The City Ground. Liverpool’s afternoon at the City Ground took a turn for the disastrous before a ball was even kicked. Florian Wirtz, the summer signing who has finally begun to find […]
Jeremie Frimpong and Wataru Endo injury latest as Arne Slot faces Nottingham Forest dilemma Arne Slot faces a significant test of his squad’s resolve as he prepares his Liverpool side for a testing trip to the City Ground this weekend. The Reds head into Sunday’s clash with Nottingham Forest hampered by a mounting injury list […]
From title glory to a goal-scoring nightmare: How Arne Slot’s tactical ‘blueprint’ has been torn up by the Premier League Liverpool fans weren’t confident in the club’s future when Jurgen Klopp announced that he would be leaving the club at the end of the 2023/24 season. The German won the EFL Cup as a parting […]
