Post Match Report - Leicester v Liverpool

Best wishes to any man who while bettering himself, betters his environment.

Fixture: Leicester 0 - 1 Liverpool

Arena: King Power Stadium, Leicester, UK

Date: 4/20/25

Buzz: Plenty of time left, but only for a few minutes

MOTM: Trent Alexander-Arnold

Trent looks like he’s having fun, doesn’t he?

If he hasn’t made a decision yet, I wonder how today’s result will affect him. It could make him feel even more resolute about leaving, having contributed yet another amazing moment for us to sing, write, and eulogize about.

It could reignite the love affair and pull him back in.

If you think of almost any player who left Liverpool at their pomp, they left having contributed almost nothing in comparison to Trent Alexander-Arnold. They couldn’t do it. That’s the reason they left - Liverpool weren’t winning anything. Mascherano, Alonso, Sterling, Owen, McManaman, Suarez, Torres…. almost Gerrard.

When Torres left it broke my heart a little, but that was the last one. Since Fernando I learned to appreciate relationships with players in a different way. They went from being on my wall to being in my notebook.

I also lived my own life a little. I think that’s important. If you go for your own big successes, you can empathize with a player when they are in the position Trent has been in for much of the season. He has to think about himself, too. His energy, his ambitions, his family. Trent’s given us every trophy… some of them twice.

I always thought it limited Steven Gerrard to stay at Liverpool his whole career. I wasn’t born there, so I won’t co-opt the feeling that people from that region must have had about him staying. They can have that feeling. But maybe Stevie would’ve gotten off to a better start as a manager had he played / studied with a wider range of coaches. It helped Alonso. Maybe the world would have seen more of Steven Gerrard and therefore more of Liverpool had he played somewhere like Real Madrid that surrounded him with the best kind of teammates.

But Gerrard stayed forever, which means Trent has to, right?

Trent has to stay regardless of the type of player he is, or the type of body he was given. Trent has to stay even though staying in the Premier League could limit his career two, maybe three years. It could be more if some psycho playing for Everton wants to make a name for himself. Nothing’s guaranteed. But I bet the Trent Alexander-Arnold that goes to Spain endures fewer injuries and plays at his peak for longer.

And gets to hit Hollywood balls one after the other in the Hollywood of football, Madrid. All of them in their white kit like letters on the hill. When you have the skillset Trent has, unfortunately, Madrid is the place for it.

Liverpool, for so long, weren’t the place for anything. When all those players I listed above decided to leave, Liverpool had people like Roy Hodgson running things, owners like Hicks & Gillette, ambitions like squeaking into 4th. Signings like Charlie Adam and Stewart Downing. I don’t think people can understand why Trent would want to leave when the situation is so good here now, but I reckon Steven Gerrard might have left if he knew Liverpool would be more than fine if he tried something different.

If Trent does decide to leave, it isn’t about trophies. We’re winning them all here.

In the small, ginormous picture of Liverpool winning the league we saw a match against Leicester that the manager predicted before kickoff. “When players feel freedom they are dangerous, “ says Arne Slot, whose players felt freedom for about 10 minutes, until they had missed too many big chances. Liverpool created 9 big chances in the game and missed them all. The chaos began to envelop them.

Leicester offered nothing. Their fans seem to fill in slowly throughout the game, like they decided to watch the first half from somewhere safer. But Liverpool didn’t have the clinical edge until another real champion came on, who like Alexis Mac Allister undergoes no variance in these chaotic situations.

Getting the league over the line is the chaos, but Trent Alexander-Arnold comes on and strikes the ball like that, like he does when no one's around. All game, Alexis Mac Allister plays like it’s just him and his brothers. The famous Mac Allister’s of Football! Tsimikas was excellent as was Luis Diaz. Alisson was perfect. We have just enough winning energy in the tank, then Trent comes on and overflows it.

And now we can seal it with style at home, to Spurs, against the absolute perfect team for us to put on a show against. We’ve had the Virgil header. We’ve had the Trent moment. Now all we need is the icing on the cake. Let’s marmalize someone.

Best wishes to any man who while bettering himself, betters his environment.