Liverpool served up yet another pitiful performance at Anfield against arguably the biggest strugglers in the Premier League, as Tottenham salvaged an easy point and boos rang out.
Liverpool 1-1 Tottenham
Premier League (30) | Anfield
March 15, 2026
Goals: Szoboszlai 19′; Richarlison 90′
Liverpool are still sleepwalking
A draw which feels worse than a defeat, Mo Salah leaving the pitch raging and most of Liverpool’s players not even making eye contact with each other.
This was a miserable afternoon which felt inevitable from the first whistle.
Tottenham are the Premier League‘s most in-crisis team right now, so of course they were going to leave Anfield with something.
Boos ringing out at full-time was both uncharacteristic and a sign of end-times.
There was talk of interim boss Igor Tudor getting sacked, after losing all of his four games. Yet a point was picked up at Anfield and, to be honest, Spurs sneaking a late winner would not have surprised anyone.
Liverpool scored early on but never once took grip of the match.
It’s a copy-and-paste performance every single week – Liverpool don’t know how to assert themselves anymore and don’t really look interested enough to try.
Another weekend of sleep-walking and more points dropped.
Tickets not selling rings loudest alarm bells yet
Just 24 hours before kickoff we saw something pretty mind-blowing: tickets were still available on the club’s website.
Returned tickets were available to purchase for members for around £55, something that is simply unheard of for Liverpool in recent times.
It’s a damning indictment of where things are at; Liverpool aren’t enjoyable to watch and now it’s being represented in black-and-white.
Not turning out for your team is never a good look, but football is a very expensive passion and folk are now deciding that it isn’t worth the time and money to turn up and see the same lacklustre performance once more.
Of course, Liverpool ended up proving these people right with this painfully predictable draw.
The big names just aren’t stepping up
Collective performances haven’t been great for the entire season. There are multiple explanations, all of which have been widely explored: a new-look squad, relentless injuries, the irreplaceable loss of a team-mate.
The campaign has never felt like one which would get going, but if we’re looking purely at the individuals, there is no question that the big names aren’t stepping up.
Tottenham‘s goal came from one big lumped upfield ball, which Andy Robertson did not challenge for and Virgil van Dijk ghosted past the flick-on.
Joe Gomez was out of place for movement of Richarlison, who simply had to stub the ball along the ground to gain Spurs a draw.
A really pathetic story all round, with each of Liverpool’s most experienced figures playing a starring role.
Liverpool have a future-proof weapon in Szoboszlai’s free-kicks
There was some truly sub-standard goalkeeping from Guglielmo Vicario which allowed Dominik Szoboszlai‘s free-kick to hit the back of the Kop end goal, but regardless it was another dead-ball finish from the Hungarian.
He has now scored four direct free-kicks in the league this season, the most ever by a Liverpool player in a season – only David Beckham in 2000/01 and Laurent Robert in 2001/02 have scored more, with five each.
This is a weapon now and Liverpool need to use it going forward, no rotating free-kick takers.
The more Szoboszlai scores, the more his reputation as a specialist grows and the more opposition goalkeepers begin to doubt themselves.
Wirtz and Ngumoha can be the perfect catalyst for each other
A rare shining light on a grey afternoon, Rio Ngumoha once again looked lightning.
As per Opta, this match saw him become the youngest player on record (from 2006/07) to complete as many as seven dribbles in a single Premier League game.
Ngumoha was constantly direct and desperate to get on the ball, but his interlinking play with Florian Wirtz was particularly impressive.
A moment in the second half saw the teenager search for a non-existent through-ball for Wirtz, before rolling his marker and quite literally opening a channel from nowhere.
Quick-thinking football IQs will always gravitate towards similar thinkers, and these two could be magic together dovetailing on the left and in the central areas.