Liverpool win sets up emotional farewells but offers glimpse of bright future

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“The Champions League is so important to this football club and we've made a big step,” said Robertson.He represents an opposite to Isak and Wirtz, one of the great bargains in Liverpool’s modern history and the two most expensive arrivals. Yet the second felt more sentimental; there may be no more popular strike at Anfield this season for there have been few finer servants for Liverpool in the last decade than Robertson.Andy Robertson has been one of Liverpool’s finest servants (PA)Anfield erupted, the injured Alisson punched the air, after Liverpool went from one penalty area to the other, Ibrahima Konate, Wirtz and Curtis Jones combining for the Merseysider to release Robertson.

“Did anyone ever think we would say this eight or nine months ago, that Alexander Isak scored his first [league] goal for Liverpool at Anfield [in April]?” asked Slot. That is why it is important to have players who can score goals like this.” The opportunist in Isak controlled Alexis Mac Allister’s misdirected shot, turned and bobbled a shot past Dean Henderson.Alexander Isak could belatedly celebrate a league goal for Liverpool at Anfield (PA Wire)It was Isak’s first goal of 2026 and first since returning to fitness; if he has, given how little he moved initially.

Then he was more involved, to give Liverpool more optimism.But the main ovations at the end were for Robertson and for Freddie Woodman, whose first Premier League start for Liverpool came against his boyhood club, was eventful and eventually triumphant. “If he doesn’t and he has to be subbed then they could have definitely scored in our goal because then it would have been a serious injury.”Woodman carried on – meaning Slot did not need to turn to fourth-choice goalkeeper Armin Pesci – and Munoz’s strike almost came at a further cost to Liverpool when Wharton released Strand Larsen.