It feels like things are starting to, slowly, come together for Liverpool in the Premier League. Their goalless draw on the road against Crystal Palace made it three consecutive Premier League clean sheets for Jurgen Klopp’s side, the first time they have achieved the feat this season. More impressively, they have limited the opposition to just five shots on target in these three games and four of those came in the 2-0 victory against Newcastle United.

Undoubtedly shellshocked following their 5-2 capitulation against Real Madrid in the Champions League, they did create several opportunities to pick up the victory at Selhurst Park to the point they twice rattled the crossbar. For Jurgen Klopp and his players, the stalemate against Crystal Palace represented the classic one step to the side, after victories over Everton and Newcastle had provided two recent steps forward.

Palace also failed to register a shot on target in this game with the Reds remaining the only side yet to concede a goal from outside the box in the league this season.

The trouble is they need to get back to scoring on a more consistent basis, having failed to net in four of their last six league games – a run that began with three non-scoring performances despite attempting 43 shots.

The Reds are just nine points off the top four and a potential return to the UEFA Champions League. And that 3-0 reversal earlier in the season is the only time Jurgen Klopp has dropped points against Wolves in the competition. Adding to that tally here will only boost their hopes of a successive run-in.

On the other hand, although they aren’t out of the relegation dogfight, Premier League survival certainly feels a lot more possible for Wolves since Lopetegui took over from Bruno Lage.

Despite a mega summer splash in the transfer market, he couldn’t advert a slide in form that saw them score just eight goals in their opening 15 matches of season, conceding 24 and recorded just 10 points as they sat rooted to the bottom of the table.

It proved to be a protracted pursuit of the former Sevilla boss, but it has proved dividends. With 14 points coming from his first nine games in charge (the same amount as Liverpool over the same time period) backed up by a shored-up defence that have shipped just nine times – they now find themselves three points out of the drop zone.

Wolves continue to be inconsistent under Julen Lopetegui, with some good performances and others very poor.

It really has been a case of hello, goodbye with their opponents on Wednesday night in 2023 so far. Two FA Cup ties and a Premier League defeat at Molineux, of which we’ll have more on in just a second, there surely isn’t much that Klopp doesn’t know about Wolves. Despite injury problems, I still can’t believe how poor Liverpool has been considering how good they were last season. No Wolves fan could have predicted a 3-0 victory.

Liverpool is clearly improving lately with some key players returning from injuries. They are still far from the target (TOP4), but with a victory here could still be in the fight. I believe they have huge potential to improve, while Wolves is a very weak team, with the second worst attack in the whole Premier League (just 18 goals scored so far - one more than relegation team Everton).

感觉事情开始慢慢地在英超联赛中为利物浦走到一起。他们在客场与水晶宫的比赛中互交白卷，这让克洛普的球队在英超联赛中连续三场不失球，这是他们本赛季首次实现这一壮举。更令人印象深刻的是，在这三场比赛中，他们将对手限制在只有 5 次射正，其中 4 次是在 2-0 战胜纽卡斯尔联队的比赛中。

毫无疑问，在冠军联赛中以 5-2 输给皇家马德里后，他们震惊了，但他们确实创造了几次在塞尔赫斯特公园取得胜利的机会，以至于他们两次击中横梁。对于于尔根·克洛普和他的球员来说，在战胜埃弗顿和纽卡斯尔之后，与水晶宫的僵局代表了经典的一步，这是最近向前迈出的两步。

水晶宫在这场比赛中也未能射正目标，红军仍然是唯一尚未失球的球队本赛季联赛中的禁区外进球。

问题是他们需要在更稳定的基础上恢复得分，在过去的六场联赛中有四场未能进球——尽管他们尝试了 43 次射门，但三场比赛都没有进球。 红军仅落后前四名 9 分，并且有可能重返欧洲冠军联赛。而本赛季早些时候的 3-0 逆转是尤尔根·克洛普唯一一次在比赛中对阵狼队丢分。在这里增加这个数字只会增加他们连续磨合的希望。

另一方面，虽然他们还没有脱离保级混战，但自从洛佩特吉接替布鲁诺拉赫以来，狼队在英超联赛中的生存肯定更有可能。

尽管夏季在转会市场上引起了轰动，但他无法指出球队在本赛季开场的 15 场比赛中仅进 8 球，失球 24 球，仅获得 10 分的下滑，因为他们坐稳了桌子的底部。

事实证明，这对这位前塞维利亚主帅来说是一场旷日持久的追逐，但事实证明，这也带来了红利。在他执教的前 9 场比赛中得到 14 分（与同期利物浦的得分相同），再加上仅出场 9 次的稳固防守，他们现在发现自己已经脱离了降级区 3 分。

狼队在 Julen Lopetegui 的带领下继续不稳定，有的表现不错，有的表现很差。

到目前为止，这真的是 2023 年周三晚上与对手打招呼、再见的情况。两场足总杯比赛和一次英超联赛在莫利纽克斯的失利，我们马上就会了解更多，克洛普对狼队的了解肯定不多。尽管有伤病问题，我仍然不敢相信利物浦考虑到他们上赛季的表现有多差。没有狼队球迷能预料到 3-0 的胜利。

利物浦最近明显在进步，一些关键球员伤愈复出。他们距离目标（TOP4）还有很远的距离，但在这里取得胜利仍然可以继续战斗。我相信他们有巨大的进步潜力，而狼队是一支非常弱的球队，进攻在整个英超联赛中排名第二（到目前为止只进了 18 个球——比保级球队埃弗顿多一个）。