{"id":1047893,"date":"2026-06-24T22:03:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T22:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1047893\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T22:03:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T22:03:15","slug":"the-liverpool-offsides-world-cup-week-two-survey-the-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1047893\/","title":{"rendered":"The Liverpool Offside\u2019s World Cup Week Two Survey: The Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">For the second week of the World Cup, we turned our attention to Liverpool\u2019s stars at the tournament. With every one of the club\u2019s representative having played two games, won three Man of the Match awards, and Reds making more goal contributions than players from any other club it seemed like we had plenty to celebrate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">In the end, though, there was one very clear winner in TLO\u2019s latest SB Nation Reacts! poll, in <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsbook.fanduel.com\/soccer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">partnership with FanDuel<\/a>, and that\u2019s Cody Gakpo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Liverpool\u2019s Dutch forward ran away with the vote to earn a dominant 63% win on the strength of two goals, an assist, and Man of the Match honours in the Netherlands\u2019 5-1 demolition of Sweden. Now the question becomes whether Gakpo can bring his Dutch form back to Liverpool, where he had probably the most disappointing season of his career in 2025-26.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Speaking of Sweden and disappointing 2025-26 seasons, Alexander Isak nabbed second with 17% of the vote for being that country\u2019s attacking bright spot in the tournament and putting in the kinds of performances Liverpool fans will be hoping to see a few of next year at the club level.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Hopefully everyone had fun with this one, and with a little luck maybe we\u2019ll have a few chances to take part in more SB Nation Reacts polls before the World Cup comes to a close!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the second week of the World Cup, we turned our attention to Liverpool\u2019s stars at the tournament.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1047894,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8815],"tags":[748,393,4884,179,27788,16,15],"class_list":["post-1047893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liverpool","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-liverpool","tag-miscellaneous","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116807349527011323","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1047893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1047894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1047893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1047893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1047893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}