Liverpool (A) - Sun 10th Mar, 15:45 | PL | Pre-Match Thread

Match Result Prediction?

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Josh_D said:
I detest this fixture but I’ll always believe in the lads. Been shafted in plain sight over the years against them.

I’d say that it would be nice to see them on the end of a thumping. I’ve seen City do that against them at least.

I would so love a jammy/contentious win so that they’ll cry harder till the end of the season.

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I get what you’re saying but the last thing we want is a contentious win. We’ve seen what happened after the spurs game where they were demanding the game be replayed and hey presto every decision since has gone their way!
 
Pingu the Penguin said:
I think we will win. The only thing that stops that is us turning back up the road after the coach gets smashed. I’d love the club to have the balls to do that
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Advise the PL,Media & Plod well in advance.....coach hit.....we return straight to civilisation.

Then radio silence, no comments, no interviews, nothing.

Cold hearts,cool heads,hot feet and drive a stake right through #NeverCenturiansorTrebleWinnersPool !!
 
I can never feel confident going to The Cult. I mustve been 12/13 times and not seen a win.
Hopefullu thatll change sunday but i wont feel tickedy boo about going
 
Any other club, apart from dippers and rags, would be made to guarantee the safety of the opposition and their bus, but these cunts can attack our bus every time we play there. Nothing is ever said, not by the police, the premier league, liverpool fc or anyone in the media. But if someone supporting City says the wrong thing they’ll be arrested.
 
We have to at least match their result at the Etihad. That evens things up and boils the season down to who got the best results against the rest of the League.

A loss certainly doesn’t put us out of contention, but requires others to do our heavy lifting, while making the job of PGMOL & the PL that much easier for the Klopp Farewell Tour Trophy Parade!
 
City should request that the Premier League find them a safe way of getting to Anfield. And safe does not include a baying mob of thousands bricking the coach, and most importantly throwing flares, which if one landed near a fuel line could cause the bus to be on fire and potentially kill everyone in it. From a health and safety point of view such danger in peoples work areas is totally unacceptable and wouldn’t be accepted anywhere in a normal workplace (well, apart from uefa in Istanbul)
 
Midfield is where this is won on Sunday, and I think ours is slightly better. My guess is they'll have Mcallister, Szoboslai, and Elliott in their three, all good players but not masses of creativity against the better teams. We should be able to create quite a few chances and we can't be as profligate as we have been in so many matches this season. Take our chances and you have to fancy us
 
BringBackSwales said:
City should request that the Premier League find them a safe way of getting to Anfield. And safe does not include a baying mob of thousands bricking the coach, and most importantly throwing flares, which if one landed near a fuel line could cause the bus to be on fire and potentially kill everyone in it. From a health and safety point of view such danger in peoples work areas is totally unacceptable and wouldn’t be accepted anywhere in a normal workplace (well, apart from uefa in Istanbul)
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A normal workplace would rule them out.
 
Ric said:
That seems the most likely team, although a possible alternative would be to play Stones as an out and out midfielder ahead of Kovacic, and play Akanji at centre-half. His pace might be needed against Nunez and Diaz.
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Haven't thought about this option, looks very interesting. There are pros and cons.

A possible negative is that Liverpool might read this as an encouraging sign that we fear them and would be happy with a draw. Also, Kova might be a better option for beating their high press, as he is more nimble and better on the ball in tight spaces. But he takes some risks at times, too, which is not optimal at Anfield.

Pep might prefer to play with 5 attacking players (Haaland, Alvarez, Foden, KDB and Bernardo) than with 5 defensive players (Walker, Dias, Akanji, Stones and Ake).

Another tactical option: Bernardo next to Rodri and Nunes on the right/left due to his ability to run with the ball in spaces freed by Liverpool's high press.
 
Surely the onus is on Liverpool FC. Let's put pressure on them to make a statement that if anyone is found caught throwing anything at City's coach they will be given 3/5 year stadium bans or some other punishment. But just like in 2018 they knew what would happen but just turned a blind eye, took advantage of the psychological damage done and then came out with alily livered apology
 
It's weird, as fans a lot of us know that the so called 'Anfield atmosphere' is a fallacy and Anfield is nothing special but it hasn't stopped quite a few of our sides getting stage fright & losing their bollocks over the years.
It will be hugely disappointing if that happens again, as it is, i think we'll win on Sunday
 
Something like this is likely

..............Ederson

......Walker....Dias....Ake

......Stones...Rodri...Bernie/Kova

...Nunes/Bernie... KDB.....Foden....

...................Haaland


A more attacking version:

.......Stones.....Rodri

Bernie....KDB....Foden...Alvarez

..............Haaland

with Foden and Alvarez interchanging positions. Btw, Alvarez played at LW vs Copenhagen in the 1st half.
 
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