Liverpool (A) - Sun 1st Dec, 16:00 | PL | Pre-Match Thread

[DMA's]

Hope it’s a midfield 3 of nunes Gundo Bernardo with savinho foden out wide haaland through middle. Walker diss akanji ake as back 4

 

[Chak19]

Insanity if relying on his fitness.

He just cannot stay fit.

Yes and to a lesser extent Ake, and with Dias having his own injury issues now we need one maybe two CB's.

 

[Benarbia’s Backheel]

First poor game and he gets dropped, and is this really the game to give Ortega his first start ? hope it's not a case of throwing him to the wolves.

It’s not his first start

 

[.db.]

One of Walker or Gvardiol starts. Who did we want?
Both are wank at the moment.

Gvardiol was very good up until the point Aké went off on Tuesday. After that the whole defence went to pot.

 

[MarsLlama]

No complaints about Ortega. I am not going to sit here and say we definitely can't win, but regardless of the result this is certainly going to be a tough game. There will be a lot of saves to be made. I have no issues with Pep picking the guy who is more likely to produce a heroic 10-save performance and get us a result.

 

[rodders1973]

Whats going on with KDB?, on the bench AGAIN today surely we need him in matches like today's.

 

[abu13]

First poor game and he gets dropped, and is this really the game to give Ortega his first start ? hope it's not a case of throwing him to the wolves.

To be fair his mistake for the 3rd on Tuesday will have pissed Pep off in a big way, if you come out like that you have to get their, that said there are plenty of others who could be fairly dropped.

 

[heslops barnet]

Thank you doctor .

Don’t need to be a doctor, just look at his injuries and missed games

 

[meeesh]

No complaints about Ortega. I am not going to sit here and say we definitely can't win, but regardless of the result this is certainly going to be a tough game. There will be a lot of saves to be made. I have no issues with Pep picking the guy who is more likely to produce a heroic 10-save performance and get us a result.

And not just today

 

[cookster]

Gvardiol was very good up until the point Aké went off on Tuesday. After that the whole defence went to pot.

Maybe but, it's a 90+ mins game and he was terrible against Spurs as well (not on his own)

 

[MarsLlama]

First poor game and he gets dropped, and is this really the game to give Ortega his first start ? hope it's not a case of throwing him to the wolves.

I think it's a bit deeper than that. Even at his best Ederson represents risk and complexity. Ortega represents simplicity and sturdiness. He is a good choice for a game where we genuinely have good reason to think that we may face more shots than we ever have in a Pep game before. We've been a fucking mess lately and we're away to the world's most in-form team.

 

[kaz7]

 

[cookster]

Whats going on with KDB?, on the bench AGAIN today surely we need him in matches like today's.

Weird, I thought he'd start for sure.
Unless the plan is keep it tight for 60 and hope he makes an impact last 30.

 

[TinFoilHat]

Jaws and @twosips on the bench.

Interesting

 

[mccity]

 

[Benarbia’s Backheel]

Come on blues!!

 

[cookster]

Fuck me that's a slow side.

 

[Chak19]

To be fair his mistake for the 3rd on Tuesday will have pissed Pep off in a big way, if you come out like that you have to get their, that said there are plenty of others who could be fairly dropped.

Yeah well Pep's insane high line that isn't working forces him to play the sweeper role and sometimes he gets it wrong, if he doesn't come out they have acres of space and would've probably scored anyway, Pep should be pissed at himself too because there was no reason to be so high at that point in the game.

 

[beast]

They'll rip us to shreds :/

 

[abu13]

I thought Grealish would have been a starter, we are going to need to control the ball.