Liverpool (A) - Sun 8th Feb, 16:30 | PL | Pre-Match Thread

[Eric Hitchmough]

If Bernie is injured

Donnarumma
Nunes
Guehi
Dias
Ait Nouri
Rodri
Gonzalez
O’Reilly
Cherki
Semenyo
Marmoush

 

[Hgblue2]

If Bernardo isn’t injured

Donnarumma
Nunes
Dias
Guehi
O’Reilly
Rodri
Gonzalez
Semenyo
Cherki
Foden
Haaland

 

[alexmcity]

Those formations without Haaland are a bit pointless, as he is guaranteed to start and rightly so.

Dias or Khusa? Guess Pep will go with Khusa. Dias won't be ready for that game.

RAN or NOR at LB? NOR unless Pep plays him in midfield.

Rodri or Gonzalez: most certainly both.

If Bernardo is fit enough, he starts, which means NOR at LB. If he isn't, NOR or Reijnders (probably the latter)

Front 3: Cherki, Haaland, Semenyo.

A formation with Cherki in midfield and a front 3 of Haaland, Marmoush and Semenyo is too attacking. Pep might be tempted to try it with both Rodri and Gonzalez at DM and us relying mostly on counters (like at the Emirates), but I doubt it. Cherki to start on the right wing.

 

[TinFoilHat]

That's too bad Bernie hates those bastards.

Any excuse to repost this.

:)

 

[TinFoilHat]

Haaland has been figured out.

He needs to watch until he can figure out how to adapt his game. Even today he had 2 perfectly good chances that he should have buried.

Haaland needs to find his 2.0 version.

He's not been figured out.

He's been hamstring by PiGMOL using the rules against him when it comes to defenders holding players.

 

[Ric]

Just seen that Pawson will ref this. Ugh.

 

[SWP's back]

Just seen that Pawson will ref this. Ugh.

Let’s face it. There’s none I’d trust not to fuck us at Anfield right now.

 

[Sibierskii]

Those formations without Haaland are a bit pointless, as he is guaranteed to start and rightly so.

Rightly so? Absolutely no right. We all know that he’ll have 5/6 touches, VVD could play in his carpet slippers.

Play Omar/false 9. Give him the minutes and the rhythm he deserves

 

[argyle]

Can see it being a loss or draw and this place having a meltdown. But the life of a fan is to always hope for the win.

If we do we'll have to score 3 in the first half as I can't see us keeping them out.

Feels like we're running on empty, especially in the 2nd half.

He'll start Haaland though there's a big argument for Marmoush to start up top.

On top of that we have to contend with the refs and var...

 

[Zenmanc]

Blimey the Haaland haters and peps leaving bedwetters have taken over this place lately.

"Haaland hater" If you can't see his abyssmal dip in form of late that simply has me saying maybe he shoudn't just be handed the obligatory start based on what he has done- not what he has been doing of late- my appologies for having an optometrist that doesnt prescribe every set of specs in city blue tint.

I know he will start and I hope he proves me wrong - I just pine for a more creative presence at the 9 which suits what Pep is trying to do and as we arent going to see Pep change his approach- I'd like to think a world class player could adjust. Erl is a jack hammer where a scalpel is needed- sometimes the jack hammer gets the job done by brute force alone.

 

[alexmcity]

Rightly so? Absolutely no right. We all know that he’ll have 5/6 touches, VVD could play in his carpet slippers.

Play Omar/false 9. Give him the minutes and the rhythm he deserves

Pep isn't silly to bench Haaland in such a game.

 

[Withnail]

Defensively with Szoboszlai most likely filling in at rb, they definitely can be got at. Hopefully Semenyo can have some joy on Sunday and we can get a positive result.

 

[colorado blue]

Hard to leave Kush out but if Dias is back I expect he will play. Also, wonder why Semenyo has only been playing on the right even with Doku out. Pretty sure he mainly played left for Bournemouth. That and not a single long throw in from him yet.

 

[the blue panther]

Even a '26 version of Salah will run Ait-Nouri ragged, I fear.

Just as much chance of the opposite being true - Salah's done fuck-all all season and never tracks back. Liverpool's defence is shite all the time when pressured - like ours in a second half!

 

[Eaststander1]

Think I’ll snatch your hand off for a draw at moment it make it 8 points behind with 13 games left we beat Arsenal it’s five points but it will mean winning our last 11 games at least then hoping Arsenal drop points!

Yep, we needed 28 wins the last time we won the title, which is pretty much the yardstick i tend to think, on the odd occasion you might need even more ..... although last season Liverpool, who finished ten points ahead of Arsenal, managed it with only 25 wins.

So far this season, with 14 league games left, Arsenal have 16 wins, and we have 14 .... and (so far) they have successfully managed to stay ahead of both us and Villa.

 

[richards30]

Dias was training indoors last week and back into full training Monday after only a matter of 4 weeks off and not 4 months! He will start alongside Guehi on Sunday imo and I wouldn’t be adverse to Khusanov staying at RB for this one to make us more solid and use his pace

 

[Eaststander1]

Dias was training indoors last week and back into full training Monday after only a matter of 4 weeks off and not 4 months! He will start alongside Guehi on Sunday imo and I wouldn’t be adverse to Khusanov staying at RB for this one to make us more solid and use his pace

Maya will see that Ruben stays active, and ensure that he gets his oats, i mean excecise, whether he's carrying an injury or not !

 

[Paleblue2]

Can't remember going for a Loss previously but have done now, save me changing vote 55 minutes in when the seemingly inevitable second half collapse occurs

 

[youngbob]

Hoping for:

Donnarumma
Nunes Dias Guehi Ait-Nouri
Rodri Gonzalez O'Reilly
Cherki
Semenyo Marmoush

Will get:

Donnarumma
Nunes Khusanov Guehi O'Reilly
Rodri Gonzalez
Foden Cherki Semenyo
Haaland

 

[69FACUPfinal]

I always vote loss for Klanfield. Even in the days of our super teams 17-19 and 21-23. We get flecked over every time by officials. And we can't even blame the ref for the Mahrez Skyfall pK, infact BRAVE to award the opposition a penalty in that cesspit....