Injury Updates

[Keeper!]

I always think we smash teams at the start of the second half. Pep recalibrates at half time. West Ham is a perfect example.

Not sure the West Ham second half improvement was simply down to a good old rollicking from Pep

 

[Big Dave Watson]

Sorry, must have come into the wrong thread. Was looking for injury news.

 

[CatMan]

Sorry, must have come into the wrong thread. Was looking for injury news.

Exactly! Incidentally people are questioning the photo that shows Diaz that emerged on Tuesday, well this was also published on the club's own Facebook account!

Furthermore with regards to why Bernardo was in gloves?, well on Monday's warm down session, lots of the players are in tights and gloves!

 

[M18CTID]

Don’t know if you’re specifically referring to the West Ham game ? I thought we had a great first half, controlled it from start to finish (78% possession) but got sucker punched twice.

I agree partly - we had a lot of the ball and a fair few chances but it all felt rather laboured despite us dominating possession, meaning West Ham looked comfortable for a lot of the half, plus they exploited our defensive vulnerability to the max.

2nd half was totally different - there was a lot more urgency and imagination to our play and West Ham struggled to cope. We almost gifted them a 3rd goal though, so we need to be wary of this on Sunday if it's another largely patched-up defence.

The key could be as another poster stated - we need to pen Villa in from the off and play at a good tempo throughout, while constantly pulling their players out of position.

 

[City_Sean]

It's impossible to call Villa's approach. Obviously Gerrard is desperate to beat us whatever he says. I'd guess that would apply to Coutinho and Ings too. Luiz may have a soft spot for us who knows? Nine out of ten times we beat Villa, let's hope that Sunday is one of the nine.

Considering Coutinho has been has had boos from the Liverpool fans every time he's played them since he left I sincerely doubt he's arsed.

It's becoming a ridiculous narrative. If Gerrard has them more up for Sunday than any other game then the players are more likely to be thinking "why the fuck is this guy more arsed about getting Liverpool a result than us?"

Id actually wager Villa will be more up for tonight than Sunday as it's the last game in front of their supporters.

 

[Ric]

Personally I'm not expecting any of the three injured players to be available, but hopefully we'll get some training pictures today to give a bit of clarity. Think the back four on Sunday will be Cancelo, Ake, Laporte, Zinchenko.

 

[bluemoon32]

Personally I'm not expecting any of the three injured players to be available, but hopefully we'll get some training pictures today to give a bit of clarity. Think the back four on Sunday will be Cancelo, Ake, Laporte, Zinchenko.

I'd be fine with that back four

 

[jimharri]

Personally I'm not expecting any of the three injured players to be available, but hopefully we'll get some training pictures today to give a bit of clarity. Think the back four on Sunday will be Cancelo, Ake, Laporte, Zinchenko.

Would he take a chance on Walker, given the importance of the game, and the fact that it's the last game of the season?

 

[Ric]

Would he take a chance on Walker, given the importance of the game, and the fact that it's the last game of the season?

Only if he's been able to train this week, I presume.

 

[Dave El Magico]

We should beat Villa easily.

Should.

In the same way we ought to have beaten QPR easily.

Hope that helps! ;-)


What is in our favour is that Gerrard will be emotional about it and have them overhyped.

I think we may be 3 up at half time.

Like that optimism and will be great if you are right. I’m not greedy and will accept 2-0 at half time.