Liverpool (a) Pre-Match Thread

[Easy]

Bravo

Sagna
Otamendi
Kolarov
Clichy

Dinho
Silva
De bruyne

Sterling
Aguero
Sane

I would love this set up. Sterling and Sane will both cause problems. Aguero needs to score and show he is king. We are the better team, lets finally get a win at pool !!

 

[burnley blue mcfc]

They've a defence thats really weak, cant cope with crosses, but thats something we dont do so no doubt performance of the season from them against us as per usual

 

[colorado blue]

Liverpool pressured them into making those mistakes. They were trying to offload the ball quickly as they were being closed down and that paid off for Liverpool. We can't afford to piss around with the ball at the back against them or they will force those kinds of mistakes out of us.

Some pressure on first goal but looked like Stoke could have put ball out for a corner easy enough. 3rd goal was just an awful header into the middle...more pressure than you would expect. 4th goal was a joke...no need to even attempt the back pass because there was space to move forward and he wasn't really under any pressure. Stoke just chocked.

 

[chaddblue]

Tricky line up to predict
Obviously aguero comes in
But do we go two wide players or pack the midfield I think he has to go with a solid midfield and back 4 if that's possible a back 3 would be a bad move
High scoring game but can't see us winning going of first 60 mins at hull hope im wrong!

I don't think that's a foregone conclusion

 

[Danamy]

Leicester was the warm up gig for this game, by fuck I hope he learnt some lessons..........

 

[Kompany is King]

It be nice if we have learnt lessons. Isn't that one of the reasons Pep was brought in?

 

[Maldeika]

Didn't Guardiola's Bayern beat Klopp's Dortmund 3-0 around Christmas of Pep's first year in Germany?

With Pellegrini I'd have written it off as a loss but things are different now.

Yes - he did. There was this match and at the end of the season the Cup final. The second league match Bayern lost, but that was a dead rubber as Bayern already had won the league by then and it was in between CL quarter final and Cup semi final.





Pep used different strategies. Until about the 60s of the league match we played with Mandzu, Müller - and Martinez in midfield - as target man for long passes. That worked but Dortmund adapted to it and there weren't many big chances. Than Pep subbed in the "small guys" - Götze for Mandzu and Thiago for Boateng who was near a red card. Martinez went into defense then.

There were big injury problems at the time of the Cup final. Schweinsteiger, Thiago and Alaba were injured - Ribery was just good for a short substitute appearance because of his back problems. Pep started that match with a low! line in a 3-4-2-1 with a back three - Dante, Martinez and Boateng - with Rafinha (right full back) as left wingback and he trusted Höjbjerg as the right one. With Lahm, Kroos and Götze and Müller in midfield behind striker Robben (with Mandzukic he had his problems... - they escalated then). Bayern won the match with a goal of Robben in minute 107 and Müller in 123... What was interesting is that the same guys that had a real great fitness in the World Cup including the matches in overtime had cramps during overtime in this match. The German national team has real great fitness coaches - but I think that we had fitness problems with Pep at the end of his first year - that the timing was not that good.

 

[MCFCFanTX]

3-2 City. Kun brace.

 

[colorado blue]

Undecided whether I would start Sterling. He is a confidence player and don't think we does well we all the constant boo boys so would be tempted to play Sane and KDB out wide and leave Sterling on the bench for this one.

 

[Newman Noggs]

Undecided whether I would start Sterling. He is a confidence player and don't think we does well we all the constant boo boys so would be tempted to play Sane and KDB out wide and leave Sterling on the bench for this one.

I know what you mean but, and this may sound harsh, we cannot afford to have players at our club who can only play against certain teams and not others. If a bit of booing doesn't inspire him to ram it back down their throats, then he's not worth keeping.