Liverpool (a) Pre-Match Thread

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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 !!
 
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
 
RandomJ said:
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.
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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.
 
birchwoodgingerste said:
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!
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I don't think that's a foregone conclusion
 
MarsLlama said:
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.
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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.
 
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.
 
colorado blue said:
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.
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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.
 
Pep got to see their strengths and weaknesses laid bare yesterday. Suspect at the back but deadly going forward, a more extreme version of City on all fronts, basically a glass cannon.

Control will be important here as our defense don't have the pace to cope with sustained pressure from the dipper forwards and Klanfield's oppressive atmosphere confounds that.

Bravo
Sagna Otamendi Kolarov Clichy
Fernandinho
Sane Silva Toure KDB
Aguero

Minimising errors, particularly misplaced passes, will be key so Dinho, Toure and Silva should be locks. Sane provides pace and his runs will be a challenge for the dipper back line. Defense mostly picks itself and KDB/Bravo aren't going anywhere.

The only question IMO is Aguero. I feel he starts, but he's out of form and it's perhaps not the best venue/setting to correct that.
 
I was there that day. 1 of 2 trips to anfield. The other being a 4 nil defeat in the cup which was then followed by a 6 nil defeat in the league the following Saturday.

Here's hoping NYE will be more like the former
 
Bravo
Sagna
Otamendi
Stones
Clichy
Fernandinho
Yaya
Silva
De Bruyne
Sane
Aguero

2-1 to us
 
We've been pretty decent away from home this year including 50 mins in Barcelona. Liverpool have proved they can be beat we just need to be on top of our game from the off. Thinking about it now I'd probably keep Aguero on the bench and pack out the midfield and play on the counter.

Bravo

Sagna Otamendi Kolarov/Stones (If fit) Clichy

Fernando Fernandinho

Sterling Yaya Silva

De Bruyne.
 
Wreckless Alec said:
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.
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A little harsh but fundamentally correct.

Sterlings mental strength & character are still,understandably,unproven. If he'd have taken 1of his 2 chances at Wembers he'd have been in a good place for the league game 3 days later. He didn't & wasnt & absolutely crumbled.

It's your time now Razza......cometh the hour !!!

City 1-2.
 
CrownPointBlue said:
Sterlings mental strength & character are still,understandably,unproven.
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Are they? I call bollocks. He was the most derided English player at the Euros and has had a consistent 18 month media campaign against him. In the face of that he has been one of our most important players in the season so far. His character and mental strength are absolutely not unproven. They are clearly proven and have been since he forced a move out of Liverpool when plenty of other players would've shut the fuck up and signed whatever deal Rogers and the scouse mafia put in front of them.
 
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