Liverpool (A) | Pre-Match Thread

[ancoats]

It’s here.

what about the 2 rounds of the league cup liverpool played the kids ? plus the 2 game city played after liverpool got knockout and city had to play weekend midweek weekend since december

ok the covid-19 thing hit the city camp and missed some game time ? but i think that nothing to do with the form liverpool have been in this season. maybe liverpool and klopp have pushed the players over the limit in the past 3 years and now its catching up on them

 

[Tricky_Trev]

That they have problems at CB doesn't mean that we have to be gung ho. Think Liverpool made that mistake last season when they saw us starting with Garcia at CB and decided to attack us relentlessly. And we won 4:0.

We should be patient, tire them down, and beat them in the 2nd half. They'll be dead on their legs in the last 15 minutes or so, since they've rotated much less than us over the last few weeks.

Think Fabinho and Kazak will play CB with Henderson going back into midfield.

City: Ederson, Cancelo, Stones, Dias, Laporte?, Rodri, Bernardo, Gundogan, Sterling, Mahrez/Jesus, Foden.

Liverpool: Alisson, TAA, Fabinho, Kazak, Robertson, Thiago, Wijnaldum, Henderson, Salah, Firmino, Mané.

We need to get through the first 30 mins and not be 3-0 down for a change! Then grow into the game and hopefully have a strong 2nd half. Basically what we did when Mahrez missed the penalty, but actually score this time :)

 

[MCFC1993]

Klopp seems rattled with that more rest comment.

Anyway:
1) Players wouldn't choose covid over football, putting their health and families at risk.
2) We had a 1 week 'break' which is pretty standard across the season. We then went to Chelsea missing various 1st team players and still won.
3) We're still in the League Cup, so there's more breaks for Liverpool.
4) We're still in the FA Cup, so there's more breaks for Liverpool.
5) He played 1st team starters vs Villa's U18's, daft.
6) Jota got injured in a game where they'd already made the Champions League knockouts.

So Herr Klopp, you're talking shite.

 

[Manchester33]

I wonder if anyone's kept a list of how many players have missed games for both City and Liverpool due to injuries and COVID - I reckon we've probably been as badly affected, if not worse than them.

They've done very well to win a couple of trophies with such a small squad. They don't really have the strength in depth that clubs like us, Bayern, Madrid, Juve & PSG have and that's why they're falling off the edge of a cliff now that they've lost a couple of defenders.

 

[wolfie1988]

For context:

Liverpool played 19th > 27th > 30th Dec > 4th > 8th > 17th Jan = 6 games
City played 19th > 22nd > 26th Dec > 3rd > 6th > 10th > 13th > 17th Jan = 8 games

= Klopp is a fucking joke

 

[fulabeer]

I'm not normally so bothered about his fake news quotes, but this "two weeks" break has pissed me off.
So i've just checked and they had a "weeks" break just days earlier. He needs calling out about this.

They played Crystal Palace on Dec 19th
Then WBA on Dec 27th = 8 days

We played Newcastle Dec 26th
Then Chelsea Jan 3rd = 8 days

Do one you fuckin dickhead...

 

[willipp]

I'm not normally so bothered about his fake news quotes, but this "two weeks" break has pissed me off.
So i've just checked and they had a "weeks" break just days earlier. He needs calling out about this.

They played Crystal Palace on Dec 19th
Then WBA on Dec 27th = 8 days

We played Newcastle Dec 26th
Then Chelsea Jan 3rd = 8 days

Do one you fuckin dickhead...

Its probably exactly what he wants, he's trying to ruffle our feathers. Ignore goofy fuck faced **** and we focus on whats served us so well for the last 2 months.

 

[Gorton_Tubster]

I am not surprised at the fake news bullshit from Klopp... Trump-like bollocks, he knows how to obfuscate.

I hope Pep calls it out because it is pure lying.

 

[Chi-town blues]

Kloppsy escape hatch is ready.I think he used all of his out of jail cards like strong wind, snow, fire and now covid etc etc
Turned into peg in no time.

 

[kaz7]

Pep Guardiola on #LIVMCI: "The game is to win and three points. It's not how may games and centuries and so on. It's another game in the #PL 38 games and so on.

Pep Guardiola on the importance of #LIVMCI in the title race: "I don't make predictions - I don't know. I don't know about my team so imagine about the other teams. 60 days ago we were 12th, now we are first. I'm not more than concerned about the Liverpool game