Liverpool (A) - Sun 3 Oct 16:30 | Pre-Match Thread

[Father Paul]

That wasn’t a dream. That was a nightmare!!

I'm not very confident about Sunday but fuck me I will not waste valuable sleep time getting terrorised by scousers.

 

[Craig]

Sunday isn't the time to rest your best players.Couple that with the consequence of Sterling starting.....and it would be a brainfart up there with Pep's classics.

Very much doubt he starts as Jesus and Foden are certs and Grealish is almost certain too. If he did start only place i wouldn’t mind him would be on the right with Jesus down the middle. Won’t happen but main reason I wouldn’t mind that would be to get Foden on the left and play with genuine width. Don’t like him playing as a false 9 one bit but obviously the team played well last week so expecting same again.

 

[alexmcity]

So they drew a game, that was a brilliant one by the way because they were thinking let’s save energy? Almost lost because they were saving energy to play a bag of shite in Europe on the Tuesday or do you think they were thinking 8 days ahead and saving this energy for us?

It was obvious that their pressing game was crap vs Brentford. When it's good, teams like Brentford struggle to come out of their half. Teams don't run and press in the same manner in every game. For instance, our energy levels vs Southampton were really poor. That the game between Liverpool and Brentford was brilliant doesn't imply that Liverpool were at their physical best. It's the opposite: they didn't close down Brentford well and allowed them to play and attack. Klopp knows well that the spin of his team is a bit oldish and that their energy levels have to be carefully managed if they want to avoid another collapse. They still could have easily won that game if they were more clinical in the 2nd half and more concentrated in defence.

Also, it's perfectly reasonable to manage the energy levels of the team when your entire game vs top teams is based on superiority wrt running and sprints. Liverpool will run much much more vs City than they did vs Brentford, does anybody doubt it?

 

[JPAMCR]

Weather the first 20 minutes, don’t shit ourselves and we’ll be alright.

 

[Plain Speaking]

there should be no excuse for tiredness etc as the dippers played on the same night and in portugal so that doesnt come into the equation.

Unfortunately they had an easier game and were able to substitute off key players early in preparation for Sunday.

 

[toffee balls]

Weather the first 20 minutes, don’t shit ourselves and we’ll be alright.

Not in Pep’s DNA - keep the ball , ride the tackles , hope for a fair ref , quieten the crowd and off we pop.

 

[Ancient Citizen]

Difficult one to predict, very difficult, a flukey deflection for City will do for me, but it'd be great to smash them, something
we're well capable of.

 

[balotellishaircut]

It’s games like this that I miss Vinnie in the changing room, he would definitely be shouting ‘it’s the first 20 min, they will come at us be strong” no mistakes lads, I hope some fucker else is shouting this.

 

[mrtwiceaseason]

It’s games like this that I miss Vinnie in the changing room, he would definitely be shouting ‘it’s the first 20 min, they will come at us be strong” no mistakes lads, I hope some fucker else is shouting this.

Dias is the new vinnie

 

[Deleted member 77198]

It’s games like this that I miss Vinnie in the changing room, he would definitely be shouting ‘it’s the first 20 min, they will come at us be strong” no mistakes lads, I hope some fucker else is shouting this.

Yet he lost every time he played at Anfield