Liverpool (H) | Pre-Match Thread

[PhdWave]

I think if Gundo is able to hold the ball well in mid then we have a good chance since they have 4 forwards

 

[pluto]

Not going to be 0 0 this
Really pleased torres starting

 

[Fordyboy46]

Surely we could've had an academy lad taking Garcia's place on the bench, absolutely no need for three centre halves on it.

 

[mosssideblue]

Kloop has arrived with one thing in mind. OUTSCORE

Good. It will make a welcome change

 

[HorlocksWalk]

Need a big game from KDB today.

 

[BringBackSwales]

They are playing two holding midfielders and are set up to play on the counter, I think.
We should boss it in the middle.

Very odd set up from bingo.

Kick and run for the front four

 

[Drubas]

First time he has ever had to make these decisions since he is in charge of the dippers. Normally you'd know their starting 11 straight away bar one change in midfield which is like for like.
I'm hoping he has shot himself in the foot today.

It's the reason they bought Jota. They've actually tried this kind of setup occasionally, mostly due to rotation. A 4-5-1 in mid and low block defense (kind of like now), but the gegenpress has been fucked up, since the attacking play is just way too free flowing and ad-hoc. People all over the place and the gegenpress just gets totally out of sync. Liverpool can't force the tempo and intensity like they usually do. I hate it. It has never worked, and we're terribly exposed.

 

[oakiecokie]

That front "4" of theirs worries me to shit ... especially that diving twat !!

 

[PragueBlue]

Would have preferred Ake at LB and Bernardo in place of Gundogan but hopefully it'll turn out to be the right decision.

We're going to have to be on our toes at the back with them playing 4 forwards.

 

[PhdWave]

Mahrez out of bench seems risky as hell but oh what the hell I trust our baldy...

 

[jimharri]

Happy enough with that. Would probably have picked Bernardo over Gundo myself, but looking at Liverpools lineup I think Pep made the right call

Same here. But Pep has an awful lot of trust in Gundogan. And he's been managing longer than I have.

 

[mccity]

I am hopeful Klopp has underestimated our defence with that line-up. Either that or he's so lacking in confidence he's decided to go balls to the wall.

 

[mosssideblue]

Does Pep honestly think the Gundogan Rodri combo makes us better defensively?. Because it certainly doesn't, infact you could argue it always seems to make us worse, not happy with this again but time will tell I guess. Come on City.

What was the line up when we last played them?

 

[Lancet Fluke]

That front "4" of theirs worries me to shit ... especially that diving twat !!

You're going to have to narrow that down for us a bit.

 

[BringBackSwales]

That front "4" of theirs worries me to shit ... especially that diving twat !!

“That diving twat” doesn’t really narrow it down much

 

[ancoats]

pretty much the line up we all had in mind

city have to be boss today and control the game from the back. no silly stuff and even kick it long to change it up
look as much we all hate liverpool we have to respect them and we know there game and we can beat them

BUT its that little old chestnut of letting the officials control the game and we lose the plot ?
we must take our chances today and take the officials out of the game. even VAR will be watching every little thing city do. we know they will flag up anything to get a result for liverpool

tight game and lets hope city put on a show because if we click nobody can beat us not even the officials and VAR

 

[mosssideblue]

That front "4" of theirs worries me to shit ... especially that diving twat !!

Which one

 

[cookster]

Ake for Cancelo and Bernie for Gundo and I would have been happier. Just hope whoever plays in front of Cancelo (prob Raz) works hard to cover the left hand side.

Looks like Klopp has gone for broke, be interesting to see how it plays out, especially if they don't have much ball.

 

[mccity]

So Mahrez plays selfishly and keeps getting picked, and the first time he makes an effort to be more selfless he's canned the very next game. I reckon there's way more to it but it does seem ironic.

 

[EL APACHE TEVEZ]

Fuckin hell the dippers gone for 4 up front