Watford (H) - Sat 23rd April, 15:00 (BST) | Pre-Match Thread

[trevorriley]

has to be as strong a team as possible, get a two goal lead or even three, then look at resting players

to be three up after 60 mins would be a dream start, then rest players, kill the game off.

 

[cibaman]

This, from Martin Samuel.

IS THREE THE MAGIC NUMBER FOR LIVERPOOL?

Here are Manchester City’s Premier League results in 2022, broken into handy groups of three. WWD; WWL; WWD; WDW. Notice anything?

To win the league, they will almost certainly have to get out of the habit of dropping points in one game of three.

Watford, Leeds and Newcastle constitute the next sequence.

I mostly like Samuel but he’s inventing a fairly spurious connection there

 

[Otamendi's Beard]

For me I'd go with:

Ederson
Cancelo, Dias, Laporte, Zinchenko
Gundo, Rodri, Bernardo
Jesus, KDB, Sterling

Although Gundo wasn't in good form against Brighton so Mahrez in with KDB deeper would also suffice.

 

[alexmcity]

I mostly like Samuel but he’s inventing a fairly spurious connection there

I agree the connection is spurious, but I also think that the game at Leeds might be more difficult than we expect now. Hopefully, we'll win convincingly vs Real and play at our best vs Leeds. If the result vs Real isn't sufficiently good, Pep/the team will prioritize the 2nd leg and the game at Leeds might turn out to be very difficult.

Therefore, the task vs Watford is just to win, save energy and avoid injuries. A big win would be a bonus, but is not a priority at all.

 

[Tangled up in blue.]

Strongest team possible. Fuck madrid

 

[willipp]

I mostly like Samuel but he’s inventing a fairly spurious connection there

I would tend to agree with him in all honesty. Look at the games we've dropped points in this season. Palace twice, southampton, spurs twice, they generally come out of the blue and are very unexpected. We can't afford any more of those at all, we almost, if not, have to be perfect to the end of the season to win it.

 

[lionheart]

Bloody typical that Villareal's best player (Moreno) has picked up an injury and will miss the first leg of the semi-final, allowing the Scousers to ease forward while we face the heavy artillery.

 

[Bluesummerbee]

Put the game to bed at half time, all but confirm Watford are going down and take a few of the lads off.

 

[AliBobbyJ]

Strongest team possible AND THEN Fuck madrid

edited.

 

[wolfie1988]

I would tend to agree with him in all honesty. Look at the games we've dropped points in this season. Palace twice, southampton, spurs twice, they generally come out of the blue and are very unexpected. We can't afford any more of those at all, we almost, if not, have to be perfect to the end of the season to win it.

Whilst it is easy to see what he is saying, we have only dropped points against 4 teams this season. And against those 4 teams, we have dropped points twice.

We have none of those teams to play again.......