2017/18 Preseason, European Cups, Domestic Cups and Internationals thread

ElTel · 06-08-2017 3:46pm

Shall we call him Kola?

manual_man · 06-08-2017 3:46pm

Now saying on commentary that straight red for violent conduct will mean suspension in PL

COH · 06-08-2017 3:46pm

Hogey007 wrote: »

No ban for him. Ridiculous again from fa.

Lucas Hood wrote: »

Doesn't carry over to league.

Commentators saying that it does? Two yellows doesn't carry over but as the red was for violent conduct it does?

Lucas Hood · 06-08-2017 3:48pm

I dunno.
If it's an official game then how is Moses playing as he should be suspended.

Hogey007 · 06-08-2017 3:49pm

COH wrote: »

Commentators saying that it does? Two yellows doesn't carry over but as the red was for violent conduct it does?

They originally said it counted. It's bt, they're clueless. They got the away goals rule wrong on numerous occasions last season.
Awful channel with clueless commentators like Steve Mc manaman. The absolute minimum you expect from a commentator is to know the rules.

km79 · 06-08-2017 3:49pm

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2187607/Branislav-Ivanovic-serve-ban-red-card-Community-Shield.html

No ban

km79 · 06-08-2017 3:54pm

Moratta poor miss from fab cross

km79 · 06-08-2017 3:57pm

Gone to pens

km79 · 06-08-2017 4:09pm

Arsenal win
Courtouis blasted over Chelsea's second pen!!!!!
Moratta then missed the 3rd. Off target not even saved

extra gravy · 06-08-2017 8:46pm

Afobe scores again for Bournemouth, pity he's not nailed on.

manual_man · 06-08-2017 9:29pm

Francis scored

Why didn't you save it for GW1 Simon

km79 · 06-08-2017 9:32pm

manual_man wrote: »

Francis scored Why didn't you save it for GW1 Simon

That hilarious as I had just put him into team instead of hegazi as I've reverted to foster in goals
I just couldn't bring myself to sped the big bucks on a goalie!

extra gravy · 06-08-2017 9:40pm

Looking at Fabianski/Gomes now, a few tough home fixtures in their first 6 but they had the 3rd and 4th highest number of saves last season. Just gone off Foster altogether.

km79 · 06-08-2017 9:43pm

extra gravy wrote: »

Looking at Fabianski/Gomes now, a few tough home fixtures in their first 6 but they had the 3rd and 4th highest number of saves last season. Just gone off Foster altogether.

I was actually looking at gomes myself earlier
Be so much easier if we knew for sure Elliot was a starter

km79 · 08-08-2017 7:45pm

De Gea
Valencia Lindlof smalling Darmian
Matic
Herrera Pogba
Lingard lukaku miki

Darmain has kind of slipped under the radar
Blind has been horrific Preseason
Shaw out for another month
5.5

United are actually gone 3 CB with darmian
Valencia and lingard wing backs

km79 · 08-08-2017 7:54pm

Miki is playing more or less up front with lukaku .........

ScummyMan · 08-08-2017 7:57pm

Yeah he's gonna be a gem this year.

Pogba > Mkhitaryan done

km79 · 08-08-2017 7:59pm

ScummyMan wrote: »

Yeah he's gonna be a gem this year.

Pogba > Mkhitaryan done

I'm wavering
He will be rotated and Pogba will have set pieces

This is the toughest call now for me

km79 · 08-08-2017 8:10pm

One nil Madrid
Ljndelof slightly at fault

km79 · 08-08-2017 8:58pm

2 nil
Lindelof caught out again

Pogba then missed and lukaku missed follow up !
Pogba has got forward more than miki since I said otherwise
Miki anonymous as he tends to be against the big teams

Paully D · 08-08-2017 9:00pm

Worth considering that United are playing Real Madrid before people start overreacting and taking United players out of their team based on this game.

spock. · 08-08-2017 9:06pm

Lukaku (Matic)

km79 · 08-08-2017 9:07pm

Paully D wrote: »

Worth considering that United are playing Real Madrid before people start overreacting and taking United players out of their team based on this game.

No I think they shud take them out

All joking aside though if ye have lindelof take him out cos Jose will be !

Paully D · 08-08-2017 9:19pm

km79 wrote: »

No I think they shud take them out

All joking aside though if ye have lindelof take him out cos Jose will be !

I wish I had the balls to take a punt on Jones. Smalling could get the nod alongside Bailly, no?

km79 · 08-08-2017 9:22pm

Paully D wrote: »

I wish I had the balls to take a punt on Jones. Smalling could get the nod alongside Bailly, no?

No he has been paired mainly with ljndelof and was also poor tonight
But of course Phil Jones could break at any given moment

Lucas Hood · 15-08-2017 6:51pm

Liverpool XI: Mignolet; Alexander-Arnold, Lovren, Matip, Moreno; Henderson, Can, Wijnaldum; Mane, Firmino, Salah.

km79 · 15-08-2017 6:53pm

Liverpool unchanged
If this tie is still in the balance next weekends team sheet will be interesting

manual_man · 15-08-2017 7:05pm

km79 wrote: »

Liverpool unchanged
If this tie is still in the balance next weekends team sheet will be interesting

I doubt it'll be a factor. 4 days between each set of games

Iused2likebusts · 15-08-2017 7:36pm

km79 wrote: »

Liverpool unchanged
If this tie is still in the balance next weekends team sheet will be interesting

Their isn't really any changes that can be made. I wouldn't expect any rotation in the front 3. 4 day break till sat and another 4 days till wed.

km79 · 15-08-2017 7:52pm

Iused2likebusts wrote: »

km79 wrote: »

Liverpool unchanged
If this tie is still in the balance next weekends team sheet will be interesting

Their isn't really any changes that can be made. I wouldn't expect any rotation in the front 3. 4 day break till sat and another 4 days till wed.

Origi ? Sturridge ?
If this tie is still alive I'll eat my hat if the team and frontline is unchanged for palace hoffenheim and Arsenal in the palace of 10/11 days after this

KevIRL · 15-08-2017 8:20pm

TAA (mane)

Hogey007 · 15-08-2017 8:21pm

KevIRL wrote: »

TAA (mane)

Pretty handy at the free kicks he is!! TAA. Interesting!!!

ScummyMan · 15-08-2017 9:15pm

Salah has been really poor

KevIRL · 15-08-2017 9:18pm

Milner goal

km79 · 15-08-2017 9:19pm

Firmino assist
Tie over

Iused2likebusts · 15-08-2017 9:22pm

Mane has been class tonight. I'm on mane and salah but in time I'd hope to end up with mane and firmino.

ScummyMan · 15-08-2017 9:39pm

Iused2likebusts wrote: »

Mane has been class tonight. I'm on mane and salah but in time I'd hope to end up with mane and firmino.

Ya, by far and away Pool's best player

km79 · 15-08-2017 9:42pm

I onlyseen last 5 minutes but it was enough to convince me to play Scott Dann
They just can not defend set pieces

Paddy_Irishman · 15-08-2017 9:50pm

Moreno and Lovren were awful. Diagonal ball constantly and out of position constantly.

Alex-arnold seems a decent player but got caught out a few times.

Liverpool badly need to strengthen that defence. Danny rose lwb and VVD cb be a good improvement. Maybe throw in Costa with the coutinho money ðŸ˜‚. Very decent side then!

shineon23 · 15-08-2017 11:28pm

Highlight of the game for me was Kevin Kilbane on commentary, when Milner came on for Henderson to suggest Milner go left back as he played there last season and put Moreno up in midfield.

If only Klopp had directly replaced Henderson with a player that has won 2 Premier League titles with Man City when primarily playing in midfield,

wait no that's exactly what he did. :rolleyes:

To be fair to Kevin, getting Moreno as far away from the back four as possible would have been a sound strategy :pac:

wonski · 15-08-2017 11:32pm

Both Salah and Mane looked sharp in the extended highlights. Happy to have one of them in my team.

manual_man · 15-08-2017 11:38pm

wonski wrote: »

Both Salah and Mane looked sharp in the extended highlights. Happy to have one of them in my team.

And Firmino to convert the penalties when one of them gets fouled :pac: Mané was superb. Salah not quite so good but continues to get in good positions and i'm sure he'll provide good value for £9m

wonski · 15-08-2017 11:42pm

manual_man wrote: »

And Firmino to convert the penalties when one of them gets fouled :pac: Mané was superb. Salah not quite so good but continues to get in good positions and i'm sure he'll provide good value for £9m

I will stick with Firmino for now.

He might not look as explosive as the other two, but he runs between two players who can pass the ball at any time so he can tap it in.

Iused2likebusts · 15-08-2017 11:43pm

km79 wrote: »

I onlyseen last 5 minutes but it was enough to convince me to play Scott Dann
They just can not defend set pieces

Not just set pieces. Moreno's display tonight was comical I can't sell benteke this week.

wonski · 15-08-2017 11:53pm

This game will be FPL goldmine with no clean sheets and lot of goals:D

Can't wait

PVA · 16-08-2017 10:17am

wonski wrote: »

Both Salah and Mane looked sharp in the extended highlights. Happy to have one of them in my team.

Back to Liverpool MF roulette then...

Cartman78 · 16-08-2017 10:37am

PVA wrote: »

Back to Liverpool MF roulette then...

Very true.....will be even more of a lottery when/if Coutinho returns.

My 2 cents on Liverpool (as a long long suffering fan)

- Liverpool looked very slick going forward, Salah had 2 or 3 reasonable chances, Firmino missed a good chance (good save actually iirc), Mane had an excellent game - unlucky not to score or have a hatful of assists.

As it stands - if you don't have cover and can afford it I'd go for Mane. Salah may take a few games to get fully up to speed.

- The defence is an absolute omnishambles - TAA will probably get a lot of attention due to his goal but his general defending was poor and he actually butchered a few attacks as well. Harsh perhaps on an 18 year old I know but Liverpool will keep feck all clean sheets this season the way it's looking.

TAA might be worth a punt at 4.5m but I wouldn't be counting on him getting regular 6 pointers

PARlance · 16-08-2017 11:27am

I'm only TAA'ing for a price rise. I would fancy myself to score against Liverpool from a set piece. I think I'll be doubling up on attack though come WC.

PVA · 17-08-2017 3:37pm

Only Everton playing tonight then?

Scorpion Sting · 17-08-2017 6:57pm

Everton: Pickford, Martina, Williams, Keane, Baines, Schneiderlin, Gueye, Klaassen, Mirallas, Lookman, Rooney

Subs: Stekelenburg, Holgate, Jagielka, Bešić, Davies, Lennon, Calvert-Lewin

2017/18 Preseason, European Cups, Domestic Cups and Internationals thread

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