Liverpool FC Team Talk, Gossip, Rumours 2020/2021

Enzokk wrote: »

There is no space to play Villa if they cannot play tomorrow. They have a game midweek and in all the slots until the 4th round, our calendar is packed so play any team that is fit or forfeit. I am absolutely gutted it has happened to Villa.;)

You sure? Not like they haven;t said play two games in two days before...

~Rebel~ wrote: »

Yeah, a few lads could do with time on the field alright. Love to play Phillips and R Williams at the back together - the more time they get to play the better. Kelleher, Shaq, Ox, Minamino, Neco, and Origi could all really do with minutes too. Would be nice to give Thiago another 30 as well, and maybe another start for Clarkson. Millie fills in at LB, and one of the more regular lads in CM to round it out - probably Curtis.

It shouldn't go ahead - the FA Cup in general shouldn't go ahead. But if we have to be in the competition, I hope we get to play tomorrow instead of trying to cram it in elsewhere in the calendar.

I guess we will only know once we play again, but if we had a break now for 2 weeks to get well rested and some more fitness for the squad it could pay off later in the season. It all comes down to our results, if we lose it's bad, if we win then it was just what we needed. There is no way to know right now if this will be good or bad.

Can't understand how some supporters are happy to just drop out of the FA Cup, it's another trophy we can win, which we haven't won in a long time and with our form the way it is, it might represent our best chance of silverware at the end of the season. We had a great chance last year to win it, the league was already in the bag, but the performance against Chelsea was so poor it looked like they weren't bothered by it, a week or so later we were out of Europe and essentially had nothing to play for when we came back after the lockdown.

Which is ludicrous. If they leave it until the day of the game to decide it should be a decision only between "play it or forfeit it". The league will soon be in a position it will have to do that too if more games get cancelled with nowhere in the calendar to play them.

.G. wrote: »

Which is ludicrous. If they leave it until the day of the game to decide it should be a decision only between "play it or forfeit it". The league will soon be in a position it will have to do that too if more games get cancelled with nowhere in the calendar to play them.

They have to play spurs in less than a week too - what happens to that game if they still have postive cases?

We've actually had a lighter schedule over Christmas than normal seasons, in the CL games we can play 5 subs, plus in the Midtijylland game, Klopp could easily have went with a weaker team and made changes sooner to reduce the risk of injury, even in the Palace game was there really a need to bring on Salah with the game already won!
We have been unlucky with injuries, yet the use of substitutions has been poor in my opinion, leaving it very late in games before making any changes, this means that it's the same 12/13 players playing all the time, with some players like Minamino who have been available most of the season rarely playing when they could be used earlier in matches to give players a rest. It's small things like that which add up. Blaming the schedule is only an excuse, it's the same for all our main rivals.

Girly Gal wrote: »

Can't understand how some supporters are happy to just drop out of the FA Cup, it's another trophy we can win, which we haven't won in a long time and with our form the way it is, it might represent our best chance of silverware at the end of the season. We had a great chance last year to win it, the league was already in the bag, but the performance against Chelsea was so poor it looked like they weren't bothered by it, a week or so later we were out of Europe and essentially had nothing to play for when we came back after the lockdown.

Well this year the squad is hanging by a thread but we still have a good chance of winning the champions league and the league.
The ya cup is not worth the effort for the prize money

Fitz* wrote: »

Dean Smith & the Villa first team will be absent form the game tomorrow.

Villa will play their u23s and Mark Delaney will manage the team, if enough of them test negative.

So if Villa have 14 negatives, they play is what I take from that.

I hope our players don't celebrate like the Villa guys did last season when they beat our kids.

TitianGerm wrote: »

I hope our players don't celebrate like the Villa guys did last season when they beat our kids.

They way we're playing lately, beating their kids isn't a given!

If we're playing the Villa kids then our team should be:

Kelleher
Williams - Williams - Phillips -Milner
Ox - Thiago (for match fitness) - Jones
Shaqiri - Minamino - Origi

Enough to win the game early and get Thiago off

facehugger99 wrote: »

Strange that Paddy Power do not appear to be listing the Villa v Liverpool fixture on their website - at least not that I can see.

Do they know something we don't?

I guess they have removed it as the teams that will be picked will make a massive difference to the odds and they have no idea what team will be available. Everything changes now as our team may change as well....just better for them to not offer odds until more information is available.

TitianGerm wrote: »

I hope our players don't celebrate like the Villa guys did last season when they beat our kids.

ShamoBuc wrote: »

I remember seeing their celebrations and thinking that shows the level of those players, completely ott.
Our goals should be celebrated, yes, but with a bit more respect hopefully, all 8 of them.

I think yous are being a bit delicate here tbh, they scored goals and celebrated them, pretty standard stuff. They hardly have time to think what level of celebration can I perform here that will have enough respect for my opponents. Not like Liverpool will be expected to just give a gentlemanly handshake to each other if they score tonight.