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Im not saying we won't wobble, but there's a huge difference injury wise with where the squad was this time last year. We have very few injuries to key players of any major concerns at the moment (touch wood).

This time last year, Szobo, Trent, Konate, Allison, Salah, Jota, Roberton and Diaz were either injuried, or just back from injuries and struggling massively for form on the back of them.

I actually don't know what I meant now looking at it, I was taking stats from here (https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/premier-league/formtabelle/wettbewerb/GB1?saison_id=2024&min=1&max=38) but I must have read something wrong lol, I've issued a correction on the post don't worry. The rest of my point remains however!! 😂

Villa have a negative goal difference, they aren’t some unbelievable team. City have been awful and will be playing them on the back of being dumped out of Europe. zero points is not on the card from two games. We have lost 1 in 25 ffs.

Apologise i didn't mean players won't struggle for form regardless. I meant that last season, pretty much every player that came back from injury was absolutely woeful for a period. There's was calls on here from people that didn't want to see Salah on the pitch for the remainder of the year, and that Elliot should be first choice.

I do think last season, now looking back in hindsight, that players were rushed back. With everything that was on the line and Klopps last few months. Decisions were badly made.

We are looking a little bit tired alright. We were fine in the first half but looked a bit nervous in the second, thankfully Slot made the right call and brought Endo on who made a huge difference.

Would love to give Grav a bit of a rest but I doubt we’ll see it over the next couple of weeks, the only league game I would imagine we’ll see any significant changes is probably Southampton on the 8th March.

But Arsenal have some big games coming up and are very light up top - they just about managed to win a game they were heavy favourites for at the weekend, I’d be very surprised to see them go on a run.

It’s a big couple of weeks but even with the worst outcome nothing will be close to decided by it.

Yeah I still wouldn't consider either of those as robbery. The free kick wasn't a free kick, but it's not like it was on the edge of the box either, you win some and lose some with those decisions

And kind of same with the Konaté foul, that one I think is one of those that VAR doesn't overturn either way. If ref said it was a foul VAR wouldn't be saying no, and he said it wasn't a foul and I don't think there was enough for VAR to say that it was an egregious mistake

In addition, we benefitted from a similar challenge yesterday on Díaz that VAR didn't overturn.

Again I'm not trying to excuse the ref, I'm agreeing that he made a lot of bad calls. But I don't think it meets the threshold of being robbed as we still had it in our control to defend both of those situations better.

Some massive calls for Wednesday.

Id give serious thought to resting at least one of the midfield 3, bring Kostas in and maybe even Bradley.

Up top I don't know what we can do unless Gakpo is fit. It would have to be the same 3 again unless you start Nunez but even not playing well Diaz got a goal and won a peno.

You could always put Nunez or Jota on the left and keep the other up front.

Lets not forget that Arsenal are on a 15 game unbeaten run in the lg at moment so they could be due a blip too. It all depends who blips the worst!

I don't want to say he doesn't need replacing, but surely the fact that we're top of the league with him starting most games shows that despite his decline and his limitations he can still do a job for us.

Yup, he's not going anywhere. We just need someone in who will play more games than him at LB next season.

Slot mentioned this in his press conference, how we have maintained a 7pt lead even though they are unbeaten in 15, that is so impressive.

Yesterday was an odd match as Salah was inches offside to make it 3 whilst Jota should have stayed on his feet to make it 3, if that happened we could have gone on to win by 4 or 5 & it would be called a statement win:)

At this stage, it is all about pts & only Arsenal can catch up, we just need to match them as much as possible.

Yes Villa & City away are going to be tough but neither are playing well, don't think one good win for City means that they have turned a corner.

After those 2 games; we have 5 of the next 7 games at home [Newcastle, Southampton, Everton, West Ham & Spurs] with Leicester & Fulham away.

The Fulham away match is the hardest one and we should get a good few wins from those games.

4pts from the next 2, beat Newcastle & Southampton at home & then enjoy a 25 day break in the league.

We also play our next 4 games & in the same time Arsenal only have 2 games; if we are a little more optimistic we could be 13pts clear on March 8th having played 2 more games.

I imagine we freshen things up for Wednesday night. I expect Kostas, Jones and Nunez to come in. Can't see Jota playing 2 games in a row, Robbo definitely can't play 3 games in a week, Jones probably would have played yesterday if not suspended. I expect him to replace MacAllister and then he will come on at some point for Grav or Dominik.

We got very nervy yesterday at 2-1 probably afraid after what happened in mid-week. The fact that we held out hopefully will give us confidence that we can hold out in tricky close games from now on.

When you decline from such a high level its always more stark. Hes probably still one of the best in the league, and calls for Tsimi starting ahead of him are ridiculous, even a declining Robbo is better than him on his best day. A new fresh starting LB will be needed in the summer but I hope Robbo stays, can still more than do a job.

Was at the match yesterday , second half was absolute torture, After Diaz went off for Endo we offered nothing going forward and just invited them on, was convinced Wolves were going to equalise and most of the ground felt that way as well which fed onto the players. He hasn't had a great season, but to be fair to Quansah he made a vital tackle to prevent a certain tap in, He done very well when he came on which should do his confidence the world of good.

One thing was stark for me yesterday from being at the game, Seems Nunez has lost a lot of the match going supporters which was very surprising because last home match I was at they were singing his name non-stop, I was in the Kop and everyone around me was giving out when he came on and groaning whenever he gave the ball away etc. Had a few conversations about him in the pub afterwards , general consensus from majority i spoke to, is he's not good enough despite the late goals against Brentford and should have been shipped out in January.

Id respectfully disagree, Im of the long term opinion that he hasnt been good enough for some time and i think this opinion is widely shared amongst the majority of non match day going fans, whereas ive had discussions with plenty of scousers over the last few years that he's a "chaos merchant" and just because he wasnt racking up salah like numbers didnt mean he's not influencing gamer or isnt good enough for Liverpool. Ive been at matches where he's been offside 5 or 6 times in a row yet his name was still loudly sang and he was rarely criticised, yesterday that wasnt the case the fans were on his back big time whenever he gave the ball away.