A huge, huge, humongous game between two European elites. Oh fuck, who am I kidding, it’s the deadest of the dead rubbers. Milan is currently top of the Italian League, it may mean they are a resurgent side or it may mean the league is garbage, probably somewhere in between, you decide.
For us, the priorities for this game are
No freaking injuries
Minutes for the fringe players
Bagging the £ 2.5 mil
Klopp will definitely field a strong XI but that doesn’t necessarily have to include the key players. Kelleher must definitely start. If he isn’t starting in games like this, one has to question the wisdom of keeping him. Also, no Jota. I’m not a superstitious man, but playing him in a dead rubber gives me uneasy.
Keita and Gomez are both back in full training. Would’ve been great to hear Bobby is back too. Any word on him? This game would’ve been prefect to start to get him back up to speed. Jones still out I think.
Sadly Gordon wasn’t registered/eligible for Champions league.
I honestly see zero point in any of yesterday’s starting eleven even traveling, never mind playing. What an opportunity to have a week at home fully focused on training and preparing properly for next Saturday!
No need to risk any of our first 11 that started yesterday, shame Milner is suspended I know we get 2.4 million if we win but its more important to protect players for the rest of the league games and CL games.
Why not play Kelleher? Klopp was praising him last week and surely he needs to be kept fresh and interested. It also lessens the chance of an injury to Ali of course.
