58’ Harvey ELLIOT on, Naby KEITA off 58’ Luis DIAZ on, Curtis JONES off 70’ James MILNER on, Takumi MINAMINO off 70’ Andrew ROBERTSON on, Kostas TSIMIKAS off 78’ Thiago ALCANTARA on, Jordan HENDERSON off
53’ Diogo JOTA (Assist Trent ALEXANDER-ARNOLD) 68’ Takumi MINAMINO (Assist Luiz DIAZ) 76’ Harvey ELLIOT (Assist Andrew ROBERTSON)
I’m probably way off, but Elliott seems to have gone from a boy to a man during his time off, and I can see him coming back into the midfield 3 on a permanent basis. Certainly prefer him as an option to Hendo or Milner at the moment.
Elliott is the story here. What a return and what a difference he made and will make. He’s going to be some player for us. Diaz didn’t look bad either, did he?
I didn’t see the game but job done considering what happened Friday and our well known rustiness plus the fact we finally got to see Diaz and Elliott was back with a goal, all in all a good afternoon.
Won’t belabor the point of the tone of match thread in the first half but I was a little surprised by how negative it was before our boys ever got their legs going. This was never in doubt.
I was just excited to have the boys finally back. These past 2 weeks seemed an eternity. I was happy to finally see them again.
Glad the boys will now enter a period of a match every few days. We have a full squad (for once) and the opportunity to develop a rhythm.
My overwhelming feeling right now is relief, that Elliott is back and settled the nerves with his first Liverpool goal, and relief seeing Diaz get up after him clutching his knee.