It’s a 3pm Saturday kick off so won’t be on the telly for UK viewers. I’d suspect that we will be nearer to last season’s 3:1 victory than the previous year’s 9:0.
Bournemouth are middling so far this this season with draws against Forest and Newcastle, a loss to Chelsea, and a comical victory against Everton.
The press conference is Friday at 9am:
It will be interesting to see how Slot approaches his team selection following a European game. The next game is on Wednesday in the League Cup so I would ecpect him to rotate there if needed. We will see.
I expect a strong line up again. We played Tuesday evening, so the players will have had 3 full days rest - save the heavy rotation for the West Ham cup game midweek, and have them all ready for Wolves away the week after.
Robbo and Diaz back in from the start. Everything else as was, unless required due to a fitness issue.
Gakpo played really well against AC Milan, but you’d not want to leave Diaz out again realistically. Maybe Slot mixes it up and gives Nunez a go from the start, but I’d leave that for the cup game
Let’s just hope the fans make a bit of noise for a change because so far this season the atmosphere has been pretty poor.
Slot must wonder what all the hype was about, Anfield isn’t a patch on what he’s used to at feyenoord!
Yep. But Gakpo had also played two 90 min matches for his national side last week and put in a shift on Tues too, not that he can replace either of them. Endo starts against West Ham forsure, along with Jones so that pair get the rest.
Basically everyone will need managing…but Slot and his staff are supposedly good at that part.
To be perfectly honest, the Alisson news was the only thing of interest. Half the time, I think the coaches could stick their dogs in front of the camera and you would get more insight!
