There are times I just want a win. Goal off Mane’s arse in the 92nd minute etc. However given what’s coming and our “need” to play in the CL next season by all and any means, I want to see a fluid and refined performance. A handsome 0-3 victory with no penalties nor questionable decisions. Attacking football creating genuine chances that the front guys put away with aplomb. Really is time we shook off the malaise and started to win. And win well.
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It is always unpleasant for a man of good will to be compelled, even from the best of motives, to blacken the name of a fellow poster, but needs must. The individual of whom I speak, is of course @GermanRed. Why he has chosen not to rescind the fatwa he pronounced upon my habitual anteproelium goes beyond comprehension.
He is evidently a furtive, shifty-eyed man who stifled his conscience at the age of six and would not recognize a scruple if you served it up to him on an individual blue plate with béarnaise sauce.
But given our parlous position in the league some things just have to be said, irrespective of offending delicate sensibilities, his in particular, and those of hoi poloi in general.
So while I suppose it might be a social solecism, thither will I go to rehearse my ubiquitous pronouncement:
This is the most important game of the season, well at least it will be until the next one. It’s an absolutely must win game.
So I have done the deed. Didst thou not hear a noise?
Moving swiftly on, when first I mentioned tonight’s scheduled match officials to Boudica, her wrath touched a new high. Her first thought was how agreeable it would be to skin the referee alive with a blunt butter knife. “My tablets ~ Meet it is I set it down that one may smile and smile and be a villain. At least, I’m sure it may be so in Lowton”, I could imagine her saying to herself.
Upon discovering the late change in appointment, she realized that in entertaining the idea of skinning the referee alive with a blunt butter knife she had been too lenient. Not a blunt butter knife, thought the Mem, but some such instrument as the one described by the poet Gilbert as looking far less like a hatchet than a dissipated saw.
Boudica, several degrees below zero at the outset, became even more like that of a snow queen. The hatchet that looked like a dissipated saw would not have seemed to her barely adequate.
All things considered, @GermanRed might consider himself to have got off lightly having only to contend with my remarks. Vindictive, yes, and not at all the sort of thing one approves of hearing from one once aspiring to holy orders, but far less challenging than the Mem’s dissipated saw.
And so, without further ado, the epilogue:
This game has all the makings of a potential banana skin! (well someone had to say it)
I’ll take a scrappy 1-0 win to us. 
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Makes more sense for Robertson as captain to play all the games for Scotland than keeping Gini on against Gilbrator.
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Thought i was having a good day today. Youth team this afternoon, first team tonight and due to restrictions I would get out of taking the wife out to celebrate our 56th Anniversary.
Then I got a puncture on my way home from shopping and no spare. Have to call my insurance. Fat chance on a Saturday afternoon especially Easter Saturday.
Ah well onward and upward.
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Going on Chelsea result its strongest team possible great chance to close ground.
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Anyone know what our strongest CM is, especially considering Gini hasn’t had any rest.
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Ali, Trent, Nat, Kab, Kostas, Fab, Thiago, Curtis, Mo, Dio, Sadio
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Can somebody translate please. 
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Didn’t you used to call them by names.
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Nice to see all the lads back from the break unscathed.
Several squad players got some minutes with their nations, which is good, only Gini and Robbo were used a touch too much for LFC’s benefit.
Top 4 is still a long shot, despite Chelsea’s result, but we will definitely only have a chance if we win nearly every one of our own matches. With the other contenders still to play a lot against each other, it’s important we keep winning.
Let’s hope Nat Phillips puts in a run of commanding performances at the heart of the defence, our forwards find their top form, and the midfielders remain fit enough to rotate a bit and keep the energy and quality in there.
All the best to all at the club for the next few crucial weeks.
Oh and Happy Easter to all on here.
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@Lowton_Red 's wife is a scary individual you should never cross and we’re going to win 0-1.
Oh, and he doesn’t like you.
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Isn’t that a gold-coloured dildo? 
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Alisson
TAA Phillips Kabak Robertson
Fabinho Wijnaldum
Salah Firmino Jota Mané
TAA Phillips Kabak Robertson
Fabinho Wijnaldum
Salah Firmino Jota Mané
Don’t care about the formation. Flexible Front4.
I see we have, hear no, see no, and I know f**k all in the clown cupboard today…just hope Sian doesn’t crumble…
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I must be anti-Dutch then because I say the same about de Boer how het treats Wijnaldum.
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Want to see Tmikas start today. Robbo has played too much lately and looks like he needs a rest.
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Well Chelsea have bottled it today
Let’s see how much our lads want it
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2 points off top 4 if we win isn’t it?
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Liverpool make two changes tonight at Emirates Stadium as Roberto Firmino returns from injury and James Milner comes into the XI. Diogo Jota and Gini Wijnaldum are the players to make way, with both on the bench.
Liverpool: Alisson, Alexander-Arnold, Phillips, Kabak, Robertson, Fabinho, Thiago, Milner, Mane, Salah, Firmino.
Subs: Adrian, Wijnaldum, Keita, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Jones, Jota, Tsimikas, Shaqiri, R. Williams.
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