Of the 5, Ibou and Virgil are critical. But this should not deter them from going in hard on PSG.
Yeah, PSG certainly won’t let us sit on our arses like Southampton, even if Southampton’s game has a % of risk. It’s simple, even if our plan is again to be a bit more pragmatic than them (I think Virgil said the plan was to drop our lines a bit in Paris, I presume mid-block and not as deep as we were pinned back), we’ll have to raise our performance in almost all aspects of the game.
It’s part of being a Liverpool fan to fear the worst and underneath think we will win! We are too humble to expect but always filled with hope.
Massive game tonight…
Fuck all discussion on a Liverpool forum?
I suppose 28 posts on the Mancs new shit hole stadium is more important …
Anyway, lest we forget.
Need to be at this from the get go. I reckon Cody won’t start. Maybe the same starting eleven as we saw vs City? In some ways the chaos of Darwin would annoy them a bit. Not sure if Arne would start him though.
This is just another massive match, Anfield will be buzzing.
A much more important place than a monument to global capitalism in Manc land. Built on saving sandwiches from poorer paid workers.
Anfield is built on history and passion.
Yeah, it feels like one of these massive, massive games… I wonder how the build-up is in Liverpool? Fans on the streets already? The atmosphere could be terrific tonight!
Again all has been said that will be said, it’s why an hour build up or more for games is as pointless.
I am confident Slot will come up with another tactical ace card to surprise PSG. His intelligence is on another level.
I respectfully disagree.
The in match thread will run into hundreds of posts, many fair critique, many slating the obvious players unnecessarily. With a smattering of comedy and other weak attempts at comedy.
Discussion on the match beforehand sets the mood. Gets us in the area of thinking. Stops us discussing Man Utd, Donalt Trump, X, korma and who we might buy to make next season better than the dream we are currently experiencing.
I remember pre match threads being a hive of discussion and nerves and superstition.
I think that this comes from us being so good this season. There is an unanimous agreement that we are freaking good and can beat anyone placed in front of us. That isn’t very good for creating long pre-match threads. 
Part of the problem is that we only played them six days ago, so not much has changed. Also, it was such a tense watch that quite a few of us haven’t got our nerves back.
I’m sure it will liven up when everyone has had their bowl of korma.
Stop it, now I want some.
I think it’s pretty much this.
There’s no real sense of jeopardy at the moment, because we’ve managed to get through what could have been a real disaster – a transition of so many major components of the backroom, to somehow be miles ahead in the league. It’s almost as though the Champions League is just a bonus rather than a necessity.
In past seasons, we were either firmly the underdogs (2017-18, 2018-19, 2023-24), had the mental burden of a long wait (2019-20), had everything go wrong (2020-21, 2022-23), were firmly in a close fight (2021-22), so there was a lot more pressure.
Now? The league is essentially won, we have a narrow lead against PSG, and results-wise, we have been nigh-on untouchable in the Champions League this season. As long as it’s not Nuno’s Forest we’re facing, where’s the jeopardy?
There’s also no news coming through, so what’s there to discuss? We can laugh at United, worry about geopolitical events, but in terms of this game, there’s literally no reason for there to be much activity in this thread until around 1845Z.
And we should be thankful for that, and not addicted to that drama.
So?
Do we open pre match threads 75 minutes before kick off in future?
Because there is nothing of note to discuss?
What does it really matter?
I think this pre-match thread is a bit of an oddity, in so much that last weeks post-match thread was discussing, and included lots for tonight’s game plan…
For an important CL game though… previous threads have been busier than this one… Seems the bigger the gap between the return game, the more the tension and buzz increases towards kick-off… Unless of course, we are all learning a thing from AS and his cool dude demeanour :0)
Yes, iftar (sunset) is at 6:12pm today, Liverpool time:smiley: So, Mo will be up and running 
Its a good job it isn’t end of the month when the clocks go forward otherwise it would have been 7:12pm.
Only to be expected I suppose - They were like this last time
Hannover Street has been flooded by PSG fans
Many of the French fans have now gathered outside O’Neills on Hanover Street. The surrounding pubs and bars are equally as busy
Tbh, i am apprehensive about this match. PSG are a much better organised team than the last few years.
They will give it their all. To me it feels like we are going into the match as a 0-0.
Here’s a very good read to kill another ten minutes to kick off.
And in case anyone else was wondering how we’ve gone from having half a team available to fielding the same eleven nearly every week , there’s this ;
“Edwards, helped in part by his stint with Ludonautics, ensured the data model the club used to identify a suitable new head coach was upgraded and future-proofed. The different metrics covered playing style to injury prevention, outperforming resources and how current personnel might improve under a particular manager.”