Back to the League grindstone and an Anfield kickoff at 3pm. Old school!
Burnley are in pretty miserable form so this is one that we would be expected to win.
Mo Salah will still be at AFCON as he has a 3rd place playoff on Saturday.
Match officials:
Referee: Andy Madley.
Assistants: Lee Betts, Marc Perry.
Fourth official: Adam Herczeg.
VAR: Michael Salisbury.
Assistant VAR: Dan Robathan.
I may miss this one as I am away this weekend and I have no idea if our chalet has interweb access.
Most important match of the season!
I’d like us to keep a clean sheet and show some attacking prowess.
I’m sure that Arne and his team will know the personnel, formation and tactics to see us through this game. COYR YNWA 
Arne Slot pre-match press conference will be on Friday 16.01.2026 at 09:00 GMT:
https://www.youtube.com/live/sWUHCq4dFaA?si=y5ACz2NuCkmSqyFn
Number 19 in the Premier League, we have some striker problems, but we should win this by four goals.
Game at their place was as one-sided as you’ll ever see but it still took an injury time penalty to break them.
I expect Saturday to be the same, but don’t see them being able to keep us out so easily. 2-0 to the Reds is my prediction.
I’m pushing it but I reckon 3-1 with Hugo and Flo both on the scoresheet and an assist for Flo too. Gakkers or Dom with the other. Still think we are about the turn the corner.
Misheard and mistyped details of the press conference:
TLDR: Game of small margins. Quad fit aside from long term injuries. We play Burnley 3pm tomorrow.
I don’t get this ‘getting fitter’ bit. Might as well say they’re getting fatter!
He says it pretty much every week. And then we see players who are pooped after 60 minutes of walking about.
Yep and in any case fitness should have been assessed and developed during pre season. It’s far too late now.
If he means match fitness then sure due to his lack of rotation those that sit on the bench are never going to be ‘match’ fit. Just look at Endo if he gets 5 minutes noone should claim he’s not a capable substitute as there’s noway he can be match fit.
Moan about his comments and then set overly ambitious targets such as winning by 4 goals, we haven’t beaten anyone by 4 goals and don’t look like doing so.
No wonder its such a let down.
F*ck me, that Hungarian journalist is seriously annoying with his questions. I know language with them can be a big barrier, but still, you should find someone competent.
He gets regular opportunities for questions and I understand basically all he wants to talk about is Liverpool’s Hungarian players. That’s his job, why he’s there every time. But then goes on to ask total stupid, childish stuff like:
What a waste of time.
I remember it was similar when a few Croatian players (Pletikosa, Corluka, Modric and Kranjcar) were at Tottenham and suddenly we always had a Croatian journalist at press-conferences. It was called Crottenham. Often asking some similarly stupid questions, just to fill void and because we’re a small but proud country, we have to know the count every fart they had during the week.
No wonder head coaches get exhausted giving who knows what amount of interviews. For the level of interest the public has in the game, you’d expect over time better questions as well, at least from some part (I know a lot of it is simply directed to them). It’s not the worst really, because you get uglier stuff. But I bet this can really drain energy in the long term.
Will be interesting what we go for tomorrow, especially between the lines.
Assuming that Frimpong starts at RB (we’ll see if he makes that position his own mostly from now on until the end of the season).
We had different combinations there in last weeks and months. Sometimes two wingers, sometimes one winger and one extra attacking midfielder off the sides, sometimes without wingers. Mac playing deeper or higher, Jones playing deeper or higher.
Since it’s Burnley at home and they will likely continue with 5 at the back (we showed certain struggles in a few recent games against that), also with their recent connection, I could see Wirtz behind Ekitike and Szobo probably on the right to offer balance.
Frankfurt! 
Slower more like.
Another big struggle where we scrape a 2-1 win.
Definitely Frimpong at RB, or is that a best guess? I could see him and Szoboszlai being quite fluid on the right.
