Bar new injuries I can see us lining up as follows:
BECKER
TAA
MATIP
VvD
TSIMIKAS
SZOBO
MAC ALLISTER
GRAVENBERCH
SALAH
NUNEZ
JOTA
Question mark over Macca and Nunez due to their intercontinental travelling, but Endo will travel from Japan and Gapko is (probably still) injured.
Hopefully this will be enough to smash Everton and we can start a new run of victories. 10/12 points from the next four league games looks achievable and would keep us at the very top of the table before we play Man City🤞
It’s a worry isn’t it, those short arms giving him an excuse for taking ages to pick the ball out of the back of the net.
I am sure that’s why the ref gave nothing when hen went feet first into VVD thinking ‘well with such short arms what else could he have done to try and get the ball’.
It’s blatant cheating!!!
Early kick off, again, is frustrating. Everton have found a bit better form lately, and they usually up their game against us too. They also get stuck in, and then some, often dishing injuries out with barely any objection from the officials.
We have injuries and an unjust suspension, plus several first teamers flying back long distance to make the early kick off.
There are a long list of ‘excuses’ already built in, and a team with less backbone would happily use that to justify a flat day. As such, this is a test of the newly emerging mentality monsters.
Trent played some 6 in preseason (to mixed results) but maybe it’s an option for this one with MacAllister and Endo having to travel more over the international break. I’d have Nunez and Diaz play only about 45 mins each.
Alisson
Gomez Konate Van Dijk Tsimikas
Szoboszlai TAA Gravenberch
Salah Jota Diaz
Non of us will need reminding of this, but here goes anyway - Pawson was the referee that awarded a penalty against Trent, when he was already on the floor and DCL kneed him in the back of the head, and tumbled over him to win said penalty
Coote was on VAR duty when TRex assaulted VVD…!!!
is not the worst referee there is, they all make mistakes just like players do. The problem is the bias against Liverpool that a lot of them have. IMO Pawson is not one of them.
I think Klopp is going to do something wild. Something like playing Doak or Clark or something like that.
He’ll want to make a point about the unfairness of continually giving us this fixture. And he has a history of massively disrespecting Everton in this fixture.
If our only hiccup in our next 5 league games is the one at City then get back to winning ways against Fulham the week after, losing Gomez or Jones for a month then it’d be anything but the end.
Three points and a dominant display will be perfect. But I will take three points in a gritty display, if it means digging deep in light of yet another early kick off, and all the travel and disruption for many of our players.
