Pre Match. Liverpool vs Villarreal. CL Group Stage Match 3. Tues 18th October. 2000hrs

The Albert Match Days
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Szoboszlai, Frimpong will obviously miss this. Add to Bradley, Leoni and Ekitike. Gakpo on the bench vs Brentford is encouraging though.

Araujo, Jacquet, VVD and Kerkez
Gravenberch and MacAllister, Wirtz further forward.
Munoz, Isak and Barcola.

Fairly obvious?
Cody to get minutes, Nyoni and Koumas as well.

Three points and no drama.

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With the new format and having won our first two champions league games, we can probably rotate a fair amount here (and we probably should).

Marmadashivili
Araujo Gomez Van Dijk Tsimikas
Nyoni Gravenberch
Muñoz McConnell Rio
Koumas

Jaquet, Barcola, Isak, Gakpo, Wirtz all to come on second half.

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Any risks shouldn’t play.

We’ve swapped three injuries for 2 and probably have lost lesser players for better still rather we had them as it might be a while now for both.

Bonus is we don’t travel now for four games, Brighton will be heading out to Chechia on Thursday so…

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Start the same team as we did against Lask…
Only exception is gomez for frimpong. And isak for koumas.

  • Sit Virgil again as we need to show less dependency on him. He may not be here next season
  • Grav and Nyoni looked good together. Want to see if its real.
  • tsimikas is looking better than kerkez recently
  • Rio must start again after good showing last CL match.
  • Barcola and Wirtz seem to love playing in CL. Hoping they come out gun blazing again.
  • We want to Keep Isak on fire up front.
  • Lastly Gakpo and Munoz to come on for Barcola and Rio for final 20 mins to keep them sharp and ready for Brighton.
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We’ll be there for this one, up close and personal. I’m bringing a 100% home win success for the CL guys so no need to worry about a thing.

Be going with a mixed team for this one with one eye on Brighton.

Mamardash
Gomez Araujo Jacquet Tsimikas
Nyoni Grav
Koumas Wirtz Barcola
Isak

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Chalk that as a loss then :wink: