Pre Match. Liverpool vs Villarreal. CL Group Stage Match 3. Tues 20th 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:

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I think JJ needs a rest, looks like he has had a few niggles, so rest for him, Joe And Araujo CB’s, anyone can guess who the RB will be maybe Mc Connell?

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Please post the officials as soon as you know them for this match.
I’m sick of England!

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According to the UEFA website, it’s all Polish officials:

Referee: Szymon Marciniak POL
Assistant referees: Tomasz Listkiewicz POL, Adam Kupsik POL
4th official: Wojciech Myc POL
VAR: Piotr Lasyk POL
Asst VAR: Benjamin Brand GER

Edit: Added VAR and (Geman) Assistant VAR.

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I’m sure that Andoni and his team will know the personnel, tactics and formation to see us through this game. (As long as the Ref isn’t a cheating ****).

COYR YNWA :+1: :nerd_face:

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Yeah , id agree. Let jacquet get a rest.

I’d actually play joe for 70 min and get chambers or someone to see the last 20 if we are in a relatively comfortable position. Joe needs some game time before his inevitable injury.

Frimpong araujo joe tsimikas
Nyoni. Gravenberch
Munoz mcconnell. Rio
Koumas

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We can ring in the substitutions at 60 minutes if needed.

But we need to see these group stage CL as what they are , filler at this stage.

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We’ve got a spanish coach and 2 players in araujo and munoz who know how villareal play. Enough to get them going.

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Thanks straight after the Brentford match I tried finding out however was told by internet they hadn’t yet been divulged. I’ll verify your information and get round to getting rid of England. :slightly_smiling_face:

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Done, a bald one!
Piotr Lasyk Poland is the assistant on VAR.
You never know what your going to get with Polish officials.
Btw my avatar is the ref not the VAR.

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Frimpong is injured?

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Non-contact muscular injury after 5 minutes against Brentford. The way he was moving off the pitch, I suspect he’ll be out a while.

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Damn. Means we have to make do with another as RB

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As per last game I will suggest adding a caveat for the ref.

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I used to play with Villarreal in FIFA10