Once more with feeling.
If Kabak is fit he is only change for Rhys. Tough on Rhys but Kabak is a bit pacier.
Sadio has another day on bench, bit of humility required after his strop tonight.
A win here makes the last week a real cliffhanger at the end of a lousy bad season.
Biggest game of the season, the equivalent of a cup final for us. Throw every cliche in the book at this one, we need to be fully motivated. None of the permutations on the other threads matter unless we win.
Mane and Ozan to start if the latter is fit. Mane will be on fire and full of energy.
They will park the bus. We score first and will open them up. 0-3 Reds
This one is about scoring and preferably early and then hitting them again as they open up.
It’s the reason why we didn’t win in December on the start at that horrible run. Maybe the stars align and this is kind of the end of that period. Though the way we played last night for 50-60 minutes would suggest it’s passed.
They tried to sit back against Arsenal but they hit them twice quickly and they never were able to fully get back into it and this was after Arsenal had slipped out of Europe and were looking shambolic not the Arsenal that beat Chelsea last week
Yup, I’m glad Klopp stuck with that even though his temptation must have been to drop Fabinho back. I assume Milner would have been a reasoning not to but now I think he recognises he has to play Fabinho in MF.
To me it adds a third defender at times allowing Robbo and TAA to push without leaving as many gaps. Where I think you lose that if you drop him back.
If you had Hendo available then I think you have the option but without Hendo you need to have Fabinho in the middle, I also think it’s improved Thiago.