16/17 Premier League Fixtures

Mane as well if we get him but I thought Matip has had a falling out with the National manager, or not been selected for the recent fixtures.

Did not know this, let's hope they never kiss and make up then

Did not know this, let's hope they never kiss and make up then

http://www.insidefutbol.com/2016/03/14/its-better-joel-matip-stays-at-home-cameroon-coach-reveals-conversation-with-defender/275626/

African nations cup during these games. I believe Matip will be our only participant.

The players usually miss a game or two before the tournament too as they have warm up games and training camp.

Just been looking and last season we only played 6 of our 38 games at 3pm.

And that's not just because of European involvement.  Going back to 13-14 our last season with no European football - we only played 8 games at 3pm.

In other words - take the fixture list as an indication of approximately when our games will be!

Difficult start ...

BUT ...

after the derby on Apr 1, thats not a bad run in ...

We never get anything from Arsenal away, so i'm happy with first match against them...We will be prepared.

No excuses, Rodgers final season we had a difficult start,I hope Klopp understands now what it takes to launch us back on top... 

The early the difficult games for us the better in my opinion, no pissing about just take the points from our rivals early on...

A win against Arsenal away in the first game could be our catalyst.

The start is a challenge but a challenge we will rise to, if we have a decent number of points after our first 6 games then it can really act as a springboard for the rest of the season.

The run in looks very good for us.

LFC have written to Burnley to ask if they can 'swap' the game on the 20th August - ie. so we would play at their ground.

Making our first home game 10th September.

Just postpone the fixture, job done. It's not like either club is short of dates to rearrange it.

Alternatively, play it on the Monday night that week, and be the last club to start it's home games, like last season.

I think we play Leicester and Man United before they have their European games during the week. I doubt United will rotate too much but Leicester will.

Would have preferred an easier start myself. Klopp has already said that he may not even play some of our players in the early games if they have been involved in the Euros.

I think there is a chance that the hard conditioning work may leave our players a little "leggy" early on too.

Better imo if we played the bigger teams when they have the distractions of Europe.

A good start is important and can set the stage for a title challenge if we get on a roll. So I'm not thrilled with the early fixtures, but the glass is always half empty for me these days.  

Ah F**k it! If we're gonna win this league it doesn't matter who we have to play and when, we need to win every single game from August to May... and with no distractions in Europe this HAS to be the season we go for it!

Bring it on!

 

Exactly, no excuses 

Bring Em On.

Big or small doesn't matter.

We have to win more games than anyone else.

Like 6stringer I'm not bothered, we have to (beat) play everyone anyhoo, I'm confident we will get off to a good start, by the time the gooners game arrives Klopp will have us full of confidence and chomping,

When we hit the ground running it will boost confidence and will give us momentum and of course that winning mentality, with no euro footie, our players will be forever fresh and hopefully injury free, it's a marathon not a sprint so somewhere we will more than likely hit a rough patch, this is June 15th 2016, I'm saying this now so I can refer back to it towards the end of the season, we will win our least 9 games, if fixtures stay as they are, that's 27 points, that's a league winning run right there,

Just saying like   




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Tough start that. Hopefully our Euros lads get knocked out early and not many get picked for the Olympics.

Run in looks good though, would fancy us to go on a good winning run there if we have our key players fit.

August

13 – Arsenal (A)
20 – Burnley (H)
27 – Tottenham Hotspur (A)

September

10 – Leicester City (H)
17 – Chelsea (A)
24 – Hull City (H)

October

1 – Swansea City (A)
15 – Manchester United (H)
22 – West Bromwich Albion (H)
29 – Crystal Palace (A)

Pretty tough opening 10 matches there, but I suppose it will be good to get road trips to Arsenal, Tottenham and Chelsea out of the way so early in the season.

The lads get 4 weeks after their last International game so if we're out on Monday they'll be back on 18th July.  Can't see us winning tomorrow so the Slovakia game is irrelevant.

There's only Can who might be late back out of our regular starters, with possibly Migs, Origi and Benteke back somewhere in between.

There will be lots of changes to those fixtures as the season progresses so taking it all with a pinch of salt really, my season ticket will enable me to be at all the home games though and hopefully I'll be lucky enough to get to half a dozen or so away games too 

Like Debs said, it doesn't matter who we play and when as you have to play everyone twice, tough start but it will be a challenge and hopefully we won't be playing catch up by the time we get to the end of September 

Bring it on !!

The lads get 4 weeks after their last International game so if we're out on Monday they'll be back on 18th July.  Can't see us winning tomorrow so the Slovakia game is irrelevant.

There's only Can who might be late back out of our regular starters, with possibly Migs, Origi and Benteke back somewhere in between.

How is the Slovakia game irrelevant? I thought that the third place team qualifies as well?

How is the Slovakia game irrelevant? I thought that the third place team qualifies as well?

Really?  Shows how much notice I take of Internationals.  When and why did this happen then is it like a play off against other 3rd places?

Really?  Shows how much notice I take of Internationals.  When and why did this happen then is it like a play off against other 3rd places?

4 3rd place teams with the most points go through.