Pre-Match: Liverpool v Burnley: Premier League (Thu 21st Jan 8pm)

Burnley - currently 4 points from the relegation places.

This surely is a must win 🤷‍♂️

By definition...if one game is called "must win" and we don't win, the next game cannot be called "must win" unless we are admitting that the previous "must win" game wasn't really a "must win" game.

League decider this for us..loose & our hopes to retain get slimmer...

I hope the Boss rolls the dice & puts Philips in defence alongside Henderson or Williams..

Got the get Fabinho back in midfield...

No way on Earth did I expect us to be 6 pts behind Utd in Jan!

League decider this for us..loose & our hopes to retain get slimmer...

I hope the Boss rolls the dice & puts Philips in defence alongside Henderson or Williams..

Got the get Fabinho back in midfield...

Sounds like Matip is ready to go.

Sounds like Matip is ready to go.

Mate there is 14 hours till KO, he may sneeze...don't jinx it hahaahha

Sounds like Matip is ready to go.

🙏🏼

                                                             Alisson
                                              Trent   Matip   Fabinho Robbo
                                                             Hendo
                                               Gini                      Thiago
                                                            Firmino
                                                 Salah                   Mane

                         
To me this team picks itself. You don't have the luxury to "try something new" or "give players a chance". You play your best 11 (that are available) players. If they can't beat Burnley, then you have issues.

Bobby is not the best payer at the moment, he's the worst, by all means have him on the bench, but I would not start him, for me I'd either play Shaq, Minamino or Ox in his place.

                                                             Alisson
                                              Trent   Matip   Fabinho Robbo
                                                             Hendo
                                               Gini                      Thiago
                                                            Firmino
                                                 Salah                   Mane

                         
To me this team picks itself. You don't have the luxury to "try something new" or "give players a chance". You play your best 11 (that are available) players. If they can't beat Burnley, then you have issues.

If you don't make a change or try a different player in this run of form I'm not sure when you do?

That's not even taking into account the sheer run of games we have coming up where we will need to make some changes regardless of form.

Going for a 2 -0 win tonight against Burnley, hope that the lads, have their shooting boots on !

Team will be interesting tonight, will he rotate one of the front 3 to shake it up, salah came of the bench to great effect away at palace. just saying.

No disrespect to Phillips, but if he isn't capable of lining up alongside an accomplished centre half like Joel at home against Burnley he has no place at the club and a replacement needs to be brought in.

If you don't make a change or try a different player in this run of form I'm not sure when you do?

That's not even taking into account the sheer run of games we have coming up where we will need to make some changes regardless of form.

So what happens if you bring Minamino in for Firmino and again we struggle to score the entire game? Then do you bring Firmino on as a sub late and if he can't do something special then what? It just adds to the growing chorus from pundits and some of the support about why Bobby can't score. I just don't see how putting a player on the bench because he's in a bit of a rough patch of form (who isn't on our team?) is how you motivate them to do better. I'm pretty sure that Bobby and Mo and Sadio all want to be scoring and creating chances, for whatever reason it's just not happening, but sitting them on the bench in favor of players that have yet to prove they are going to score doesn't make sense to me. If it was Jota on the bench, then sure, bring him on. But Minamino has been largely ineffective since he's been here. I like the kid, but I fear we have the makings of another Origi only without the big goals.

I think even Klopp will F***ing lose it if we fail to score again tonight

So what happens if you bring Minamino in for Firmino and again we struggle to score the entire game? Then do you bring Firmino on as a sub late and if he can't do something special then what? It just adds to the growing chorus from pundits and some of the support about why Bobby can't score. I just don't see how putting a player on the bench because he's in a bit of a rough patch of form (who isn't on our team?) is how you motivate them to do better. I'm pretty sure that Bobby and Mo and Sadio all want to be scoring and creating chances, for whatever reason it's just not happening, but sitting them on the bench in favor of players that have yet to prove they are going to score doesn't make sense to me. If it was Jota on the bench, then sure, bring him on. But Minamino has been largely ineffective since he's been here. I like the kid, but I fear we have the makings of another Origi only without the big goals.

I've shown what I would do in this thread mate.

I'd make a change in both personnel and formation to see if that gives us a bit more spark.

Hendo    Thiago

Shaqiri      Minamino      Mane

Salah

I would even try Chamberlain on the right with his direct running and Shaqiri where I have Minamino.

You want to keep things exactly as they are, that's fair enough, but I don't see how continuing to play as we are is benefiting anyone.

4 hours to kick off and Im getting that big game feel, for Burnley!!

A win doesn't improve our league standing.
.the top of the league is starting to open up

Hope the officials have us down for a win tonight.

Origi impact sub, . Do you know what an impact sub is???
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Someone who scores a goal against Barca in the champs league 😋  No no just messing. I know what you mean. Impact sub was probably the wrong reference. Just really meant someone with a physical presence.

The Echo reporting we may have a tactical surprise involving Salah and Mane....wont be much of a surprise with them writing about it.

The Echo reporting we may have a tactical surprise involving Salah and Mane....wont be much of a surprise with them writing about it.

This sounds intriguing. Is it going to involve them taking shots at goal? Have to say, that would surprise everyone.

I’d be inclined to give Salah a run through the middle tonight with Shaq in the inside right position. Middle needs to consist of three proper midfielders for me. Given their ability at set plays this game is well suited for Nat Phillips to come in and perhaps Fab will come into midfield for this one. Any sort of win will do to stop the rot. Don’t give a shot about performance so long as we win

So what happens if you bring Minamino in for Firmino and again we struggle to score the entire game? Then do you bring Firmino on as a sub late and if he can't do something special then what? It just adds to the growing chorus from pundits and some of the support about why Bobby can't score. I just don't see how putting a player on the bench because he's in a bit of a rough patch of form (who isn't on our team?) is how you motivate them to do better. I'm pretty sure that Bobby and Mo and Sadio all want to be scoring and creating chances, for whatever reason it's just not happening, but sitting them on the bench in favor of players that have yet to prove they are going to score doesn't make sense to me. If it was Jota on the bench, then sure, bring him on. But Minamino has been largely ineffective since he's been here. I like the kid, but I fear we have the makings of another Origi only without the big goals.

We need to try something different from what we’ve being doing, cos right now it’s not working, apart from Saints we have faced the bus parking society of the PL our last 4 outings, and struggled, Burnley being Burnley will park their own double decker so we need to tweak one or two positions to try and get thru, using the same formula like what you suggest aint gonna work, and we will drift further behind the leaders,

Winning tonight won’t advance us forward but it breaks the run of draws and will inject some much needed confidence, right now we are in our worst form for three seasons, we need to put a stop to it before it becomes to late, there are still plenty of games and time left to turn things around and we will, but we need to stop the rot now !


                                               Alisson
                              Trent   Matip.  Phillips.  Robbo
                                              Fabinho
                                 Shaqiri.               Thiago
                                  Salah.  Minamino.  Mane

Bench; Kelleher, Hendo, Milner, Gini, Ox, Bobby, Jones, Origi


Dyche will expect the usual X1, so the changes will affect his plans, with little time to alter, from the off I’d attack attack attack, press the sh*t out of them and don’t let them out of their half, lots of pace & tempo, we need to stop the rot asap.



4-0 Champions



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