Topic: Liverpool vs West Bromwich Albion Match Preview

[Fiasco]

I've said this already this season and might well do so again but an early goal is key here. A goal in the first 10 or 20 minutes changes West Brom's game plan and it gives us huge confidence. We play better with more space and if we score early we'll force West Brom out of their shell somewhat and we should go on to score some more goals.

West Brom will treat a draw as a win, and failure to win two games in 5 days against two park the bus sides will not do the squad morale any good (both in the short and long term). I'd take a 1-0 win via a dodgy penalty right now but I'd really love to see us put them to the sword and head into a really winnable fun of fixtures having no fear of low block defences or park the bus teams.

[Lolo]

We will twat em guys. 4-0 or 5-0 easily. Very confident about this. Results go right and we could be TOP OF THE LEAGUE! Remember we will TWAT EM!

Really hate posts like this.. Tongue in cheek or not, people never learn.

Me too.........unbelievable!

[ToneLa]

  press using the presser to talk about Yernited.

“I am not interested in it,” Klopp said. “I thought the game was over, so why should I talk about it still? I don’t care what anybody says after the game.

“I know the game already and I know what I have to learn from it. You want to write what you saw and if it is the same and what other people say, I don’t know if that is good or bad, but use it or leave it.

“Don’t bother me with things like that. I am not a per-cent interested. You cannot win the game after the game, which I have learnt early on in my career. We have a point and it felt positive because it was one more point than before the game. It was a good experience for us, we were not perfect, that is all.”

[Ken-Obi]

press using the presser to talk about Yernited.

“I am not interested in it,” Klopp said. “I thought the game was over, so why should I talk about it still? I don’t care what anybody says after the game.

“I know the game already and I know what I have to learn from it. You want to write what you saw and if it is the same and what other people say, I don’t know if that is good or bad, but use it or leave it.

“Don’t bother me with things like that. I am not a per-cent interested. You cannot win the game after the game, which I have learnt early on in my career. We have a point and it felt positive because it was one more point than before the game. It was a good experience for us, we were not perfect, that is all.”

Love this guy's frank answers.

[Charlie Adams fried egg]

He's great at that isn't he?
Frank, matter of fact and move on. In response to questions about (I think) Mourinho  he also said You write about what you hear, not what you see.

[Zlen]

It'll be a great game to fix the main problem we've had in the United game - lack of patience and confidence in our passing.
If we put the ball down and make them work their socks off just to get close to the ball - then the result will follow. On the other hand, rush it, lose it, force it and we're digging a hole for ourselves. Patience young padawan, patience.

[Charlie Adams fried egg]

It'll be a great game to fix the main problem we've had in the United game - lack of patience and confidence in our passing.
If we put the ball down and make them work their socks off just to get close to the ball - then the result will follow. On the other hand, rush it, lose it, force it and we're digging a hole for ourselves. Patience young padawan, patience.

Couldn't agree more. Believe me i'd love to be a couple up inside twenty, but if we're not, and history against Pulis suggests we won't be, I'd love to see us patiently probing away without forcing it.

I actually think that this is an opportunity for the team to show its development, and by that I mean beating a side by patience and persistence rather than blowing them away.

[bobadicious]

Im of the opinion that against a low block team we should avoid playing Henderson and Can in the same midfield. Neither seem particularly adept at picking the lock open and Can is so slow at turning into space something which Lallana or Gini are much better suited to. Id rather bring in Lallana for Can and keep in Sturridge.

[edge]

Hope we win and Jurgen do something to make Pulis go off in such a spectacular manner that the FA ban him from practicing as a football coach.

[CHOPPER]

[Crosby Nick]

These fuckers don't concede many, only 8 so far, third best record in the League.

Think it's a game well have to show our battling qualities in. Stay switched on and give nothing sill away and we should be alright but I think it'll he tight.

[Redsnappa]

Oh I do like to stroll along the prom, prom, prom ...

[LFCEmpire]

Hoping for a 4-0 but to be fair that is not likely against Pulis and his lot. 1-0

[Kekule]

It feels like people are queueing up to knock us down a bit if we don't win this. "Can't beat defensive teams", "no plan B" and all that. That's no real surprise I suppose, they've spent a few weeks since the Chelsea game building us up, so we all know what happens next. Obviously a certain manager has claimed we aren't all that and where he goes the media usually follow, so it's only to be expected.

I think a combination of having played a similar team on Monday, a few days working on a few things with those tactics fresh in the mind, the international break cobwebs being blown away and the fact the players shouldn't be as nervous as they seemed the other night means we should have a bit more success.  Only concern is that Pulis has a decent record against us, but I'd like to think we've a bit more about us and are a different proposition these days.

It won't be the 10-0 thrashing Pulis and his shithouse tactics deserve though. Shame.

[mkingdon]

Hoping for a return to the bright inventive football we saw against Leicester/Hull.....

One thing that really seemed to disrupt us vs Utd was their front players stopping the ball out from the keeper to the CBs, forcing us to kick long. We won roughly zero of those headers and so conceded possession immediately.

Will Pullis be bold enough to do the same or just sit in his own half and defend?

I'm hoping we can return to our strongest eleven on recent form


                    Karius

Clyne  Matip    Lovren    Milner

                  Henderson

    Gini                           Lallana

Mane          Firmino        Countinho

I feel for Sturridge as he just can't seem to get going at the moment. Ideally he can come on to score the 4th and 5th 

[harryc]

Just need to stay patient and not get caught out by the classic Pulis sucker punch.

Baggies are nothing of note away from home and will just be looking for a draw.

Confident of a win.

[AshLFC]

Lets get back to winning ways. Do these. 

[Titi Camara]

Love this guy's frank answers.

[Johns_Barn]

Haha...ok if I start it off this time, it's become a bit of a ritual in recent times!

'Oh I do like to be beside the sea side'......

Behind the seaside if you're mickey quinn...

[vinothmct]

What time is the match tomorrow

[Caston]

What time is the match tomorrow

5.30

[Titi Camara]

------------------------------Karius

Clyne--------------Matip--------------Lovren--------------Milner

----------------------------Henderson

-----------Wijnaldum----------------------------Lallana

Mane-----------------------Firmino--------------------Countinho

Really hope that's how we line up and press the fucking life out of them!

[Pelé as a Comedian]

Too early for Gomez to start ?

[Isaacsways]

Early goal.... that changes so much...press for an early goal..we do that, we win the game.

[Caston]

Too early for Gomez to start ?

Yes way too early. Can imagine we won't see him anywhere near the first team for a few months yet.

[vallapureddy]

is gini available for this match?

[Caston]

is gini available for this match?

He's training so probably

[momomo]

Im of the opinion that against a low block team we should avoid playing Henderson and Can in the same midfield. Neither seem particularly adept at picking the lock open and Can is so slow at turning into space something which Lallana or Gini are much better suited to. Id rather bring in Lallana for Can and keep in Sturridge.

I wonder if this might be a game to try something from left-field... Maybe push Milner and Hendo right up and have Clyne tuck in a little? A quasi 3 at the back like Guardiola did against the Ev and Rafa used to try once or twice a season (normally when we were playing Newcastle for some reason). West Brom's wing play does not worry me much.

Not sure if I'm underplaying WBA's threat, but I'd like to see Sturridge keep his place and I think this is a game in which we might be able to afford to have Hendo holding the fort (assisted by Milner) with Lallana, Mané, Bob and Phil buzzing around behind the striker.

Granted, I think we'll be able to break them down if we went back to the tried and trusted 4-3-3 with Gini and Bob up top, but I'm always more comfortable with Sturridge on the pitch as I think we're more likely to finish off whatever chances we create.

[Nick110581]

Really hope that's how we line up and press the fucking life out of them!

You can't press a team that wlll have 10 beyond the ball.

Need to show patience.

[bodhisattva]

You can't press a team that wlll have 10 beyond the ball.

Need to show patience.

West Brom unlike Utd will sit deep and so someone like Sturridge should be more effective in that type of game, but that's only if he uses
his movement in the correct way, and im not sure dropping deep is what you want from your #9 in that type of game, you want them taking
their markers into wider positions and holding the ball up well, something Origi is doing better than Sturridge at the moment. But we know
the quality Sturridge has in front of goal and he is the type of player you want on the end of a chance in these tight games where the 1st goal
is really important.

[Zoomers]

We should go back to Gini and Lallalalalaaalallal

[Zoomers]

You can't press a team that wlll have 10 beyond the ball.

Need to show patience.

You're right but that team is filled with movement and intelligence so we should be able to break their bus.

[Suareznumber7]

Yes way too early. Can imagine we won't see him anywhere near the first team for a few months yet.

And why would you want to break up a defensive back 4 that is playing so well anyway?

[Mr_Shane]

we need to move them around from left to right until they have lost track of our players and/or do not know what their own players are doing. It may take patience, but we could do it against Hull and we can do it here, we also need to be careful against the sucker punch

[Nick110581]

Buzzing for this.

[Suareznumber7]

This is actually a pretty tricky game for us especially considering it's sandwiched in between the Utd and Tottenham games.  In the past few years these are the games where we tend to slip up for one reason or the other. 

[vallapureddy]

This might be a game where Gini might open his scoring 

[na fir dearg]

when is the game?

[Digger2God]

when is the game?

In 23 hours.

[Pelé as a Comedian]

And why would you want to break up a defensive back 4 that is playing so well anyway?

cause i wanna see Gomez play. just cuz