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Match Preview Liverpool FC vs FC Sion



When you think of Switzerland, you think of a nation known for cuckoo clocks, chocolates, cheese that's holier than the Pope, fiendishly over-engineered pen-knives and stolen Nazi gold and art treasures.
It's hard to say what their greatest contribution to football is.


For Liverpool, of course, the Swiss superman is best represented by Stephane Henchoz, who came through the ranks at Neuchatel Xamax before leaving Swiss football for the Bundesliga and Premier League.
Henchoz appeared 135 times for Liverpool, and alongside Sami Hyypia formed the tight defensive partnership that was the base on which Liverpool built their treble campaign of 2000-01.

In recent years, Basel have dominated the Swiss Superleague, winning the competition nine times since the change from the old National A division in 2003. They are still some way off Grasshopper Zurich's record of 27 league titles, the last of which came in 2003.

Sion, meanwhile, have traditionally been more of a cup specialist, winning the Swiss Cup on no fewer than thirteen occasions. They hold the unique distinction of never having lost a cup final.

Their current manager is Dider Tholot, who has been in and out of the role on a regular basis since first being appointed in 2003.

He left the club for the second time in 2010, after which the Sion manager's position was swapped around an unbelievable eighteen times before he returned for yet another stint.

Here's the list:
Didier Tholot (April 14, 2009 – May 21, 2010)
Bernard Challandes (July 1, 2010–Feb 22, 2011)
Laurent Roussey (Feb 22, 2011–April 23, 2012)
Rolland Courbis (interim) (April 2, 2012 – June 5, 2012)
Vladimir Petković (May 15, 2012 – June 2, 2012)
Sébastien Fournier (June 1, 2012–Sept 3, 2012)
Michel Decastel (Sept 4, 2012–Oct 30, 2012)
Pierre-André Schürmann (Oct 30, 2012–Dec 10, 2012)
Víctor Muñoz (Jan 1, 2013–Feb 25, 2013)
Gennaro Gattuso (Feb 25, 2013–March 25, 2013)
Luigi Riccio (interim) (March 1, 2013 – March 24, 2013)
Arno Rossini (March 26, 2013 – May 13, 2013)
Michel Decastel (May 15, 2013–Oct 21, 2013)
Laurent Roussey (Oct 22, 2013–Feb 11, 2014)
Raimondo Ponte (Feb 11, 2014–Jun 5, 2014)
Claudio Gentile (Jun 5, 2014–Jun 12, 2014)
Frédéric Chassot (Jun 12, 2014–Sep 28, 2014)
Jochen Dries (Sep 28, 2014–Dec 8, 2014)
Didier Tholot (Dec 17, 2014–)

I particularly like how two of those were "interim" managers, yet managed to stay in role longer than some of the permanent choices.

I suspect this is some kind of record, anyone know otherwise?

Anyway, the club is now at last under a stable regime, and currently sit fifth in the Swiss Superleague with 4 wins from 9.

Players to look out for include forwards Konate and Mboyo and winger Geoffrey Bia.

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Previous Meetings

The Swiss Superleague outfit has only once played Liverpool in a competitive fixture, in the 1996 Cup Winners Cup.

The away leg was won 2-1 by Roy Evans' Liverpool, with club legends Robbie Fowler and John Barnes scoring for the reds.
The return leg at Anfield was a nine-goal spectacular, the Reds running out 6-3 winners with a rare goal from Stig Inge Bjornebye among contributions from McManaman, Barnes, Fowler (2) and Berger.
Liverpool would go on to lose 3-2 on aggregate to PSG in the Semi-Final, representing their last ever chance to win the now-defunct third European competition.


Players to have pulled on the FC Sion shirt include former Crystal Palace and Sheffield Wednesday star Mark Bright as well as Rangers and Milan star Gennaro Gattuso, Man City's other 90s Georgian player Mikheil Kavelashvili, Everton and Newcastle's Mark Hottiger and the New England Revolution's Jose Goncalves.
(And if there are more names you recall among Sion's list of former players, you are a greater football nerd than I.)

Sion are currently top of Group B, after winning their match against Rubin Kazan last time out. A win for Liverpool would propel us to the top of the league. And it seems like a long time since we've been able to say that.
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WTF is going on with match preview threads for a game 5 days away before today's game has even started ?

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WTF is going on with match preview threads for a game 5 days away before today's game has even started ?

Never mind that, preview threads for matches beyond our upcoming match...

Great write up mind you. Same system, Rossiter in for Lucas, Gomez in for Can or Sakho, Origi for Sturridge and Lallana maybe for Phil. Think it's important to keep our key players fresh for the league.

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I went to the 6-3 game, they had scored 2 before I'd even got my coat off.

Barnesy backheeled one in if I remember rightly.

Oh and lots of cowbells in the away end. Makes a change from when EFC visit and theres just bells in the away end  ;D

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Great OP  :wellin


Knowing nothing about Sion, I'll copy and paste an old post I made about another Swiss team -

We've got this. This gang of holey cheese making, Toblerone chomping, euthanasia loving, daft fucking penknife owners with about 90% shite that you'd never use in a normal lifetime, can go fuck themselves. The red army has got 40,000 voices backing it up. What have these fuckers got? A stupid fucking tool for getting gravel out of a horse's shoe? We'll twat these c*nts.

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No Sturridge.
No Lucas.
No Sakho.

Other than that, pick a strong team.

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No Sturridge.
No Lucas.
No Sakho.

Other than that, pick a strong team.
Add Coutinho to that list.
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Terrific OP mate, after today's victory, I'm hoping we carry on like this on Thursday. Something like this wouldn't go amiss:

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No Sturridge.
No Lucas.
No Sakho.
Other than that, pick a strong team.
Add Coutinho to that list.

Mignolet
Can Skrtel Gomez
Clyne Allen Milner Moreno
Lallana Ings Origi

? Probably forgot someone
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I'd go for a half strength team here. That should still be more than enough to beat this side, and will give some players in need of a slight rest some time off before the derby.

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Is this on the box? Wouldnt mind seeing the full backs rested for this. Really want a win on the weekend so if resting our starters aids that then im all for it.
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Mignolet
Can Skrtel Gomez
Clyne Allen Milner Moreno
Lallana Ings Origi

? Probably forgot someone

Rossiter over Allen. If we want him to be Lucas's replacement in the future, he needs to be playing games like these.

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The sensible option would be to play a mostly reserve side against Sion, who should be beatable at Anfield and put a full-strength side against Everton.

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Should see some gametime for Allen, Lallana, Ibe, and Gomez here.

Hopefully a couple of the star players are on the bench in case things go wrong.

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From 2003-2009, Sion had another 16 managers  :o
So that's 35 managers in 12 years  :lmao :lmao :lmao

Pretty sure I had a stint there  ;D

Their president and owner is a nutter. He was charged with kicking a linesman in the balls once and also hired himself as manager on another occasion.
One manager quit at HT during a match  :D :D :D :D
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           Mignolet
  Gomez  Skrtel  Sakho
Ibe Rossiter Allen  Moreno
      Lallana   Brannagan
             Origi

Ideally we'd be able to rest Skrtel, Sakho, and Moreno but that's just not possible given that Toure, and Lovren are injured and Enrique is AWOL apparently. Would have been a great game for Ilori and/or Teixeira so shame neither is in our EL squad this season. Anyways, I'd like to see a couple of young faces in there for this game; time to see what Brannagan is all about.

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Great OP, Nessy. Expect 3 points from this one.
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Terrific OP mate, after today's victory, I'm hoping we carry on like this on Thursday. Something like this wouldn't go amiss:

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Just listen to how loud the ground got after the first Sion goal went in. :(
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           Mignolet
  Gomez  Skrtel  Sakho
Ibe Rossiter Allen  Moreno
      Lallana   Brannagan
             Origi

Ideally we'd be able to rest Skrtel, Sakho, and Moreno but that's just not possible given that Toure, and Lovren are injured and Enrique is AWOL apparently. Would have been a great game for Ilori and/or Teixeira so shame neither is in our EL squad this season. Anyways, I'd like to see a couple of young faces in there for this game; time to see what Brannagan is all about.

Toure was on the bench today

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Is this on the box? Wouldnt mind seeing the full backs rested for this. Really want a win on the weekend so if resting our starters aids that then im all for it.

I think, If we are playing with the same 352 formation,Ibe will definitely come on for clyne... the problem is, do we have a backup for moreno? Enrique is not registered....

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I thought Sion were an Italian side. Says how well known they are.
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Need to cotton wrap Moreno for the Derby .ATM he is more important than Coutinho with this 3-5-2 formation

Better rest him on Thursday along with Sturridge .
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A victory here....(and a comfortable one!)....would be perfect prep for the derby on Sunday


Some of our players may be a little knackered so a few tweaks to the team would be good, I'd like to see Rossiter, Ibe, Gomez and Origi play a majority of the game for example.

But whoever is out there if they could play with a little freedom and enjoy their football, it can only be good for us.

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      Mignolet
  Gomez  Skrtel  Touré
Ibe Rossiter Allen  someone other than Moreno
         Lallana   
       Ings Origi

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we can't even beat Carlisle in 120 mins of footy, id field a strong team and try and get a couple of early goals then take players off to rest

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I thought Sion were an Italian side. Says how well known they are.

Says how good you're geography is :D

Hopefully we keep up the levels from yesterday, we should be winning this comfortably.
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Your English isn't much better than his geography mate.
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WTF is going on with match preview threads for a game 5 days away before today's game has even started ?

You're welcome.

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Difficult balance to achieve here. We need the win as we only drew the first game but Sunday is massive.
Agree with the list of those to rest. Suggest Origi and Lallana up front for this.
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I think Sturridge and Ings can only benefit from a run of games together, get a shedload of goals for the pair of them and pump the team for the Derby. Neither has actually played much football so far, so the risk of burnout is very slim.

I'd start both.
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...................Mignolet.........................

.......Gomes....Skrtel......Can...............

....................Rossiter....................

Ibe.........Allen...........Lallana......Maguire

................Sturridge......Ings...................


Id like to see Gomes tried on the right of the back 3 but our lack of CBs means you probably have to play Can there too cos Sakho needs to be protected so I'd play him on the left of the 3. Rossiter in the Lucas role and Maguire and Ibe to come in for the wingbacks who are important players and need resting for the weekend. Id play Lallana in the Coutinho position alongside Allen and Sturridge and Ings up front with Sturridge getting maybe 60min whatever the score.

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Terrific OP mate, after today's victory, I'm hoping we carry on like this on Thursday. Something like this wouldn't go amiss:

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We should be able to rest players and still win the game so id play what is effectively our second XI

             Bogdan
Ibe can Toure gomez Moreno
       Rossiter  Allen 
               Lallana.
          Origi      Ings

No excuse if that didn't win. I am concerned by our lack of squad depth tho. The markovic loan still baffles me as does the failure to buy a LB.



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Why do people not want Moreno starting?
I think a consistent run of playing would be good for him.

Origi and Ings have to play.
Would like to see Ibe given another shot too.
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We should be able to rest players and still win the game so id play what is effectively our second XI

             Bogdan
Ibe can Toure gomez Moreno
       Rossiter  Allen 
               Lallana.
          Origi      Ings

No excuse if that didn't win. I am concerned by our lack of squad depth tho. The markovic loan still baffles me as does the failure to buy a LB.


this but play someone else instead of moreno

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We should be able to rest players and still win the game so id play what is effectively our second XI

             Bogdan
Ibe can Toure gomez Moreno
       Rossiter  Allen 
               Lallana.
          Origi      Ings

No excuse if that didn't win. I am concerned by our lack of squad depth tho. The markovic loan still baffles me as does the failure to buy a LB.

Enrique must be up for playing in this...Moreno needs to be focused for the Derby, it'll be less likely he can play so high up if Coleman and Lennon/Deloufeu are playing and he's still suspect defensively.

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I think Sturridge and Ings can only benefit from a run of games together, get a shedload of goals for the pair of them and pump the team for the Derby. Neither has actually played much football so far, so the risk of burnout is very slim.

I'd start both.

Have you been around the last few years? Forgot about the part where Danny is made of glass? Any game we can rest him, we should do, especially as he's only just coming back.

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I'm not fussed on who starts, we just have to get three points.

Rodgers needs a good campaign in Europe in my view, he needs to show that he handle the demands it places on him and his squad.  To get out of this group we should be taking maximum points at Anfield, starting on Thursday.

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WTF is going on with match preview threads for a game 5 days away before today's game has even started ?


Nessy anticipated the win, and needed to have a thread open for Fordy to scream "Rodgers Out" in without derailing the post match thread. It didn't work, but it was a selfless and noble act.

 
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Have you been around the last few years? Forgot about the part where Danny is made of glass? Any game we can rest him, we should do, especially as he's only just coming back.

Nah, he needs to play himself into form. If he's going to break down again now it will happen whether he plays this game or not. He needs fitness more than cotton wool.

Either he's fixed after the latest op or he never will be. All the more reason to play him while he is available.
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