Topic: MATCH PREVIEW - Atalanta v Liverpool - Europa League, Thurs 18 April @ 8pm

[kop306]

watching arsenal and city go out gives me more confidence for the game tomorrow

a good win tomorrow and we can put pressure back onto arsenal and city for the run in

alison, jota and trent are going to be massive for us now

[DelTrotter]

Can't wait for this now, will get very interesting if we can get 2 up, Atalanta won't know what to do then.

[duvva 💅]

Thanks for the OP Stockdam. I shouldn’t imagine you thought you’d be writing it with us at 3-0 down.

Hard to know what to expect at the moment. We know what they’re capable of and that’s why the last few games have been so frustrating.

It’s also one of the reasons we can’t give up. If we can buck the recent trend and come out and take the lead then who knows. We definitely need to be more clinical and much more difficult to play through and defend better. Sounds a lot, but if we sort one or two things the rest seems to fall into place.

Those who’ve returned recently will have had more time training this week which can only help.

Hopeful not confident, but will keep believing until it’s impossible.

[disgraced cake]

Score first fifteen and I fancy us

[terry_macss_perm]

watching arsenal and city go out gives me more confidence for the game tomorrow

a good win tomorrow and we can put pressure back onto arsenal and city for the run in

alison, jota and trent are going to be massive for us now

Perish the thought that it affects us, but looking very unlikely that England will have an extra CL place next season after tonight’s results.

[killer-heels]

Score first fifteen and I fancy us

Id take 1-0 to us within any point in the first 60 minutes right now. We dont need to score early.

[stjohns]

Score first fifteen and I fancy us

Just score first.

[disgraced cake]

Id take 1-0 to us within any point in the first 60 minutes right now. We dont need to score early.

Fair point because we could obviously score '40 and '45 for example which puts us in a good position providing we haven't conceded. If say by the hour we're two goals up would really fancy us. We'll see.

[RyanBabel19]

Id take 1-0 to us within any point in the first 60 minutes right now. We dont need to score early.

It makes a bug difference. Obviously going 1-0 up even in the 58th minute would be great and leaves time to level the tie and even lead but imagine the general feeling in the game and for both sets of fans should we lead within 5 - 10 mins. Players get an extra bit of belief, some doubt creeps into the minds of their players knowing already coming into the game our reputation for pulling off comebacks. Struggling to get the ball into the net for an hour could leave us with a familiar feeling after recent results

Early goal please

[Ski]

My head says it’s improbable. My heart says if we get one it’ll give everyone hope, if we get two it’ll give us belief.

I hope the boss gives them the old “anyone else, no chance. Because it’s you……” speech to inspire this group to go out there and give everything. Leave everything out on the pitch is all I hope for.

[Clint Eastwood]

3-0 is an annoying scoreline to chase isn't it?

We should have just settled for 0-1 and given ourselves a chance in the second leg.

[amir87]

Interesting one as right now everyone would obviously take us coming back and winning by three goals to take it to extra time but imagine doing that and losing on pens like City did. Would be both physically and mentally painful with an another game in 3 days.

[newterp]

Score first fifteen and I fancy us

If we score the first 15 goals we are easily winning this.