Topic: League Cup 4th Round Draw

[stockdam]

So many weak sides and we end up getting City away

So when we win we’ll have an easy run home.

[ABZ Rover]

Nice early Christmas prezzie when we do the bastards.

[RedBec1993]

How many times did schmichael and Dublin glance into the bowls where the balls were 😂😂😂 

[Mighty_Red]

Shit tie but I guess the positive is they'll be in the same situation as us, or possobly worse as they will have a few more players at the world cup.

The main killer is having to go with a stronger team, but with the likes of Diaz back, it'll be a good warm up for Boxing day.

[deanloco9]

Bugger, that means we won’t play the youngsters. 

That's good. Take the competition serious.

[stockdam]

Games to be played week commencing 19 December. It’s obvious which match will be live on Sky (not sure what the 2nd one will be…Newcastle?).

[Crosby Nick]

They will have a few at the World Cup so Pep might not be picking the strongest of sides. Having said that I don’t expect we will be either.

In reality means two of their main gonshites and thorns in our side, Foden and Bernardo won’t be playing. Probably no De Bruyne. No Walker for his recovery pace or Stones. Presumably no Dias.

We might have our Diaz back and looking for minutes before the league restarts. Might have Nunez back if Uruguay don’t get out of the group. We probably wont have Alisson, Fab, Trent or Hendo, maybe Virgil but bar Hendo not sure any would have been picked anyway.

Fuck it, good/strange time to play them so anything could happen.

[Garnier]

Mother of god

[jillcwhomever]

That's good. Take the competition serious.

It’s not good how are young players ever getting a chance? Besides which I hate playing them it’s bad enough having to do it in the league never mind the cups.

[deanloco9]

Considering we don't play for 6 weeks or so It'll be

Kelleher, Ramsay, Matip, Gomez, Robertson, Thiago, Milner, Elliott, Salah, Diaz, Firmino

[Pistolero]

Bent as fuck....

[unknownuser]

As soon as that City ball was pulled I knew ours would be next.

[Garnier]

A League Cup 4th Round Draw.

You'd struggle to find draws this hard in the European Super League

[disgraced cake]

Like Madrid it's the hardest draw we could get but the thing is if you beat them your chances start looking very good all of a sudden ... fucking come on Liverpool

[Schmarn]

So many weak sides and we end up getting City away

Apart from Virgil do we have anyone likely to start and play a lot of games?

For them Ederson, Dias, Cancelo, KDB, Bernardo, Foden will all start. Possibly others.

[Garlicbread]

Apart from Virgil do we have anyone likely to start and play a lot of games?

For them Ederson, Dias, Cancelo, KDB, Bernardo, Foden will all start. Possibly others.

Alisson will start ahead of Ederson.

[Ciara (with a capital "C")]

Considering we don't play for 6 weeks or so It'll be

Kelleher, Ramsay, Matip, Gomez, Robertson, Thiago, Milner, Elliott, Salah, Diaz, Firmino

How far away is Jota?

[Robinred]

Don’t subscribe to conspiracy theories, but why was the container glass?

[Ciara (with a capital "C")]

Surely anyone knocked out QFs or earlier will be in contention? That’s 9 days at least, before the game…?

[jackh]

Tremendous (draw) by the way.

[So… Howard Philips]

Bent as fuck....

I think City will be on to their lawyers as they didn’t get Gillingham.

[SamLad]

them at home I'd be OK with but ffs .... bent as fuck is right.

[Mighty_Red]

Alisson will start ahead of Ederson.

Yup and GK is the one position we can trust in his deputy. Kelleher will be fine for this game and Boxing day if need be. Midfield will be an issue (when hasn't it been) but basically their entire midfield are going.

[SinceSixtyFive]

 

You couldn't make it up could you?

Strange timing after the world cup etc which should give us a bit of an advantage.

Hopefully we smash 'em and knock 'em out of the Kelleher cup!

[duvva 💅]

FFS only just seen this.

First game back after the World Cup so that will obviously impact both teams. Hopefully that may push things slightly in our favour despite being away.

Big game to look forward to after a 5 weeks with no football

[rushyman]

Surely anyone knocked out QFs or earlier will be in contention? That’s 9 days at least, before the game…?

Which premier league players are favourite to reach the the semis at least?

[SinceSixtyFive]

Don’t subscribe to conspiracy theories, but why was the container glass?

So everyone can see theres no funny business going on.

Or... to allow some funny business to go on.

[D🐶G]

Must admit I was fuming when I saw the draw, but considering we’d probably have to play them at some point anyway if we’re going to win it and taking the potential missing World Cup players into account, it probably isn’t that bad a time to get them.

No reason why we can’t go there and get the win.

[BarryCrocker]

They will have a few at the World Cup so Pep might not be picking the strongest of sides. Having said that I don’t expect we will be either.

Roughly speaking:

Liverpool
5 players: Alisson, Fabinho (both Brazil), Ibrahima Konate (France), Trent Alexander-Arnold, Jordan Henderson (both England).

Man City
12 players: Manuel Akanji (Switzerland), Ederson (Brazil), Kevin De Bruyne (Belgium), Ilkay Gundogan (Germany), John Stones, Kyle Walker, Kalvin Phillips, Phil Foden, Jack Grealish (all England), Joao Cancelo, Ruben Dias, Bernardo Silva (all Portugal).

[Onward Liverpudlian]

Games to be played week commencing 19 December. It’s obvious which match will be live on Sky (not sure what the 2nd one will be…Newcastle?).

It will be Utd vs Burnley.

[Ciara (with a capital "C")]

Which premier league players are favourite to reach the the semis at least?

I think cheering for Belgium and Portugal is the one. And England to get as far as the semis?

[Fordy]

Wow that draw looks a fix.

[Ravishing Rick Dude]

It's always nice to beat that bald c*nt, and i can't get enough, although we already twatted them twice.

[Robinred]

So everyone can see theres no funny business going on.

Or... to allow some funny business to go on.

Well quite. I’m sure the former was the reason, except the opposite has reared it’s head, plus a plumb home draw for Utd.

[Mighty_Red]

Roughly speaking:

Liverpool
5 players: Alisson, Fabinho (both Brazil), Ibrahima Konate (France), Trent Alexander-Arnold, Jordan Henderson (both England).

Man City
12 players: Manuel Akanji (Switzerland), Ederson (Brazil), Kevin De Bruyne (Belgium), Ilkay Gundogan (Germany), John Stones, Kyle Walker, Kalvin Phillips, Phil Foden, Jack Grealish (all England), Joao Cancelo, Ruben Dias, Bernardo Silva (all Portugal).

VvD as well. Not sure about Thiago but I don't think he'll go.

[JackWard33]

Wow that draw looks a fix.

Waiting for someone to explain the point of the ‘fix’

[killer-heels]

I don’t know if everybody is being deliberately obtuse but the game is our first one back from the World Cup. We are playing friendlies out in Dubai so very likely all our regular players not going and those knocked out early would have had to play against whatever side we faced in this competition in the next round.

That’s unless you think we should play the kids and in that case could you ask Jurgen why the fuck he has arranged friendly matches?

[Nick110581]

Shit draw for both Teams.

[4pool]

Does Pep or Jurgen fancy a packed fixture list for January? Because whichever team wins this will have one.

[Schmarn]

Roughly speaking:

Liverpool
5 players: Alisson, Fabinho (both Brazil), Ibrahima Konate (France), Trent Alexander-Arnold, Jordan Henderson (both England).

Man City
12 players: Manuel Akanji (Switzerland), Ederson (Brazil), Kevin De Bruyne (Belgium), Ilkay Gundogan (Germany), John Stones, Kyle Walker, Kalvin Phillips, Phil Foden, Jack Grealish (all England), Joao Cancelo, Ruben Dias, Bernardo Silva (all Portugal).

From ours Fab, Ibou, Trent and Hendo will play very few minutes. So just Ali and Virg starting. City have at least 6 starters there.