Topic: Match Preview: Liverpool vs. Crystal Palace [Saturday 19 August, K.O. 15:00]

[Wool]

Sturridge, yesssssss.

[robertobaggio37]

I hate to be a negative brat, but that defence and midfield couldn't get any more average. Still, gonna support the lads. Come on redmen!

[Samie]

Daniel, my son. 

[jillcwhomever]

We don't need any other players though.

No one has said that. 

[Zoomers]

'citing front line...and so much for all the nonsense about Mane being rested.....might stop the social media addicts second guessing the team selection in future..but i doubt it

The c*nts made me transfer him out of my fantasy team for....... Salah 

[Fitzy.]

We don't need any other players though.

Honestly, there's literally 100,000 posts on this topic. It'd be nice to discuss the quality we do have for the upcoming three hours or so.

[SerbianScouser]

Huge day for Joe Gomez, he's been waiting for this day for pretty much two years.

Glad to see him at fullback, he can be really boss there. Being used at CB did him no favours.

[Vote For Pedro]

Klavan had some cracking games for us last season, give the guy a chance. He may just be the better option for a physical battle than Lovren until we finally make a breakthrough with VVD

[tommy LFC]

The general consensus last year was "we would have beaten that mid table team at home if Sturridge was available."

Lets see...

[pyroparty]

Hopefully they come and play, De Boer seems stubborn as fuck so I actually think they might in which case our front 3 should get loads of joy.

[Caligula?]

Honestly, there's literally 100,000 posts on this topic. It'd be nice to discuss the quality we do have for the upcoming three hours or so.

Fine. Salah to win it off the bench.

[Sarge]

Must win this,  with Arsenal and City to follow we really could be playing catch up.

Yeah because we only have 37 games to play.

Fuck me.

[Fitzy.]

I hate to be a negative brat, but that defence and midfield couldn't get any more average. Still, gonna support the lads. Come on redmen!

Not average. It's solid and disciplined but better than majority of midfields in the league. Not average.

[rawcusk8]

Anyone got the Palace team?

[Sarge]

It's actually a good bench.

Its very good. Just went on a mad one over on Twitter as we have some right fucking arseholes 'supporting' our Club.

[sms1986]

The c*nts made me transfer him out of my fantasy team for....... Salah 

Alls anyone had to go on was that they weren't in training for the last two days and that there were no reports of him or Can being injured.

[Fitzy.]

Fine. Salah to win it off the bench.

That'd be good.

[Fitzy.]

Its very good. Just went on a mad one over on Twitter as we have some right fucking arseholes 'supporting' our Club.

The Klopp out heroes? Love those fans. They 'get' it.

[Kashinoda]

Must win this,  with Arsenal and City to follow we really could be playing catch up.

Yeah and Chelsea were out the title race in October last year, United were going to walk it too

[JD.]

The c*nts made me transfer him out of my fantasy team for....... Salah 

The c*nts. So Paul Joyce, the one who reported it?

[sms1986]

Anyone got the Palace team?

It's been posted on the last page or two.

[jillcwhomever]

Its very good. Just went on a mad one over on Twitter as we have some right fucking arseholes 'supporting' our Club.

Which is why I never bother with twitter.

[TobyLFC]

Come on Liverpool, we've got this! YNWA

[JD.]

Alls anyone had to go on was that they weren't in training for the last two days and that there were no reports of him or Can being injured.

Plus, you know, Paul Joyce reporting he was unlikely to play.

[Studgotelli]

If there was any proof we need QUALITY defensive and midfield signings pronto this is it. Fuck me sideways.

[Mighty Zeus]

I hate to be a negative brat, but that defence and midfield couldn't get any more average. Still, gonna support the lads. Come on redmen!

Gomez is fucking brilliant.

Robertson is... actually I haven't got a clue. I can't even remember who he used to play for.

Up the reds


Edit: HULL! That's it. Anyway, we're almost certainly going to win/

[Fordy]

Not sure about that midfield but we take it now that Milner is back to being a midfielder for us.

Shame Kent isn't on the bench. Never been a fan of 2 defenders being on the bench to be honest but great of Flannagan to be back in the mix.

[dangerpuss]

Palace are playing the same formation as Hoffenheim. I'd fancy Mané, Sturridge and Firmino against their back three all day long. Mané to Sturridge. Danny could do very, very well today.

[rocco]

Anyone got the Palace team?

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[Johnnyboy1973]

Ordinarily I'd say three changes to a back four would have a destabilising effect.

[ToneLa]

Decent team, good to see Studge back!

[Bread]

BBC deciding to lead with "Salah has been benched by Liverpool". How much money are we willing to bet that they try to convince us that he's a "flop" at some point?

[BabuYagu]

I hate to be a negative brat, but that defence and midfield couldn't get any more average. Still, gonna support the lads. Come on redmen!

You have to look at what it is playing against though. A central midfield of Milivojevec & Puncheon.

My biggest concern is having two passive aerial defenders vs an aggressive aerial attacker in Benteke.

Delighted to see some rotation though. Can has been going through the motions so far for us in my opinion. Moreno & TAA got through a fierce amount of work on Tuesday. A fresh Salah coming on against Tomkins late in the game could decide it. We never had that pace off the bench last year.

Suspect without the ball, Firmino will drop and make it a 4-D-2 to make sure we always have a man over in defence somewhere rather than 1-v-1 all over the pitch. Also suspect we will be more compact than usual centrally to give better defensive access and will likely leave their wing backs - particularly Ward - quite open at times for a switch as a trade off for being more solid through the middle and leaving Mane high up the pitch again.

[Yanwoo]

This lineup starts to confirm the idea that LB is Moreno/Robertson in Klopp's thinking, and Milner is back being a midfielder.

[So… Howard Philips]

Ordinarily I'd say three changes to a back four would have a destabilising effect.

[10 years on]

You have to look at what it is playing against though. A central midfield of Milivojevec & Puncheon.

My biggest concern is having two passive aerial defenders vs an aggressive aerial attacker in Benteke.

Delighted to see some rotation though. Can has been going through the motions so far for us in my opinion. Moreno & TAA got through a fierce amount of work on Tuesday. A fresh Salah coming on against Tomkins late in the game could decide it. We never had that pace off the bench last year.

Suspect without the ball, Firmino will drop and make it a 4-D-2 to make sure we always have a man over in defence somewhere rather than 1-v-1 all over the pitch. Also suspect we will be more compact than usual centrally to give better defensive access and will likely leave their wing backs - particularly Ward - quite open at times for a switch as a trade off for being more solid through the middle and leaving Mane high up the pitch again.

Surely it's loftus-cheek CM not puncheon.

[Djimi Smicer34]

I hate to be a negative brat, but that defence and midfield couldn't get any more average. Still, gonna support the lads. Come on redmen!

Should be enough to get the three points today but I think it's clear we're at least a couple short and hopefully we'll address that before the window closes.

[sms1986]

BBC deciding to lead with "Salah has been benched by Liverpool". How much money are we willing to bet that they try to convince us that he's a "flop" at some point?

Just ignore them, they'll never be able to convince us that he's a flop, the only way we'll be convinced is if he does turn out to be a flop (which I highly doubt).

[Pistolero]

gave my ticket to my nephew today as a birthday present......so hoping its a dull 1-0

[The Final Third]

Congrats to Andy on his debut..at Anfield for the first home match of the season must be buzzing and perhaps some compensation for being left out of the European pre-season tour..Mo will probably be brought on late to make his home debut a s well.

Line-up's a bit untested as the lads, particularly in the back line, haven't played at all together but we should be pretty much on the front foot most of the match so they might not have to defend a whole heap anyway.

So up the mighty Reds let's start building Fortress Anfield up once again.