Watford fc v Liverpool fc 1.30 PM

Harry Palmr

On Sky Sports I presume

The home side are quietly putting together a fine season, the top promoted side but its gone somewhat unnoticed thanks to Leicester City. The home side have won their last three PL games while Liverpool have not won the last two. A win tomorrow for will put Liverpool above the hosts. 2 points off the current top 4 (ignoring g/d)

For the visitors Milner and Mignolet are absent along with the longer term absentees, Lovren is out for a couple more weeks. Sakho has been mentioned as starting but its 50/50 at best and Sturridge is of course missing.

That means a debate as to start Origi (4 goals in recent games) or Benteke or neither and go with the LFC (Lallana, Firmino, Coutinho).

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Bogdan
Clyne--Skrtel--Toure--Moreno (maybe Sakho)

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Hendo-Lucas-Can

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Lallana-Coutinho

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Firmino

is how I'd go.

Kerrigooney

Skrtel and Toure would give me the fear. Let's hope Sakho is back. I feel a draw.

BeepBeep67

Liverpool have been performing better against teams ahead of them in the league, a nervy 2-1 to the Kloppites

5starpool

Hopefully we can keep Ighalo quiet anyhow, but I think he'll relish playing against our defence. I'm looking forward to seeing how Bogdan does in his first for us in the league, hopefully better than Mignolet of late anyhow.

mosstin

Kerrigooney wrote: »

Skrtel and Toure would give me the fear. Let's hope Sakho is back. I feel a draw.

Skrtel and Toure up against in-form Deeney and Ighalo? There will be blood.

Washington Irving

Score draw. Front three to cancel out Skrtel and Toure.

Kerrigooney

mosstin wrote: »

Skrtel and Toure up against in-form Deeney and Ighalo? There will be blood.

Faugheen

Anyone saying they need to keep Ighalo quiet only looks at stats.

Anything good that's done by Watford goes through Troy Deeney. He's the man they need to shut out.

redzerdrog

I didn't know Mignolet was out, what's wrong with him?

I have as much faith in Bogdan as I do Mignolet anyway

Kerrigooney

redzerdrog wrote: »

I didn't know Mignolet was out, what's wrong with him?

I have as much faith in Bogdan as I do Mignolet anyway

Slight hamstring strain,I think.

BullBlackNova

Says a lot about both Watford and Liverpool that I'm looking at this game with a looot of nerves. Deeney and Ighalo are an excellent strike force against what is far from Liverpool's best defence. Toure and Skrtel is the stuff of nightmares against pacy or strong players. Suppose there's a chance that Klopp might choose Can in there?

If I was picking the team, I'd be going with the same front 3 that did well against City and Chelsea. Taking Milner and Mignolet as injured...

Bogdan
Clyne - Skrtel - Can - Moreno
Henderson - Lucas - Allen
Lallana - Firmino - Coutinho

Not our best, but I'd be more confident of Can in the back 4 than Toure I think.

Props to Watford for an absolutely brilliant start to the season. They really would be the story of the season if Leicester weren't top!!

Milkers

Faugheen wrote: »

Anyone saying they need to keep Ighalo quiet only looks at stats.

Anything good that's done by Watford goes through Troy Deeney. He's the man they need to shut out.

Disagree. Have seen them a good bit and while Ighalo is technically raw he has that Vardy/Suarez type trait of constantly harassing defenders and annoys them into making mistakes. I think he will give Skrtel problems.

SantryRed

Very excited for this one.

If there's one criticism of Watford this year, it's been their performances against the bigger sides. They gave too much respect to United a couple of weeks ago, and really should have been 2/3-0 down by half time. The second half was a much better affair and they were very unlucky to not get at least a point.

Hopefully we get at Liverpool from the word go today. Not confident in this one though, think Liverpool to win 2-1.

Turtyturd

Haven't really been any shock results this weekend, hopefully Liverpool can get the win and provide one here.

Harry Palmr

Confirmed #LFC team against @WatfordFC:

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Bogdan,
Clyne, Skrtel, Sakho, Moreno,
----Hendo--Lucas--Can,
----Lallana, Coutinho,

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Firmino

Confirmed #LFC substitutes: Fulton, Toure, Randall, Allen, Ibe, Origi, Benteke.

The ideal side for me right now.

Watford

Gomes; Nyom, Britos, Cathcart, Ake; Capoue, Watson; Abdi, Deeney, Jurado; Ighalo

Subs:

Arlauskis, Holebas, Behrami, Guedioura, Anya, Diamanti, Oulare

Milkers

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Confirmed #LFC team against @WatfordFC:

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Bogdan,
Clyne, Skrtel, Sakho, Moreno,
----Hendo--Lucas--Can,
----Lallana, Coutinho,

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Firmino

Confirmed #LFC substitutes: Fulton, Toure, Randall, Allen, Ibe, Origi, Benteke.

The ideal side for me right now.

Hope the Man City Firmino shows up and not the other lad who plays most games.

Harry Palmr

Milkers wrote: »

Hope the Man City Firmino shows up and not the other lad who plays most games.

That Firmino was playing with Coutinho and Lallana rather than bumbling Benteke.

murpho999

Like the line up and great to see Sakho back.

Turtyturd

Good to see the best defender in the league back. Him and Nevlor (x2) will have come back from season threatening injuries in the amount of time Sturridge has been out with a hamstring strain.

Harry Palmr

Turtyturd wrote: »

Good to see the best defender in the league back. Him and Nevlor (x2) will have come back from season threatening injuries in the amount of time Sturridge has been out with a hamstring strain.

Harsh but true. Pretty damning in its own way.

Harry Palmr

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Harsh but true. ....

Not at all true, people (some in this case seemingly) hear ligament damage and think season threatening. It was a 6 week injury, there was never any talk of Sakho being out for the season once the injury was assessed.

redzerdrog

redzerdrog wrote: »

I didn't know Mignolet was out, what's wrong with him?

He's ****e

Turtyturd

This on any American channels?

My head can't handle Alan bitter Smith.

5starpool

Oh Bogdan. Even Mignolet was never that obvious.

Ref with an assist.

LuckyLloyd

lol :pac:

Awful stuff

Vex Willems

Bring mig back

Vicxas

Bogdan.... Just. Ugh

Lol, p45

Turtyturd

Ginger Mig.

Buford T. Justice XIX

Bogdan, the ginger Mig:mad:

happyoutscan

What the f*ck do our keepers be at in training.

LuckyLloyd

Seriously though, can't keep giving away goals like that and getting away with it - which we haven't been.

SlickRic

Ok, let's buy a fúcking keeper who can fúcking catch or fúcking punch the ball properly.

I'm sick of this absolute shít.

Incredible error x 2, looks a total goon of a keeper.

Vicxas

That's the second time he's started a match that hes let in a stupidly early goal.

niallo27

Did he not kick it out of his hands. Should have been a free kick

LuckyLloyd

Pitch looks in very poor condition

Strumms

5starpool wrote: »

Oh Bogdan. Even Mignolet was never that obvious.

Ref with an assist.

How did the ref assist ? Enlighten us ? It was definately a corner and definately no free kick. Sooooooo ?

5starpool

niallo27 wrote: »

Did he not kick it out of his hands. Should have been a free kick

No it shouldn't. He didn't have the ball under his control.

kfallon

niallo27 wrote: »

Did he not kick it out of his hands. Should have been a free kick

No - it was a calamity from a keeper with previous!

niallo27

niallo27 wrote: »

Did he not kick it out of his hands. Should have been a free kick

Nope, from what I saw Bogdan hadn't a hold of the ball, he failed to get it into his hands after dropping it first time.

Ciano35

niallo27 wrote: »

Did he not kick it out of his hands. Should have been a free kick

That's what I was thinking??

shamrock55

His face was as red as his hair after that

mada999

ffs..

prettyboy81

Terrible stuff, keeper never had ball under his control!

redzerdrog

redzerdrog wrote: »

I have as much faith in Bogdan as I do Mignolet anyway

Told yas just as much faith

They are both ****e

mada999

yeah kicked it out of his hands...

Vicxas

Looks like it was kicked out of his hands

niallo27

The last replay showed he had control of it.

Knex*

I did 12 pubs last night. This isn't helping.

5starpool

Strumms wrote: »

How did the ref assist ? Enlighten us ? It was definately a corner and definately no free kick. Sooooooo ?

The ball hit off the ref in the build up and went to a Watford player about 5 seconds before the corner. These things happen, and I'm not trying to say the goal shouldn't have stood, so cool your outrage jets please. I was being a bit tongue in cheek.