Liverpool FC Team Talk, Gossip, Rumours 2024/25

The Rooster

If Liverpool had beaten Plymouth, we would 100% be playing City in the next round. But we didnt and most of us dont care

Although Carra definitely fixed the league cup semi final draw to ensure we played Spurs at home in the second leg rather than the reverse! But that wasnt pre-planned, he just saw the opportunity and couldnt resist

Talisman

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123157669#Comment_123157669

Are the team numbers for the FA Cup draw pre-determined, i.e. would Liverpool have received the same number as Plymouth had we won the tie?

Talisman

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123157494#Comment_123157494

I trust Slot to rotate the players where required, where as Klopp would run the midfield into the ground in the same situation. Players can get overloaded but Slot's team appear to be on top of managing the minutes and the training of the players.

McFly85

Trying to not look beyond tomorrow tbh - Moyes has Everton in decent form(although their opponents haven’t been that good), the last derby at goodison too I expect will generate some atmosphere. 3 points there would be excellent.

After that, just keep an eye on how Arsenal are doing. I expect them to drop some points along the way, but not many. Not entirely unthinkable that the game at Anfield could be a cup final - don’t know how my nerves would hold up there!

Ottoman_1000

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123157914#Comment_123157914

It will be interesting to see if this trip to Dubai has the same effect as it did last year for Arsenal. Before they went to Dubai last January, after 22 games they were 5 points behind us and stuttering. The came back revived, scored for fun and won 14 of their remaining 16 games, only losing to Villa and drawing with City.

The Rooster

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123157795#Comment_123157795

Yep. First tie drawn out in round 4 is ball number 1 for the round 5 draw and so on. So the winners of Plymouth/Liverpool would have been the same number ball in the draw no matter who won

citytillidie

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123157795#Comment_123157795

1st round the numbers are allocated alphabetically 2nd round your number is based then on the tie you were drawn. 3rd round the 1 to 44 is alphabetically for Premier League and Championship teams with the rest then assigned by the order of the tie from round 2, 4th round to Semi-finals the numbers for the draws are based on the order of the ties from the previous round

theoneeyedman

Trips to the middle east seem to precipitate good, injury free runs.......nithing shady there at all.

Toranaga

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123158573#Comment_123158573

I think the ship has sailed with regards to shadiness on that front but warm weather I think is pretty much scientifically proven to help with joints and muscles, no?

noodler

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123157830#Comment_123157830

Id almost have had that criticism on Alot before the dead rubber CL and FA Cup games came around.

Didn't feel like there was much rotation before then at all. I think Klopp rotated more on the whole, just that his system was more intensive in general

ledwithhedwith

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123157626#Comment_123157626

ah because the fa cup is better than the league cup. One is the treble and the other is a treble. Thats the way it is.

noodler

Ive certainly enjoyed the league cup more in the last decade but maybe no one will listen to a Liverpool fan cos it'll seem like it's just cos we won it a few times

Infoseeker1975

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123157541#Comment_123157541

I doubt that any Pool fan thinks the league is won; we have 6 matches before the international break in mid March & Arsenal have 5 matches. I would be happy if we matched their points in that run even though we play one more game.

If we did then we would be 6pts clear with 9 games to go & we play Arsenal at home.

Likely Arsenal will drop some pts in their 5 matches as they play Forest away, Utd [I know they are not good] away & Chelsea at home.

We have Wolves & Southampton at home which are must wins; from the other 4 tough matches we really need 8/9pts which will be very hard….. a win tomorrow night would make that target a lot easier…..both City & Villa are not exactly in top form either.

Pauliedragon

Rugby teams go and do warm weather training all the time.

ronjo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123159202#Comment_123159202

Funny that as an Arsenal fan I would absolutely take that too.

Hopefully after that we will have Saka and Martinelli back….Only way Arsenal are winning title imo is to win at Anfield so in my ahead (illogically) that would have the lead down to 3 points.

Talisman

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123158971#Comment_123158971

Slot explained in the press conferences why he chose not to rotate the team much in the first part of the season.

BorneTobyWilde

New displays at Anfield today, shame they'll have to remove in a few weeks when they're both gone.

😅

hmm I don't see Trent 🧐

ledwithhedwith

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123159045#Comment_123159045

Yeah I’ve enjoyed it more too. But the FA cup is a bigger trophy. I would be embarrassed to try compare a treble without it than a treble with it to be honest. I’ll take a league and nothing else this year anyway.

noodler

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123159359#Comment_123159359

Embarrassed?

Ah come on

Dr Robert

Historically the FA cup is much bigger. These days it's negligible tbh. Great to get domestic or European silverware anyway, whatever it is.

ledwithhedwith

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123159443#Comment_123159443

well I’d be embarrassed to compare a treble with a league cup than an fa cup one, especially considering two teams have done the treble.

~Rebel~

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123159605#Comment_123159605

If you're swapping out one of the two big ones and trying to equate the achievement, fair enough. But lets not pretend there's much/any difference between the FA Cup and League Cup these days. It's a different treble, but would be one to be very proud of none the less if it was achieved by someone. The word 'embarrassed' certainly shouldn't be near the conversation.

Besides, as you say, the other treble's been done twice already — no one has ever won the Premier League, Champions League, and League Cup in the same season. Be pretty cool for a team to be the first. All the 'league' titled competitions, nice symmetry to that.

ledwithhedwith

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123159663#Comment_123159663

okay well maybe embarrassed is strong , but I’d not be comparing the achievements.it would not be the treble but “a treble”. I would be over the moon for the league alone.

Rugbyf565

Everton are due a good humbling from us. Still remember that Van Dijk Pickford incident.Their fans have also have a certain entitlement for ‘success’ that pisses me off. They’ve been relegation contenders for a good 5 seasons now. Dyche did a proper job for them last season and they wouldn’t have stayed up without him, but they treated him horribly on his way out of the club. Their club has had a total transfer expenditure of €831 million since 2014/15 season (putting them 20th in the world in net spend). I feel a good 3/4 nil trashing would shut their fans up for a few months.

mormank

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123157654#Comment_123157654

The idea would be to try keep the bigger teams in till the later rounds to play eachother then. A city v Liverpool cup final is a much much bigger event than city and Liverpool in the 5th round.

Hasn't it been confirmed in the past that draws have been rigged?? With dodgy stuff happening on camera at a FIFA or EUFA draw of some sort? With Carlos or Maldini or someone picking out a ball only to put it back and pick another one… Could have sworn I read something about it in the last couple years but even if I hadn't you would be really naive to believe they have never done it imo and if they can do it once they can do it anytime.

The only Fa Cup I fully believe 100% wasn't rigged was that one Rod Stewart did a few years ago!!

kingshankly

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123159605#Comment_123159605

growing up in the 80s it was all about the “double “ nobody ever mentioned the milk cup as it was then even though Liverpool dominated the competition

~Rebel~

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123161061#Comment_123161061

Mad how much their profiles have changed since then, one significantly risen, the other collapsed from its heyday.

noodler

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123161061#Comment_123161061

Milk Cup?

Sure you'd be embarrassed…

Dick phelan

Difference from last year is Arsenal weren't down to 3 fit attacking players for the few games after they return. And the fact they'll have to play those 3 players a lot could easily see another injury.

noodler

PSG looked good tonight.

IrishOwl...

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123161320#Comment_123161320

they have being playing very well the last few months. They seem to have turned a corner the last few months and it looks like Dembele has found his old self. They'll take stopping in the ECL if they can keep it up.

BorneTobyWilde

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123161320#Comment_123161320

Easy to look good when all they had to handle was Brest. Different story coming to Anfield

ledwithhedwith

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123161118#Comment_123161118

cop on

BorneTobyWilde

https://youtu.be/cyKjlyJyvag?feature=shared&t=50

Borja Sainz would be a good purchase , if Jota is getting cashed in, in the summer .

Need fresh blood this summer.

Finding Championship far too easy

Oíche Na Gaoithe Móire

The cups are small fry. In the final of the Carbao so hopefully win it. Because when you get to a final best to win it. But really is all about the PL and CL.

brevity

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123161469#Comment_123161469

You have to keep your composure when handling Brest.

TitianGerm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123161670#Comment_123161670

Potential to end up with milk on your face.

ebbsy

A big buildup to tonight but I can only see an easy Pool win. Everton are very limited.

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dogbert27

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123161061#Comment_123161061

That was only after 85 though when we could not play in Europe. We had 3 European finals between 81 and 85 which would have been more a priority while also winning the Milk Cup from 81 to 84.

We won the double in 86 and had the opportunity to do it again in 88, 89 and 90 but fell short. That's why we remember the conversation of the league title and FA Cup more from the 80's.

If we weren't banned from Europe we would have been discussing European Cup finals more than FA Cup finals.

Talisman

Kick-off tonight is at 7:30pm, just a reminder in case anyone assumed it was later.

ledwithhedwith

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123161731#Comment_123161731

thanks for that! Thought 8

Dr Robert

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123161701#Comment_123161701

They've won their last three league games.

They also recently drew with Arsenal, City and Chelsea. City and Arsenal games were away too.

Whether limited or not they are well capable of getting a result on the night, no doubt about it.

This and the derby in April is their season now. They're out of the cup and will safely avoid relegation.

hynesie08

Any chance of getting Origi in on a one day loan?

8-10

Midfield needs to be the hero tonight.

I fancy an early goal.

Ottoman_1000

I was away all weekend, and because I seemly love misery, I watched the FA game last night. Didn't really care about the loss, but the most worrying thing about it was how bad Tsimikas and Elliot were, parasitically the former, jasus he was woeful. We badly need to upgrade a left back in the summer.

Anyways, onto tonight game. To be honest I'd take a draw here, obviously I'd love a win, but a loss could cause physiological damage going forward. We simply can't lose it. Everton are going to be so up for this, I'm slightly worried. A draw and a 7 point lead, I could sleep soundly off the back of that.

Talisman

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123161769#Comment_123161769

Judging them only based on what I saw in the cup game, they didn't have the fitness levels to live with Bournemouth. If we can squeeze them in the same way as Bournemouth did in the first half then the cracks will appear and it will come down to our players being able to take the chances that are presented.

Without a doubt they will start with gusto, but after 10-15 minutes I think that Moyes will want to make it a scrappy game because he knows that Bournemouth was only a dress rehearsal for what Liverpool are capable of.

Ottoman_1000

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123162254#Comment_123162254

Its very similar to the Forrest game, away to a difficult team to break down, in a stadium that will be bouncing with a crowd well up for it. And like the Forrest game, the first 15/20 minutes will dictate the outcome.

We can't do what we did that night against Forrest and concede a soft, stupid early goal. Everton will most likely hit us with their best for the first 20 minutes when they really have the crowd behind them. We have to try ride that out and sucker punch them.

dogbert27

Heard one journalist say in the press conference that it's currently 41 wins for Everton and 41 wins for Liverpool at Goodison Park.

A bit of extra motivation for Everton if they need it not to lose the last home derby.

Slot also seemed to be clued in to last years game saying something like 10 out of 11 50/50 challenges the referee blew up and gave the decision to Everton so it will be something the players will be aware of.

robwen

A cruel twist for the Gunners, Havertz out for the rest of the season after tearing his hamstring during the training camp in Dubai

Dick phelan

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123162678#Comment_123162678

Literally I said yesterday this would happen with all the games he was playing. Martenelli gone for a few games too. Down to 3 attacking players now. Let's be honest we have to win the title this year with how unlucky they've been.