Liverpool FC Team Talk, Gossip, Rumours 2024/25

Not even slightly worried about Inter. Unless they buy Giroud or Jon Walters in the January transfer window. Then we’re f**ked.

Del Piero got his wish! His obvious attempt at a reverse jinx failed. 😀

Alessandro Del Piero's Liverpool admission ahead of Champions League draw

The elimination of the away goals rule actually hinders the likes of Inter, they won't be able to sit with 11 men behind the ball for the home leg.

Aye, and that 0-3 was apparently because we had Stuart Atwell on steroids in the second leg over there. Still stings for some of the (much) older supporters.

I really like their Review Show which comes out about a full day after a game / Monday evening.

There are some shows that keep you ticking along and have fans of the opposition come on the show, in the lead up the game. Can be handy for the European games when there is a bit more of an unknown.

They do a good PL wide one too, where again they get fans of other clubs on to speak too.

Then there are a few crap shows if I am being completely honest.

As above, some good shows and others I'd have no interest in. There's only a handful of them I like listening too so I don't subscribe (did for a bit before). In my opinion they put out too much content and have spread themselves thin but if it works for them fair play.

But on their app you can buy tokens and spend them on the shows you want to listen to instead of a reoccurring payment, probably works out as €.75 - €1 a show or similar. Which I'll do from time to time. I think they also give you free tokens if you download their app (they used to anyway) and you can use those to see if you like the other shows before subscribing.

Ok that’s interesting

I did get the sense from listening to the free shows that some of the premium content would be fairly skippable.

Anyway United got an even worst draw against Atletico, so that's something. Inter over two legs is doable,

So 1/4 final on paper should be

PSG

Chelsea

Bayern

Liverpool hopefully

Atletico

Man City

Juve

Ajax

Atletico are terrible this year, very lucky to come out of the group stages,

i think United will beat them handy enough,

Everyone gets injuries, who was missing for the group stages i can't recall any of there big names missing against Liverpool twice, ?

Also re The Anfield Wrap, I find that Neil Atkinson is the best and absolutely the worst thing about the podcasts. I find him intelligent and I enjoy his analysis of things I've missed myself in matches but he's domineering and I find (in the free content that I listen to) that no matter what he says, the other guests invariably say 'That's a very good point', even if he's talking unmitigated, Red-tinted bollocks. Far prefer Gareth Roberts.

yup.. long time subscriber.. gets me through the week and brilliant when walking the dog.. good characters and actually the analysis can be very good..

my faves are the preview show (mostly the day before the next game), theres a 30 min one after each match (sometimes from the stadium), the review then after that.

I went to a live show they did a few years ago in Dublin. There's another show called Agony hour...class...

Good characters and definitely would be lost without it. Deffo worth the subscriber fee for me.

Other ones I listen to from time to time: (which i dont pay for and are free)

Liverpool Echo - blood red

Kop On

Redmen TV

Non Liverpool ones -

The Guardian football weekly.

OTB The football show (good for when ireland are playing but they do have prem league stuff)

Red Agenda on The Athletic is good. I enjoy TIFO as well.

It's nice to have a home game after the away leg and the fact that it's against Norwich is a plus. For some reason I had thought that the game away to Burnley was immediately after the away game but it's before it which in some respects is better but it might give the Inter management notions of making the tie a kicking match.

Somehow, I think that's more of a coincidence than anything to do with Thiago. He has featured in 10 league games. He was also on the pitch for the losing goal against the hammers too. Milner has a similar record (1 conceded in 9 appearances), admittedly with fewer minutes.

Tsimikas has conceded none!

Not anymore he played against Milan ,

This season

Will it not encourage the 0-0 away from home, no onus on teams to try to attack and get the away goal - in fact a 0-0 away isn't a particularly good result in recent years.

What was the driver of this change by the way, what is the reason for it?

And it means more extra time as well, which is never good. The away goals rule always made extra time very unlikely.

To make matters worse, the away goals rule in extra time always meant that while the home team had the advantage of another 30 mins of the tie played in front of their own fans, the away team still had the advantage of an away goal counting double in that period as well. Now, the advantage is purely with the home team in that scenario which makes getting the second leg at home an even bigger deal.

Nothing about the Champions League knockout stages was broken, absolutely nothing, yet they've gone and tried to fix it anyway and just made a complete balls of it.

Every change that was ever made in football has been greeted with this 'leave football alone' mantra.

(Me poor great-uncle, bless him, who introduced me to football always thought the real game ended the day they allowed substitutes. It had been an absolute core of the game since the start that the XI who started was the XI who ended. And if a manager got the XI tactically wrong or a player got an injury then that was just something you dealt with.)

Probably about 95% of changes made to the game have actually been an unqualified success.

Fwiw i'm not a fan of this change but see no reason not to give it a go for 3 seasons. You then have the results of 100+ ties (qualifiers and knockouts) to see if it's a positive or negative outcome.

So they have the prospect of coming to Anfield immediately after being knocked out of Europe by Atletico. 😂

I think their ties will be during the run of league fixtures where they have Leeds, Leicester, Liverpool, Man City and Tottenham.

Its normally around this fixture where he makes loads of changes,

Everton home, Burnley away ,in recent years,

I hope Inter feel this way and come to attack us in both legs ,

Personally i think in the whole of Europe only City & Bayern are capable of taking the game to us and winning over two legs,

Of course a team can get lucky in a game but in one of those gams we will destroy you if you come on to us,