2022-23 UEFA Champions League

He needs an assist soon to get back to "world class".

He'll be tight to make the squad I'd say.

To be fair, Klopp is being forced into playing Milner every game more than choosing so. There's been widespread injuries in the midfield this season.

Thiago only coming back from injury tonight for 25 mins. Arthur's debut and clearly isn't fit. Thiago, Henderson, Keita, Jones, Ox all injured most of this season so far. Fabinho has had a knock and out of form. Carvalho injured tonight and not a midfielder as such. That only leaves teenager Harvey Elliot and Milner who have to play every game.

Milner has been shockingly bad in the games too, except for a cameo against Fulham on the opening day. Can't hack it at the top level anymore as a starter, let alone away against a team at the top end of Serie A. Fabinho & Henderson's form & fitness have not helped either.

Too soon?

I think saying Salah has downed tools is extremely harsh, he is 30 and has practically played every single league game for the last 7 seasons, averaging close to 50 games a season for 7 seasons and 5 of those for a team that play a high tempo press that requires incredible stamina. He is simply exhausted IMO and the team around him is weaker through injuries, Mane leaving, lack of transfers in and one or two guys being found out.

He has had goal chances though and fluffed them.Certainly had chances he would have scored a few years ago.

As someone above said he is probably a bit tired as are a lot of the team.

injuries are what are currently killing Liverpool

And also Klopp's loyalty , Likes of Milner, OX ,Keita should have all been show the door in the summer & two replacements brought in ,

Lets not forget with the amount of injures they have had 12 , it even makes it hard to put on decent training sessions

Salah been moved out wider because the plan was for Nunez to use the space left, he hasn't got a run yet for various reasons,

Liverpool WILL get going it just hoping its not to late by the time they do ,

Gary Neville speaks of a moment he knew he just couldn't compete anymore at United , i think it was away to Westbrom , I think Milner may have had one of those moments last night , he just can't do it anymore at that level ,

What I don't get about Liverpool is that they had a well publicized interest in Tchouameni - understandable as he's brilliant - but when it was clear he was off to Madrid, it was as if they just gave up on signing a midfielder. Did they not have a Plan B, C, D, etc? Buying Arthur appears a panic move since Klopp had ruled out midfield reinforcements when the season started.

Alot of fans seem to have pinned their hat on Bellingham. He's had one decent season but is being painted as some sort of messiah. The likes of Sancho had several strong seasons before leaving BD but according to the same people he was over hyped, over priced etc. Now alot of these comments are fairly accurate based on what hes delivered thus far yet Bellingham is gonna join the league and be a certified monster?

Thiago is a crock, no use being world class when you spend half the season in the sick bed. Robertson, VVD, Henderson, Fabinho, Firmino all look burned out. TAA having to try and defend is now being hugely exposed. Salah looks all at sea.

The problem facing Liverpool is that these players are all on really hefty contracts. We've seen it at United when the big deals are made many players switch off. You end up with a load of lads on huge money that is completely unjustified and they are very hard to shift. Wouldn't surprise me at all to see JK throw in the towel at the end of the season. Unless FSG buck the trend and invest huge money in the squad then its inevitable that they will fall away so rather than blot his copy book by trying to work with a squad of has beens and the occasional new face, he could decide to walk away.

That lad on the left wing would have had a field day against Milner.

Having said that, he had a field day against taa.

I suspect that the British clubs will be forced to play their games, even through the mourning period. There's no space in the schedule to postpone games before the WC.

Sporting may have won this. Paulinho with a header from the corner in the 90th minute.

They've certainly won it now. Sub Arthur Gomes with a nice solo goal.

Looks like Xavi is playing Marcos Alonso as a LB against Bayern. Don't see that ending well.

Lewandowski misses a sitter. This has been a good start from Barca and both sides look capable of winning. Davies giving Raphinha a torrid time down that left side.

Kenny Cunningham is a bad commentator.

To a certain extent.

To a full extent.

I'm turning over to BT Sport. I like Darragh but I can't listen to Kenny.

Unfortunately the alternative is Steve McMenamin, painfully biased and a painful accent.

Liverpool miss so many great chances and even when the goal comes it barely goes in.

Tons of updates last Wednesday. Not many updates tonight, apart from the Ajax goal. Odd that.