Liverpool FC Team Talk, Gossip, Rumours 2024/25

What actually happened to Bajcetic?

They have been minding his injury for months I now forget?

Full team tomorrow(what's available) and hopefully we have a few ready for return in 2 weeks.

Bajcetic suffered a back injury at underage level in 2022 and it wasn't fully healed when he returned to training. He moved up to the first team squad and the pains he was experiencing in his thigh were thought to be a combination of him still growing and his body adapting to the increased intensity of the training level. Through a combination of the way he was moving in response to the back injury, the training intensity and the fact that his body was still developing his femur bone was damaged. In March last year he got injured. Initially it was thought that it was an abductor muscle injury but subsequent tests showed that the femur was stressed.

Everything looked good when he returned to training last summer and the medical team took the decision that it was best to ease him back into the squad. In September, the pain returned and the femur became inflamed. If the condition wasn't treated properly the miniscule cracks in the bone would lead to stress fractures and possibly end his career. He has been wrapped in cotton wool and every step of his recovery closely monitored since. The medical staff haven't been willing to sign off on his return to first team training until they are certain that he is fully recovered and that it's not going to flare up again.

Quoting myself 😋

Last year, the ballot for final tickets opened the day of the QF second legs for one week

13k tickets out of 40k went to the ballot (10k to each club), if they keep the ratios the same it would mean about 16k in the ballot this year

Yeah me too. I went in 2011 to the Porto v Braga final at the Aviva

I expect though the ballot will be impossible and the tickets will just end up on resale sites anyway

No details at all on the UEFA site. I set up an account on it thinking it would maybe then provide some info but nothing.

Was just about to ask the same thing. Seem to be going around in circles on the website.

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Fair play to Bremen on taking a chance there, but they're probably regretting it now. It's sad how some bodies just never seem to recover properly from injuries. No doubt there's a good player in there, but I can't imagine anyone seeing much of him again

Edit: just looked myself and he's been on the bench plenty, which suggests it's not just injuries keeping him off the pitch

Game will suit us today more than the last one at anfield. Cup game, so will be expected to attack us. Get a goal early they will crumble

Bruno will be playing today so that definitely means we'll have more opportunities than the 0-0 game earlier in the year. Yes he may create something going the other way but he'll leave tonnes of space for us to attack with his lack of positional awareness/responsibility.

Exactly. He may be the main creator for Utd but he is also their main disruptor of the team dynamic. When he gives up and starts moaning, they fall apart. He should never have been their captain. Harry for all his failings just doesn't give up.

They sat back and held us in the last game, did the same against City before finally tiring out. It will be a similar unless Bruno decides to do a solo run and they will be torn apart.

No Casermiro for United. Should be well able to win the midfield battle today seeing that.

• 62 Kelleher
• 2 Gomez
• 78 Quansah
• 4 van Dijk
• 26 Robertson
• 10 Mac Allister
• 3 Endo
• 8 Szoboszlai
• 11 Salah
• 9 Núñez
• 7 Díaz

Substitutes

• 13 Adrián
• 18 Gakpo
• 19 Elliott
• 21 Tsimikas
• 38 Gravenberch
• 42 Clark
• 53 McConnell
• 76 Danns
• 84 Bradley

Good to see Souness back debating with Keane, woke Sky kicked him to the curb because he said a game between men, was a proper mans game.

Kept the bench in numerical order 😄

I was coming here to say come on red men but come on you white and greens

Kelleher looks the real deal .

They just completely lost Garnacho there, terrible awareness

Could of been ahead now behind

Been a very fast start to the game, a bit wild. Shame to go behind, but as it calms I’d expect us to take control and start dominating chances.

United were always going to start fast in Old Trafford.