Red Star Belgrade haven't been in the CL for over 20 years, so that will be no easy pushover either. Still we have the players to have a crack at this thing. We prob play PSG first..... right?
So here are the groups...Group D? Group A: Atletico Madrid, Borussia Dortmund, Monaco, Club Brugge Group B: Barcelona, Tottenham Hotspur, PSV Eindhoven, Inter Milan Group C: Paris Saint-Germain, Napoli, Liverpool, Red Star Belgrade Group D: Lokomotiv Moscow, Porto, Schalke, Galatasaray Group E: Bayern Munich, Benfica, Ajax, AEK Athens Group F: Manchester City, Shakhtar Donetsk, Lyon, Hoffenheim Group G: Real Madrid, Roma, CSKA Moscow, Viktoria Plzen Group H: Juventus, Manchester United, Valencia, Young Boys On our way!
Definitely a difficult group. We should be favorites to go through, but it will be far from easy and put a major strain on our squad. City, meanwhile, can play their reserves and still win their group. It’s an advantage to them in the title race.
The UEFA awards were a waste of time, as they gave every single one of them to a Madrid player. GK: Navas DF: Ramos MF: Modric FW: Ronaldo And Modric beats Salah for player of the year.
Definitely the strongest group imo . We're certainly capable of qualifying but so are PSG and Napoli . Red Star are a bit of an unknown quantity and may well be difficult too. Still all told I expect some more brilliant European nights at Anfield for the group stages as we spread our wings again.
We definitely will have to play strong squads for almost all of the games. Napoli without Sarri might be a little easier than previously.
This. Tuchel is a bottler. Rabiot is a Red. We can definitely get points in those matches. We battered Napoli in pres-season, but apparently they were behind us in training so who knows what that counts for. New manager, different system. We'll see how they go. Belgrade seems like a good old school tie.
We now have the squad to dog these away games if we want to. Play a midfield 4 of Fabinho, Hendo, Gini and Keita, with Salah and Firmino up top. Take the 0-0 if we have to.
This isn’t a Group of Death. We should be beating Red Star Home & Away. We should be beating Napoli and PSG at Home. That’s 12 points and we should comfortably qualify. We get the Glamour tie we all yearned for last year in Paris and Tuchel will attack us and you know how that can End. We are Liverpool and European Royalty and If Napoli and Red Star Belgrade constitute a group of Death,we are setting the bar really really low. YNWA
It's not an easy group but its one we should def come out on top of. PSG is hit or miss and Napoli played strong throughout all of last year in league play if they bring that they could put up a fight. I'd be surprised if we dont come out of the group stages on top.
This will be our upcoming schedule. Sep 15: Tottenham (A) Sep 18/19: UCL match Sep 22: Southampton (H) Sep 25/26: Chelsea (H) Sep 29: Chelsea (A) Oct 2/3: UCL match Oct 7: Man City (H)
We are away to Napoli on Wednesday October 3rd after the match away to Chelsea on Sept 29th and ahead of the match against City on Sunday October 7th.
No walk in the park but we can get through this group and with a tougher draw expectations can be better managed. Agree this will be a stern test of our squad and Klopp's ability to manage multiple competitions.