Back by popular demand... Liverpool travel to Leicester City to face the foxes on Monday evening Feb 27. Kickoff is at 8pm GMT. Time zone converter Vs The defending champions currently sit 17th in the table, having gone winless in the league in 2017 with 6 straight losses. They have not scored a single goal in the league in any of those matches. In the first match at Anfield in front of the new Main Stand, Liverpool won convincingly 4-1. They will be coming off a trip to Sevilla in the last 16 of the CL the Wednesday prior, but given this game is on a Monday, both teams should have ample rest. Here's hoping for a solid road win and perhaps a shutout (maybe don't play Lucas at CB just to be safe). Klopp needs to minimize their ability to counter and keep their confidence low. Prediction: 2-0 win to the good.
According to TAW, Lovren has been ruled out for this match. Options are Lucas, Klavan or Gomez. Lucas played well against Spurs so I would guess he will play. Just hope he can put another good performance together. Can't give these guys anything easy.
This game is still a (little less than a) week out, Lovren can't recover? Wouldn't start Lucas over Klavan ever. He did well against a hapless Spurs, sure but he's not someone who should have our faith to do that game after game.
Doubtless the Foxes will play their best league match of the season on Monday. Hopefully it won't be enough and we'll get the win.
today's result will help their confidence, but they were outplayed for so long that I'm sure Klopp and his staff will have seen enough to focus our tactics. mind you, they only had 27% possession and scored with one of their two shots on target.
Ranieri sacked. Shame really for such a nice guy but they had to do something. no news on a replacement. Harry Redknapp maybe?
Ludicrous. How does a team sack a manager that wins them the league against all odds and then loses arguably his most important player in Kante? Unreal.
In this case, I don't see things getting too much better for Leicester. Last year was a dream, and now they are back down to reality. As nice as the fairy-tale was, I hope a re-invigorated and re-focused Liverpool tear them to shreds. That'd satisfy both my desire to see Liverpool do well and seeing the Leicester team suffer after canning the guy that led them to their dream season last year.