Liverpool FC vs Aston Villa - EPL - July 5

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  1. SamScouse

    SamScouse Member+

    Jun 1, 2015
    Toronto
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    Liverpool FC
    right now they're down a goal to Soton 55 mins in. :) come on Danny Ings!!!
     
  2. SamScouse

    SamScouse Member+

    Jun 1, 2015
    Toronto
    Club:
    Liverpool FC
    amid all today's frustration, easy to forget he kept us in the damn game at least 3 times.
     
  3. CB-West

    CB-West Member+

    Sep 20, 2013
    NorCal
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    Liverpool FC
    So, yeah...a drab first 45
    But...

    WINNERS!

    and still CHAMPIONS!!
     
  4. Suss

    Suss Moderator
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    Aug 11, 2003
    New York
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    Liverpool FC
    Klopp will continue to rotate. Henderson, Wijnaldum, and Firmino should all be back in. I think he rests one of the fullbacks. This could be Neco’s chance to start.

    The players that I would not rotate are Salah, Mane, Van Dijk, and Alisson. If Gomez needs a rest, play Fabinho at the back. No Lovren please.
     
  5. ewibe

    ewibe Member+

    Jun 4, 2015
    Stavanger
    Club:
    Liverpool FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Argentina
    It's ridiculous that a GK can be so good he can miss 1/4 of the season and still win the golden gloves
     
  6. CB-West

    CB-West Member+

    Sep 20, 2013
    NorCal
    Club:
    Liverpool FC
    It’s not just the goalkeeper...
     
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  7. ewibe

    ewibe Member+

    Jun 4, 2015
    Stavanger
    Club:
    Liverpool FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Argentina
    No but how many clean sheets did we get with Adrian in goal?
     
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  8. newterp

    newterp Moderator
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    Jun 6, 2007
    North Potomac, MD
    Club:
    Liverpool FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
  9. SamScouse

    SamScouse Member+

    Jun 1, 2015
    Toronto
    Club:
    Liverpool FC
  10. burning247

    burning247 Member+

    Liverpool FC
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    Sep 16, 2000
    Dallas
    Club:
    Liverpool FC
    Nat'l Team:
    England
    This is fair and valid. Klopp has WAY better eyes than I do and I (obviously) trust him over my instinct. I'm just saying, for all the hype around this guy and his vision and his "running the midfield," I don't see it. Now, that being said, his pass to Mane (especially after viewing it on that creepy camera angle just provided) was spectacular. He is clearly skilled. I just get frustrated that he doesn't impose himself on matches and then when we think he MIGHT turn a corner, he gets injured.
     
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  11. newterp

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    Jun 6, 2007
    North Potomac, MD
    Club:
    Liverpool FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    that's been the biggest problem. keep this in mind - he was first choice in the midfield more or less up and through Barcelona leg 1 in 2019 - only to be scissor tackled and injured (was it Greizmann?). And it was a bad injury - which he rushed back from to play in AFCON - that's both his fault and the Guinea FA for forcing him. Watch any highlights of that tourney - he was chopped down mercilessly all tourney long.....leading to another injury.
     
  12. zaqualung

    zaqualung Member+

    Jun 17, 2015
    San Francisco
    Club:
    Liverpool FC

    I think you are very wrong there. Keita has been possibly the best player inrecent games.
    Curtis Jones is a great prospect, but although he scored yesterday he didn;t actually play very well.

    I don;t get how people can;t see that a fit Keita is an asset like a David Silva or a Paul Gascgoine. It's very hard to find ground covering midfield dribblers who can pick a pass accurately while they are doing this...... He reminds me of a young Juan Roman Riquelme in this regard....
    Klopp, I believe, is quite aware of this. But he needs to not get injured so often.
     
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  13. zaqualung

    zaqualung Member+

    Jun 17, 2015
    San Francisco
    Club:
    Liverpool FC

    Totally different type of player. Freddie Lundjberg was a guy who did 50% of his most effective attacking (at least that much) without the ball. He was also a terrier like Firmino when arsenal didn;t have the ball....
     
  14. LorneMarvello

    LorneMarvello Member+

    Jul 1, 2014
    Club:
    Liverpool FC
    Nat'l Team:
    England
    they are both late into the box players
     
  15. LorneMarvello

    LorneMarvello Member+

    Jul 1, 2014
    Club:
    Liverpool FC
    Nat'l Team:
    England
    well we will see wont we and if hes still like this by the end of next season with the injuries still with him, im sorry hes a dud.
     
  16. zaqualung

    zaqualung Member+

    Jun 17, 2015
    San Francisco
    Club:
    Liverpool FC
    I agree he'll be on the way out, but that's the future. Saying he's a dud (IMO) is like saying Harry Kewell was a dud, whereas the truth of the matter is that Harry Kewell was a world class attacker who was unlucky to be hit by injuries that hampered his ability to perform consistently in his time at Liverpool.

    My firm opinion is that Keita was being watched by other big clubs for a reason .....
     
  17. zaqualung

    zaqualung Member+

    Jun 17, 2015
    San Francisco
    Club:
    Liverpool FC
    So was Gary Speed, but that don't make him like either of them.
    (And Paul Scholes. And Steven Gerrard. And Harry Kewell. And Luis Garcia.)
    Basically given the variety of ways of playing that late run, it doesn't otherwise equate to any necessary similarity.
    Keita, just by technique, is more similar to the other Arsenal winger of that time, Pires, than to Lundjberg. They get on the ball in nearly every attack. Lundberg would often appear just at the end of it with the coup de grace. In fairness, Lundjberg was as capable a forward as he was a midfielder.
     
  18. zaqualung

    zaqualung Member+

    Jun 17, 2015
    San Francisco
    Club:
    Liverpool FC
    Ah, I dunno -- it's a non-linear world. In a world where you can get 46.1% of votes of actual voters and still win the vote..... who can predict.....
     

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