FC Porto vs Liverpool - CL Last 16 (1st Leg)

[Kenneth]

Worst home defeat in Porto’s history also I read

In Europe I thought.

[Fredo]

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[Red_Polo]

Milner in that

[Leyton388]

Tuesday night: Man City record biggest-ever away win by an English club in Champions League knockout stages.

Liverpool Football Club: "Hold our drink."

[Shaggy]

Tuesday night: Man City record biggest-ever away win by an English club in Champions League knockout stages.

Liverpool Football Club: "Hold our drink."

Seriously not once did I hear anyone, pundits or fans, asking did City only win 0-4 cos Basel are wank. All I'm getting tonight is "Porto are wank".

[Fredo]

That's par for the course. We do the same thing when Spurs or United do well for example. There's no rationality in it.

[Norbs]

"Hold our drink."

[Fernandinho]

So pumped for this game

Great start to the thread including NSW times too. Working from home on the Thursday so I can watch this live and uninterrupted in the morning too.

Got a feeling Mane has a few goals in him for this one. Salah is handy and chips in with the odd goal too.

I just missed the Firmino goal prediction what a bloody game! Very interested to see how both team respond with their line ups for the next game considering the tie is effectively over. They have big games coming up in the context of their league and we play United away on the weekend of the second leg, while united have the whole week to prepare.

Be interesting to see how Klopp manages it.

[Paddy]

Seriously not once did I hear anyone, pundits or fans, asking did City only win 0-4 cos Basel are wank. All I'm getting tonight is "Porto are wank".

Remarkably - RTE managed to avoid that line. They simply came to the conclusion that Liverpool were outstanding. Said VVD will turn out to be a brilliant signing. And praised the front 3 massively.

Said Porto played into our hands a little bit, which is true

[Chris]

I just missed the Firmino goal prediction what a bloody game! Very interested to see how both team respond with their line ups for the next game considering the tie is effectively over. They have big games coming up in the context of their league and we play United away on the weekend of the second leg, while united have the whole week to prepare.

Be interesting to see how Klopp manages it.

Yeah it’s a nice position to be in. Could easily see it through with something like Karius, Trent, Matip, Dijk, Moreno, Can, Milner, Lallana, Ox, Ings, Mane or something then bring in 6 or 7 fresh faces for Utd. Or the first team can just stroll around but if you get a chance to rest players in March you absolutely take it!

[Ams12]

How do you make gifs as your display picture!?

I want Firmino & Mane’s kick celebration!

Or Salah’s juggling in the box goal


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[Fosterbloke]

I just missed the Firmino goal prediction what a bloody game! Very interested to see how both team respond with their line ups for the next game considering the tie is effectively over. They have big games coming up in the context of their league and we play United away on the weekend of the second leg, while united have the whole week to prepare.

Be interesting to see how Klopp manages it.

There's still a game to be won but we can probably afford to rest our front three.

Solanke, Ings and Oxlade up front?

[Fernandinho]

Yeah it’s a nice position to be in. Could easily see it through with something like Karius, Trent, Matip, Dijk, Moreno, Can, Milner, Lallana, Ox, Ings, Mane or something then bring in 6 or 7 fresh faces for Utd. Or the first team can just stroll around but if you get a chance to rest players in March you absolutely take it!

Yeah agreed. Wouldnt be surprised to see Klavan and whoever isn't starting vs united out of Lovren and Matip start. Defence to be fully rotated for the United game. Midfield to be Lallana, Can and Milner as you suggested seems to make sense.

Would be great if we can start Solanke Ings and Ox up front. We could pretty well rotate the entire 11 if we did that.

The ultimate result for us would be to see Porto field a weakened side to save their players too.

[Shaggy]

Porto know they're not gonna win 0-6 at ours, so I reckon they'll give up the ghost and make some changes too - though I've no idea of their domestic situation tbh.

Big changes 2nd leg for us imo. Big hitters on the bench in case we go 0-2 down. Ideal situation for us.

[Ams12]

Porto are pretty comfortable top of their league...currently unbeaten in fact. However im not sure on what domestic games of importance they have around our 2nd leg. Would imagine they rest some of their top players for the domestic challanges as overcoming a 5-0 at Anfield will be a hard task.

Tough to think how we should approach the 2nd leg...
Almost full strength but with early subs? Potential risk of injury to key players for the united game. Or ability to bring on rested stars if need to up the performance.

Heavily rotated side? May take away some momentum in our play for the following game. But at least our key players would be rested for man u.

Suppose a good headache to have!


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