FIFA World Club Cup 2019

[Fivex]

Let’s crowdsource foster the best health insurance on the market

[baitman]

It might not be the magic match threads that FB does for us all but lets not jinx anything.
Keep wearing the lucky pants, don't change anything

[Fosterbloke]

Let’s crowdsource foster the best health insurance on the market

I live in Australia so I'm pretty covered thanks

[SB]

I live in Australia so I'm pretty covered thanks

And the Optus sport times are the best mate.

[BobTheCharmer]

**** off Bob, people ask me to create these threads but you see fit to laugh at my attempts to promote them?

Stop being so ****ing serious. Relax dear. You remind me of a school prefect that has been tasked to keep tabs of anyone that sneaks out of premises during lunch.

You do a good job with them, but don't think the world will stop spinning if you don't.

Crack on.

[Liverpool]

FB moving people to the right thread.
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[BobTheCharmer]

[Fosterbloke]

Stop being so ****ing serious. Relax dear. You remind me of a school prefect that has been tasked to keep tabs of anyone that sneaks out of premises during lunch.

You do a good job with them, but don't think the world will stop spinning if you don't.

Crack on.

No one thinks that, just thought I'd point out the thread I created as I thought we could talk specifically about that match rather than the World Club Cup in general.

But by all means, make inane comments about it.

[Harv]

**** off Bob, people ask me to create these threads but you see fit to laugh at my attempts to promote them?

flmao. Promoting threads? Get a social media influencer on board

[Harv]

I am fully convinced our upturn in form coincided with your threads ......jokes aside I actually use them to check times etc - they are excellent

I can't do that as he always leaves CST off. Includes every other part of Australia but the centre. Poor workmanship if you ask me. Leaves me having to work out daylights savings and if its half hour in front or back. Outrageous in this day and ages IMO.

[Fosterbloke]

flmao. Promoting threads? Get a social media influencer on board

I'm sure even you understand what that word means. Bloody Harvwit.

[Harv]

What word?

[Yozza]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/50763243

Liverpool at Club World Cup: Five reasons why Qatar tournament matters to Reds

With nine games to pack in during a busy December, the last thing Liverpool need is a trip to Qatar in the middle of it all, right?

Wrong. The Club World Cup may appear to be an unnecessary inconvenience for the Reds but there are benefits that could make it an important diversion.

We at BBC Sport have put together five reasons why Liverpool - and you - should care about the tournament.

A step on the path to history?

No English men's professional team have ever won more than four trophies in a season. Liverpool could yet finish the campaign with six.

At the start of the season, they were in contention for seven - but the first one got away in August as they lost to Manchester City on penalties in the Community Shield.

They then beat Chelsea on penalties to win the Uefa Super Cup, and head to the Club World Cup sitting 10 points clear at the top of the Premier League. In addition, they still have the Champions League and the FA Cup to go for, as well as the Carabao Cup - if the players left at home can see off Aston Villa in Tuesday's quarter-final.

Arsenal Ladies once won six trophies in a season, in 2006-07. Could Liverpool match them?

Klopp means business

Don't try to tell Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp that the Club World Cup is an inconvenience. Not now he is getting a taste for success at Anfield.

"We don't take it for granted, not at all, but when we go, we want to win it," Klopp said in November. "The only reason for us to go there is for the opportunity to win it, and that's what we'll try."

Until this year, Klopp had a pretty horrible record in finals. After winning the German Cup in 2012 with Borussia Dortmund, he lost his next six major finals as a manager, culminating in Liverpool's 3-1 Champions League defeat by Real Madrid in May 2018.

Beating Tottenham in Madrid on 1 June this year to win the Champions League put an end to that run. Now he wants to keep adding the silverware.

A World Cup dress rehearsal for the players

The Club World Cup is taking place in Qatar. The 2022 World Cup is taking place in Qatar. See where we are going with this?

Plenty of the Liverpool squad are likely to return to Doha in three years with their national teams. The Club World Cup will give them the chance to get a feel for the conditions first hand - and at the right time of year.

Most of the 2022 World Cup will take place in December. Temperatures won't be as high as the 41C they can reach in the sweltering summer months, but will still reach a pretty toasty 30C. Players will get to see how their bodies deal with that sort of heat over 90 minutes.

Also, the Club World Cup final is taking place at Doha's Khalifa International Stadium, which is one of the venues for the World Cup.

All in all it should be a decent scouting expedition.

Money, money, money

Winning the Champions League not only bagged Liverpool plenty of prestige, it also offered the chance to earn an extra £8m.

Granted, that's a drop in the ocean in today's world of football finances, but in terms of the club's previous transfer spending, think of it as one Andy Robertson or two Joe Gomezes.

Where does the £8m figure come from? Well, Liverpool's Champions League win secured their ticket to the Uefa Super Cup final and the Club World Cup. Prize money for winning each is £4m. Klopp's side have won one, now they chase the other.

Not bad for three games' work.

A first win and revenge for 1981

Finally, this is a trophy that Liverpool have never won. They played in the 2005 final but lost 1-0 to Sao Paulo.

There is also the chance for revenge.

Favourites to reach this year's final are Liverpool and South American giants Flamengo - which would be a rematch of the 1981 Intercontinental Cup final, the precursor to the Club World Cup.

Back then, Liverpool were beaten 3-0 in Tokyo by a Zico-inspired side.

In the 38 years since, Liverpool have won six English top-flight titles and been champions of Europe three times. But the honour of being world champions has so far eluded them.

Maybe this is their year?

[Buzzo]

Looks like Virgil May be a doubt for Saturday with illness.

Best timing for him to miss games though

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The centre-back missed Wednesday evening’s 2-1 last-four victory over Monterrey in Qatar due to illness – and Jürgen Klopp admitted it was too early to tell whether he would return at the weekend.

The manager said: “It was an easy decision actually because he couldn’t train.

“Yes, he was yesterday on the [training] pitch for a couple of minutes until the media left [the session] and then, unfortunately, he had to leave as well. Not because of the media, just because he didn’t feel well.

“So yesterday no training was possible, this morning no training possible, so it was an easy decision – he couldn’t play. It was difficult for Hendo to deal with, but he did really good.

“We will see, I don’t know how quick he can recover. We will see.”

[Roboklopp]

Ffs