Man City vs Liverpool - Premier League (20/21 - Game 8)

[Shaggy]

[ame]https://twitter.com/dmlynch/status/1324664756939169793[/ame]

[Pablo]

****. Either way I'm glad he's not off to play for Spain but it does leave me concerned the injury is more troublesome than we thought.

[Pablo]

Hmm it looks like he's in the background training here if you look carefully so maybe it's just precautionary:

[ame]https://twitter.com/LFC/status/1324647584061923328[/ame]

That is him in the background with the red boots on right?

[Buzzo]

https://twitter.com/dmlynch/status/1324664756939169793

I think a safety first approach makes sense. I'd rather he missed the City game and internationals and we get him for the rest of the season than rush him back and risk injury over the next 2 weeks.

If we play like we did against Atalanta, City will have their hands full.

[Montana]

Hmm it looks like he's in the background training here if you look carefully so maybe it's just precautionary:

https://twitter.com/LFC/status/1324647584061923328

That is him in the background with the red boots on right?

It definitely looks like Thiago there in the background

[RedReet]

I think a safety first approach makes sense. I'd rather he missed the City game and internationals and we get him for the rest of the season than rush him back and risk injury over the next 2 weeks.

If we play like we did against Atalanta, City will have their hands full.

While that's probably the sensible approach and I'd maybe do the same, it's still a bit hard to stomach if he makes his PL return at the same time as that f*cker Richarlson.

[Buzzo]

I'm going to go out on a limb having watched 'inside training' in its entirity and predict that Jota starts and Bobby remains on the bench.

[RedReet]

I've predicted that Bobby will start as he's Klopp's go to man for big games, but I guess Jota has the advantage of being harder to prepare against for Guardiola. Even though he might watch videos and study his style, it will still be hard to prepare as Jota could start in any of teh forward 3 positions and frequently change throughout the game. With Firmino, he's knows exactly what he's up against.

I love Bobby and would find it very hard to drop him, but equally it's hard not to get excited by seeing the same front 3 as Atalanta.

[Buzzo]

I thinks it’s impossible to not play Jota just now.

The extended clip they showed didn’t feature any of the starting lineup, but did feature Bobby with Shaq, Milner, Williams etc.

[Mark79]

I've predicted that Bobby will start as he's Klopp's go to man for big games, but I guess Jota has the advantage of being harder to prepare against for Guardiola. Even though he might watch videos and study his style, it will still be hard to prepare as Jota could start in any of teh forward 3 positions and frequently change throughout the game. With Firmino, he's knows exactly what he's up against.

I love Bobby and would find it very hard to drop him, but equally it's hard not to get excited by seeing the same front 3 as Atalanta.

Pep’s known what to expect from Firmino since he’s been here, it’s rarely ever helped him. Bobby is always great at disrupting them in these games, I don’t think they’ve ever really found an answer to him. Apart from when we’ve been down to 10 men, or still drunk from celebrating the title

[RedReet]

Pep’s known what to expect from Firmino since he’s been here, it’s rarely ever helped him. Bobby is always great at disrupting them in these games, I don’t think they’ve ever really found an answer to him. Apart from when we’ve been down to 10 men, or still drunk from celebrating the title

Ha, if we don't win, one set of armchair supporters will have a field day.

Get the 3 points and nobody will care if it's Origi that starts up front.

[rudedog]

Ha, if we don't win, one set of armchair supporters will have a field day.

Get the 3 points and nobody will care if it's Origi that starts up front.

Apart from Origi maybe

[Shaggy]

[ame]https://twitter.com/_pauljoyce/status/1324692139234729984[/ame]

[Corndog]

If it were up to me, I'd go for this:

----jota-----------Mane-----------Salah
-------Gini------Hendo----Milner
----Robbo--Gomez--Matip----TAA
------------------Alisson---------

Subs:

Adrian,
Phillips,
Firmino,
Shaqiri,
Tsimikas,
Keita,
Jones

[frank the tank]

I think I would agree. Not sure if Milner will start though. Huge call in midfield.

If it was Curtis Jones, then that would be huge backing by Jurgen. Perhaps Keita instead ......but not sure we would start with Keita and Matip both back on their first starts after injury in this game.

To have Shaqiri and one of our front 4 (Bobby or Jota) on the bench is great. Options if we need them.

A win here - without Virgil, Fabinho and Thiago - arguably our 3 best outfield players (and if not "best" then perhaps most important) would be ****in huge for us.