PL 2021/22 Season

[RedReet]

GW21: Liverpool (H)
GW22: Man City (A)
GW23: Spurs (H)
GW24: ❌
GW25: ❌

Be interesting to see where Chelsea are after that sequence.

[Mark79]

[ame]https://twitter.com/lfc/status/1466471187794599945[/ame]

[Fosterbloke]

Imagine having a fully fit squad for the Christmas run of games..

[Assassin]

Imagine having a fully fit squad for the Christmas run of games..

Imagine the Little Tournament when Mo, Sadio and Naby lad are away

[Fosterbloke]

Imagine the Little Tournament when Mo, Sadio and Naby lad are away

Yeah it's a bummer but we'll have Minamino, Gordon, Jota and Origi to choose from. We seemed to do ok against Barcelona without Salah and Firmino.

[SB]

Yeah it's a bummer but we'll have Minamino, Gordon, Jota and Origi AND BOBBYto choose from. We seemed to do ok against Barcelona without Salah and Firmino.

Fixed it for ya

[Kenneth]

And Mbappe

[Buzzo]

2 home games next. Villa and Newcastle.

Chelsea have Leeds and Everton at home.

After Watford away today City have Wolves and Leeds at home.
All three teams will be expecting 6 points.

[Irishnev]

Shrewsbury at home in the Cup - nice

[frank the tank]

2 home games next. Villa and Newcastle.

Chelsea have Leeds and Everton at home.

After Watford away today City have Wolves and Leeds at home.
All three teams will be expecting 6 points.

Villa will be a tough game. They have some very good players and the likes of Watkins will fancy his chances. Gerrard has Villa playing.

[danperkins]

Imagine having a fully fit squad for the Christmas run of games..

Ssssssssh don't jinx it

[danperkins]

2 home games next. Villa and Newcastle.

Chelsea have Leeds and Everton at home.

After Watford away today City have Wolves and Leeds at home.
All three teams will be expecting 6 points.

yeah should be, hopefully we can get the likes of Joe, Keita, Milly and even Jones get some minutes that would be amazing for us.

[Exiled_red]

Is this for real?

https://www.thisisanfield.com/2021/1...for-liverpool/

Potential AFCON date change would be VERY bad news for Liverpool
December 12, 2021
Joanna Durkan

Liverpool are to lose Mohamed Salah, Sadio Mane and Naby Keita for the Africa Cup of Nations at the start of 2022, but a lobby for an earlier start could throw a spanner in the works.

The competition in Cameroon is currently scheduled to start on January 9 and run until February 6, in that time the Reds play two Premier League games.

It’s already a headache that Jurgen Klopp and co. will need to navigate and there is still uncertainty around the departure dates and if the trio will be available at Chelsea on January 2.

Requests will have been submitted to Egypt, Senegal and Guinea but Klopp said earlier in the month that “it’s not decided yet” if they’ll be available for the trip to Stamford Bridge.

But that could all be flipped on its head as Egyptian club Al Ahly are “lobbying the African football governing body to instead kick off AFCON on January 3” due to their involvement in the Club World Cup.

There were murmurings of Al Ahly asking the question following the confirmation that the Club World Cup will start three days before the end of AFCON, with a host of their key players to be involved.

And the Mirror‘s David Lynch has now reported as much.

The shift in dates would force an earlier departure for those involved in AFCON, with the guidelines stating players are to be released by the Monday morning of the week before the competition starts.

That would be December 27, a day after Liverpool’s match with Leeds and before the trips to Leicester and Chelsea, of which the trio would then be certain to miss.

Al Ahly, the club lobbying for a change, have urged the Egyptian FA to help resolve the issue and revealed as much in a statement on Saturday:

“This clash of dates will not allow the Egyptian national team to count on Al Ahly international players in the continental competition or will not allow Al Ahly to participate in the FIFA Club World Cup with the club’s full squad of players.

In addition, Al Ahly will not be able to take the club’s foreign players participating in the Africa Cup of Nations with Tunisia, Mali and Morocco to the FIFA Club World Cup.”

With the start of AFCON coming closer by the day, bringing the competition forward would have repercussions beyond just Al Ahly’s Club World Cup campaign.

It could be a case of it being too late into the year to make such changes but Liverpool and other Premier League and European clubs will not be resting easy just yet.

Surely it's too late to start dicking around with the dates of this now but the fact that this is even being reported shows what a joke the football calendar is.

[Norbs]

Easy solution

Cough cough, sorry we can't field a side for these PL fixtures

[ChesterDave]

If a continental international competition is rescheduled for the benefit of a single club team in a single nation it is beyond farcical.