Liverpool FC

4th Round draw Bristol City or Shrewsbury Town v Liverpool which was the last ball drawn in the main draw earlier. Thoughts?

^ Should get through with the ability to make changes and give squad players/players returning from injury a run out.

Liverpool took 37mins to score but I am still always concerned that once we take the lead we allow the other team to come back and almost seem to relax, this is not clever, as well as picking up silly yellow cards(Oxlade-Chamberlain & Gomez) but so far Liverpool doing well, Mourinho will have to come up with something else, at times it looked as if he was playing nearly six players at the back! Watching for the first time this year on Sky Sports-I can't believe Martin Tyler is still commentating.

Massive 3 points....bring on Man Utd.

I hope we play a lot better than that next week. At times Liverpool were sloppy and allowed them too much space, once Maureen-O changed his system. What on earth was Wijnaldum doing, he gave it away in such a stupid manner, keep the ball and get rid of it if someone is on you, don't pfaff about! Needless yellow cards picked up and a very average performance compared with the kids last week. Play better against Man Utd(at Anfield) and let's hope they put on a better show.

I think the United game will be an improved performance. In fairness the front 3 look to be on fire so just cut out the sloppiness in midfield we saw today and should beat them, they play the replay against Wolves on Wednesday too so hopefully that can take a bit out of them. Anfield should be buzzing for the game so that should give a lift too.

if you do go through this season unbeaten I would say hand on heart this team is a far better invincible team than the Arsenal one.

(12-01-2020 00:16 )babelover48 Wrote:  if you do go through this season unbeaten I would say hand on heart this team is a far better invincible team than the Arsenal one.

Yeah it's a big IF at this stage but if they do succeed in remaining invincible then Liverpool will have more wins than the Arsenal Invincibles and more than likely over 100 points too so it would be hard to argue for Arsenal's to have been the better achievement.

Long way to go though, I would love for Liverpool to go invincible but with the likelihood of going deep into the Champions League and FA Cup still very possible I feel a defeat might come at some stage of the season.

Klopp is good at rotation, but I would say from here on in, he is now facing the possibility that the youngsters will need to play in some big games during the run in and need step up to first team level very quickly. I would say that at the moment, you have a least a good couple of weeks before the CL resumes in February and the best thing he could do is get as many of the kids first team experience in the FA Cup and which PL games might suit them best, and try and rest players for the CL games and he does need to work out where priorities lie in the three competitions. How is the injury list looking atm? The players themselves also need to focus on staying disciplined not pick up red cards or silly bookings that could count towards a suspension (hopefully not too many may be facing a suspension) and of course staying injury free. The longer the injury/suspension list gets, the more difficult the task gets of remaining unbeaten becomes.

How strong a favourite would Stevie G be to take over when Klopp decides to quit atm? When you factor in how big a rebuilding job Stevie may hsve to do as well