we go through this nearly every time and it’s the same result
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we go through this nearly every time and it’s the same result
they can play any of they’re team and still beat us
it’s how many they’ll get.
wish i could disappear for the weekend
siddharth
Player Valuation: £1.5m
And make some delicious morning Pancakesssss next day....
siddharth
Player Valuation: £1.5m
We need to see a performance we've never ever seen before... COYB
Toffeelover
Player Valuation: £80m
Is Salah not playing now that he is off to Saudi ?
WalterBecker
Player Valuation: £750k
I am optimistic because we have Pickers, Branthwaite, Onana, Garner, DCL, Harrison. Just am.
i totally get that every time we play at anfield but its just the fact we have a little form and harrison has injected some quality in there and experience and dcl is back -
they dont like playing early doors - i honetly think we are getting something here coyb
i belie
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TimHowardsBeardJuice
Player Valuation: £30m
Me too.
Dom scores at 3’ and it’s a basketball game, end to end for 90- ends up something like 4-4
ArtetaMagic
Player Valuation: £15m
Invited my kopite mate over to watch it. WTF was I thinking?!
BlueStevie35
Player Valuation: £70m
Not to be pedantic but we weren’t level in that game when that happened, we were 2-1 down because Quasimodo had scored twice when he shouldn’t have been on the pitch
Charles Hawtrey
Player Valuation: £40m
positive preview here for once - not good!
In their last 12:30 game they were a goal down within seven minutes at Wolves and needed a dramatic formation change, to an all-out 4-2-4, to turn it around.
Everton are savvier than Wolves and, counter-attacking down the wings through Dwight McNeil and Jack Harrison, they have the right tactical plan to cause some problems.
It won’t exactly be a repeat of Everton’s 5-1 win at Brighton last season, when they sat deep and counter-punched the high line, but the style of the game could be similar.
That is especially true if Liverpool don’t race out of the blocks, because an already-porous central midfield will be made to look even worse if that is the case.
Liverpool are allowing 41.3 progressive passes per game in 2023/24, a huge increase on their average of 29.0 the previous year, while their progressive carries against has risen from 13.3 to 19.8 per match.
In other words, opponents are finding it too easy to breeze through the lines, especially in the wide areas where Trent Alexander-Arnold and Andrew Robertson continue to look a little unsure in their new positions.
Trent Alexander-Arnold and Andrew Robertson are performing well on attacking metrics but falling short defensively
Alexander-Arnold is often caught scrambling back from central midfield to right-back while Robertson, nominally part of a back three, still occasionally roams forward, leaving Liverpool light on numbers in the transition.
Robertson will miss this game - and several more besides - with a shoulder injury but his likely replacement Konstantinos Tsimikas is of a similar ilk.
Sean Dyche’s direct football is perfect to take advantage of this: 8.7% of Everton’s passes this season are classed as progressive - a forward pass that attempts to advance a team significantly closer to the opponent’s goal.
That is the Premier League's second-highest figure behind Luton Town (11.4%).
Dominic Calvert-Lewin, with three goals in his last four, will be the target as long balls are aimed towards the shaky Virgil van Dijk, with the second balls to be picked up by Dwight McNeil and summer signing Jack Harrison.
Harrison, with a goal and an assist on his full debut against Bournemouth a fortnight ago, completes Everton’s front three.
The stars show how much more efficient Everton has been at putting their chances away in the past three games
All of a sudden Dyche’s side are able to put their chances away, scoring nine in their last four in all competitions, and with an xGF (Expected Goals For) figure of 14.7 this season (just 0.2 short of Manchester City), Liverpool should be concerned by their rivals’ goalscoring threat on the break.
On the other hand, Everton have only kept a single clean sheet this season and there is very little speed in their back four, which should encourage the likes of Darwin Nunez and Mohamed Salah.
For that reason alone Jurgen Klopp will expect to simply outscore Everton in an uncharacteristically entertaining Merseyside derby. But the visitors’ threat is far greater than it might at first appear.
Expect entertainment in Merseyside derby
- Liverpool v Everton
- TNT Sports: Saturday, 12:30 BST
- Home 1/3 | Draw 9/2 | Away 7/1
In their last 12:30 game they were a goal down within seven minutes at Wolves and needed a dramatic formation change, to an all-out 4-2-4, to turn it around.
Everton are savvier than Wolves and, counter-attacking down the wings through Dwight McNeil and Jack Harrison, they have the right tactical plan to cause some problems.
It won’t exactly be a repeat of Everton’s 5-1 win at Brighton last season, when they sat deep and counter-punched the high line, but the style of the game could be similar.
That is especially true if Liverpool don’t race out of the blocks, because an already-porous central midfield will be made to look even worse if that is the case.
Liverpool are allowing 41.3 progressive passes per game in 2023/24, a huge increase on their average of 29.0 the previous year, while their progressive carries against has risen from 13.3 to 19.8 per match.
In other words, opponents are finding it too easy to breeze through the lines, especially in the wide areas where Trent Alexander-Arnold and Andrew Robertson continue to look a little unsure in their new positions.
Trent Alexander-Arnold and Andrew Robertson are performing well on attacking metrics but falling short defensively
Alexander-Arnold is often caught scrambling back from central midfield to right-back while Robertson, nominally part of a back three, still occasionally roams forward, leaving Liverpool light on numbers in the transition.
Robertson will miss this game - and several more besides - with a shoulder injury but his likely replacement Konstantinos Tsimikas is of a similar ilk.
Sean Dyche’s direct football is perfect to take advantage of this: 8.7% of Everton’s passes this season are classed as progressive - a forward pass that attempts to advance a team significantly closer to the opponent’s goal.
That is the Premier League's second-highest figure behind Luton Town (11.4%).
Dominic Calvert-Lewin, with three goals in his last four, will be the target as long balls are aimed towards the shaky Virgil van Dijk, with the second balls to be picked up by Dwight McNeil and summer signing Jack Harrison.
Harrison, with a goal and an assist on his full debut against Bournemouth a fortnight ago, completes Everton’s front three.
The stars show how much more efficient Everton has been at putting their chances away in the past three games
All of a sudden Dyche’s side are able to put their chances away, scoring nine in their last four in all competitions, and with an xGF (Expected Goals For) figure of 14.7 this season (just 0.2 short of Manchester City), Liverpool should be concerned by their rivals’ goalscoring threat on the break.
On the other hand, Everton have only kept a single clean sheet this season and there is very little speed in their back four, which should encourage the likes of Darwin Nunez and Mohamed Salah.
For that reason alone Jurgen Klopp will expect to simply outscore Everton in an uncharacteristically entertaining Merseyside derby. But the visitors’ threat is far greater than it might at first appear.
bluechris18
Player Valuation: £100k
We need to be solid, and when we win the ball back make those first couple of passes count to get ourselves on the counter.
Do that and we have a chance.
But we’ve all been here before…
Do that and we have a chance.
But we’ve all been here before…
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