KO: 1945
Liverpool: Alisson, Alexander-Arnold, Matip, van Dijk, Robertson, Thiago, Fabinho, Jones, Jota, Firmino, Diaz.
Subs: Konate, Milner, Keita, Salah, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Minamino, Tsimikas, Kelleher, Elliott.
Leicester City: Schmeichel, Justin, Amartey, Ndidi, Thomas, Dewsbury-Hall, Soumare, Lookman, Maddison, Albrighton, Daka.
Subs: Soyuncu, Barnes, Tielemans, Ward, Iheanacho, Perez, Choudhury, Ricardo Pereira, Vestergaard.
After a comfortable 3-1 FA Cup win over Cardiff last time out, Liverpool’s uphill battle to catch league-leaders Manchester City continues, having previously recorded back-to-back Premier League (PL) wins. Despite going undefeated during the absence of Sadio Mané and Mohamed Salah (W5, D1), manager Jürgen Klopp excited fans by saying that he expects his AFCON finalists to return for this matchup with Leicester City.
As intimidating as ever at Anfield, Liverpool currently defend the only remaining undefeated PL home record this season (W7, D3), amid six clean sheets and six wins by a 2+ goal margin. The ‘Reds’ haven’t always had it their own way in Thursday fixtures though, winning less than half of the 15 PL matches they’ve played on this day (W6, D3, L6).
FA Cup holders Leicester were embarrassingly dumped out of the competition over the weekend, losing 4-1 to Championship side Nottingham Forest which heaped more pressure on manager Brendan Rodgers. Inconsistency has plagued the mid-table ‘Foxes’ this season, with each of their last 11 league fixtures producing a different result than the match prior although that run does include a 1-0 win against Liverpool in the reverse fixture.
As a result, Leicester have now won the two most recent PL H2H encounters, after failing to win any of the seven prior (D1, L6), and should former Liverpool boss Rodgers cause another upset here, he will become only the second manager to record a league double over Liverpool after leaving the club. That will be easier said than done after a run of four winless PL away games (D2, L2), although they could make it hard for Liverpool as they’ve scored in every PL road trip this season.
Players to watch: Liverpool’s Diogo Jota has scored six career goals vs Leicester when playing at home across all competitions, while five of James Maddison’s six PL goals for Leicester have arrived after half-time.
Hot stat: Liverpool have been losing at half-time only twice in their 35 games this season (HT: W18, D15).
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posted on 10/2/22
Matip assist if KDB did it they would have called it genius
posted on 10/2/22
Add Carvalho in the summer hopefully tie Salah down and keep all. Diaz/Salah/Mane/Bobby/Jota/Carvalho
posted on 10/2/22
comment by Terminator1 (U1863)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by Robbb : Toco en Hugo Duro! (U22716)
posted 2 minutes ago
Diaz looks great. From the outside to me at least it would seem Mane is the most likely to be dropped for him as he seems to be past his best. Is Mane most likely to be sold?
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I’d rather we kept our strength in depth tbh
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Problem is he’s only 18 months left and I can’t see us handing both him and Salah massive new deals.
Can see Mane moving this summer.
posted on 10/2/22
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posted on 10/2/22
I thought the ref was poor, and for Leicester player's they are a bunch of tart's, Albright went down like his was a dieing swan.
posted on 10/2/22
comment by KLS (U1695)
posted about a minute ago
comment by Terminator1 (U1863)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by Robbb : Toco en Hugo Duro! (U22716)
posted 2 minutes ago
Diaz looks great. From the outside to me at least it would seem Mane is the most likely to be dropped for him as he seems to be past his best. Is Mane most likely to be sold?
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I’d rather we kept our strength in depth tbh
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Problem is he’s only 18 months left and I can’t see us handing both him and Salah massive new deals.
Can see Mane moving this summer.
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Yeah, good point. Would be a shame, as it’s the first time in years that we’re not reliant on the front three staying fit.
posted on 10/2/22
Yer a big bid and he’s gone for me, shame as he’s been so good for us but that’s the game.
posted on 10/2/22
comment by Redvalk (U14242)
posted 19 minutes ago
I thought the ref was poor, and for Leicester player's they are a bunch of tart's, Albright went down like his was a dieing swan.
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Absolutely muck. Free kicks for breathing on them
posted on 10/2/22
comment by Rouge (U19907)
posted 19 minutes ago
comment by Redvalk (U14242)
posted 19 minutes ago
I thought the ref was poor, and for Leicester player's they are a bunch of tart's, Albright went down like his was a dieing swan.
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Absolutely muck. Free kicks for breathing on them
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Yeah ref was terrible tonight. The amount of times they'd get free kicks from running into our players was ridiculous.
posted on 11/2/22
Decent result but leicester came to keep the score down really.
Routine win.