Mings?
Mignolet
Yes. Sadly he's been relegated to backup now. Much more enjoyable when he was first choice.
Mings?
Mignolet
Apparently we've never lost to Liverpool in the league cup after 90 minutes. We lost the 82 final in extra time and in 2004 we lost on pens. Win or lose tonight, I do NOT want extra time.
It's not big deal if we have extra time, it will be a rotated team anyway.
I once went into a shop in Anfield to purchase a Kit Kat. Well, in fact I didn't go in. There were steel bars preventing access, like a garage at midnight. I told the "lady" (harridan) that I wanted a Kit Kat and she said;
Eeh? Yer wha? Yewanna wha? Ohh... a khhhihhh khhahhh
I wiped my face of spittle, and confirmed she was correct in her assertion.
It could have been worse. You could have asked for a Kit Kat, a can of Coca-Cola, a pint of Carling and a packet of crisps.
He would have been drenched.It could have been worse. You could have asked for a Kit Kat, a can of Coca-Cola, a pint of Carling and a packet of crisps.
You can win a cup without winning a single game. Winning the league takes around 25 wins. If the goal is simply to win a trophy, you have a better chance if you always play your best side in the cups and rest players in the league. It doesn't make you very appealing to sponsors though and you will ultimately suffer decline.
from another point of view, to win a cup you need to turn up and win 6 games, to win the league you only have to be better than everyone else on average over 38 games
the latter isn't unrealistic for us based on last season
Its a fair point however there is then the debate about whether wining the League Cup actually achieves anything. Money from the cup run isn't meaningful in the greater scheme of things, getting into the Europa is pointless and it certainly wouldn't really help attract players. So aiming to win is has to be based on things like 'success breads success' and actually that the silverware/honour is meaningful enough from a prestige etc perspective. For those of us who are say >30/40 years old it probably has more meaning but I'd expect that the younger the fan, the less meaning it has given people are now more used to CL football etc
I agree, i'm an older fan myself but I no longer care about anything that doesn't get you in the European Cup
I'm with you on that, though whether I class myself as 'older' (I'm 38) I'm not sure! The only real reasons why I would want us to win tonight are so that younger and fringe players can continue to get more game time and secondly to help slow-down the media love-in with Klopp which I find utterly perplexing
Apparently we've never lost to Liverpool in the league cup after 90 minutes. We lost the 82 final in extra time and in 2004 we lost on pens. Win or lose tonight, I do NOT want extra time.
I LOVE two at the back. 2-4-3-1 is the future.
Given the injuries/suspensions/Poch's comments/players who played in the last game, I now think the team will be this:
------------vorm
trippier----ccv----wimmer---davies
---------dier---winks
--onomah---carroll-----gkn
------------janssen
Ossie. What a player. Thems was the days.