Welcome dear listener to the latest episode. I’m Paul and I am joined by Sean and Daz. The Reds win against Lille and Ipswich. Still top of the Premier League with a game in hand - 6 from Arsenal, 9 from Forest and 12 from City and Bournemouth. We’ll review Lille and Ipswich and then talk about the upcoming Champions League game against PSV and the Premier League away against Bournemouth plus a look around.
Part One - 7 wins out of 7. Lille’s 21 game unbeaten run comes to an end - xG 2.46 v 0.49
Some rotation - Bradley, Quansah, Curtis, Tsimikas
Unexciting, said Slot senior. Efficient I told my daughter
Salah finish - 50 European goals
Disappointing to conceded, but great to come back score and almost score a third (Chiesa and Darwin)
Part Two - Ipswich swatted aside - 4-1 - xG 1.98 vs. 0.48 (I think .28 comes from the goal)
Dominic Szobozlai catches the eye
Salah goes past Thierry Henry in the Premier League goal list - 176 over 175 (82 to 74 in assists
Cody is on quite a run of form - great pass from Trent. On 8 goals now, level with Luis Diaz.
Lots of players get rested. Subs tried but everyone else had taken it down a notch
McKenna claimed the numbers show his team competed - 16 shots to 3 - all 3 happened after we were 3-0 up. Over 300 final third passes, Ipswich had 30 (56% success).
Part Three - Coming up
PSV on Wednesday - PSV leading the Eredivisie.
Hopes, lineup and predictions
Bournemouth away - most difficult game so far?
Hopes, lineup and predictions
Season so far
Liverpool after 22 Premier League matches (Opta)
2023-24
2024-25
Goals
51
54
Shots
422
392
Expected goals
49.4
52.1
Goals against
19
21
Shots faced
241
201
xG against
24.8
19.4
Points
51
53
Arteta - a difficult spell for Liverpool - ‘they usually do’
Bad news Mikel - we need 11 wins in 16 to get to 86 points (and that assumes we don’t get any points in the other 5 games)
Arsenal’s hysterical title challenge
We will be back after February 2nd with a review of Bournemouth and PSV away - previewing Spurs in the Carabao, Plymouth Argyle in the FA Cup and then Everton away on February 12th..Thanks to Sean and Daz for joining me, Paul. And most of all, thank you dear listener for joining us.
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