Anfield waiting to conquer the Gunners








The Reds will proudly wear Owen McVeigh Foundation T-shirts during their warm-up today






Starting XI: Karius, Gomez, Matip, Lovren, Moreno, Henderson, Can, Wijnaldum, Mane, Salah, Firmino.

Subs: Ward, Klavan, Alexander-Arnold, Grujic, Milner, Solanke, Sturridge.

 Loris Karius starts in goal for Liverpool in this afternoon’s Premier League clash with Arsenal at Anfield.

The goalkeeper is one of two changes made by Jürgen Klopp, with Joe Gomez replacing Trent Alexander-Arnold at right-back.

I hope Grujic will get his chance in this match.
Oh, and Moreno starts??? That scares me.

Lovren and Moreno, aka the odd couple.

Lots of pace in the Arsenal team with Sanchez, OX, Bellerin and Wellbeck up against that back 5....worrying.

Id say he did when he found oht he wasnt starting! 😎

Missing another game, at a wedding, but it's actually a really nice event.

I have no idea what to expect with that side.

But i'll stick to my biased opinion we'll win 3-1.

Why is Mignolet not even on the bench?

Klopp confirmed that Mignolet is "rested". Is this codeword Barcelona are wanting to sign him? 

Klopp: "Simon is rested, that is all. He won the race and was really strong for us but we need the other two boys (Loris Karius and Danny Ward) also. For a goalkeeper it's a different intensity. He is in the stadium, we had no argument and I told him a rest makes sense."

That back line scares the sh*t out of me but our frontline scares the sh*t out of them,

Who dares wins, whoever scores more wins the 3pts.....

....my head says 3-1  but it could 6-5 ....

Love us to be up 3 inside 20mins ....again!!


YNWA

Interesting this because there's more to it than a 'rest', is it Karius pushing and this is Jürgen's way to keep him happy, or is it based on form?

I hear Mignolet wants talks with Jürgen in the next few days, not sure how I feel about that because on the one hand he's seemingly been dropped (I don't buy rested when it comes to a 'keeper) so would want clarity, but on the other hand he has no god given right for the jersey either, just win it back, Karius has been trying to do that for months now. There's no reason Simon should be treated differently, but there's something in this that suggests there's more to it.

Personally, Karius was harshly treated by the media, his mistakes were nowhere near as bad as they were blown up to be and for a new lad starting out in a new league I thought that was way over the top. I hope he can come in and prove them all wrong because I believe he's a very good keeper that just needs a run of games to build his confidence up. In terms of distribution and sweeping it's night and day where those two are, shot stopping I think Karius is better but he has to prove it for us, it's his ability to handle crosses and command his box which has me most worried and hopefully that's now been sorted.

The shock one for me is Gomez keeping his place ahead of Trent, but in this match, especially with the likes of Ozil/Sanchez lurking around that side I can certainly understand the need to be more sound at the back defensively. I believe we're going to smash these as long as the lads in the middle have decent performances, we can't afford any passengers in the engine room today or that's where we'll be punished.

5-0 Bobby hat-trick, Mane and Salah with the others