Pre Season Match Thread: Liverpool v Yokohama F.Marinos

[miller0863]

Morning ladies. I believe this is today’s starting line up.

Marmadashvili
Bradley Konate VVD Kerkez
Szoboszlai Gravenberch
Salah Wirtz Gakpo
Ekitike

Subs: Woodman, Pecsi, Endo, Nunez, MacAllister, Jones, Elliott, Tsimikas, Robertson, Frimpong, Ngumoha, Morton, Stephenson, Nyoni

[Ravo19]

wow,strong premiership line up

[justme]

Morning ladies. I believe this is today’s starting line up.

Marmadashvili
Bradley Konate VVD Kerkez
Szoboszlai Gravenberch
Salah Wirtz Gakpo
Ekitike

Subs: Woodman, Pecsi, Endo, Nunez, MacAllister, Jones, Elliott, Tsimikas, Robertson, Frimpong, Ngumoha, Morton, Stephenson, Nyoni

who on that bench would be considered a centre defender?

[miller0863]

Endo and Robbo?

[Diego20]

Endo and Robbo?

That'll win us the league and champions league!!!

Let's hope VVD somehow stays super-man and plays every game and not get injured, konate is made of biscuits more and more too.

[Insidious]

That'll win us the league and champions league!!!

Let's hope VVD somehow stays super-man and plays every game and not get injured, konate is made of biscuits more and more too.

Endo and Robbo being utilised sparingly in centre-back roles (less than 5 games a season in a 60-game season, all comps) would be absolutely fine - it's only if we don't get that fourth centre-back in that it's an issue.

Robertson, Endo and Gravenberch are all perfectly capable of "doing a job" there in an emergency and provided it only ever is in genuine emergencies of injury crisis, we're fine.

A League Cup match or a Champion's League group phase match where Endo partners Van Dijk (if we're high in the table) wouldn't phase me.

Champion's League quarter-finals obviously a different story

[miller0863]

Some nice touches from young Hugo

[justme]

seems we will have to get use to teams playing 10 at the back

[miller0863]

Salah should have two assists, excellent passes to Gakpo and then Szoboszlai but neither could get the ball out from under their feet

[Daffydd]

No Ben Doak due to an issue with his passport? Wtf

[justme]

They realized he wasn't Japanese..
anyway games gone to shit now..

[justme]

that header from the opposition player was at least 2 yards offside

[miller0863]

Yep. No cohesion and none of the players look anything like match sharp yet.

[Ravo19]

nunez hat trick 2nd half

[faridtoxteth]

Think our lads have done alright so far. Lots of new players, not fully match fit, getting used to each other and where they play. Also mitigating is the fact that pitch looks awful, and the way the ball travels and moves on the pitch. The surface is so bad in places that it even makes Wirtz first touch look off!