Thiago Alcantara

[John102]

Taking part in open training at the stadium.

 

Fingers crossed

[stringvest]

On 25/05/2022 at 16:02, Barrington Womble said:

I just think we will go longer if they're better in midfield. VVD will just take over and we'll hit our front men and trent. And as for stopping modric, we probably won't regardless of which of our midfielders play. He's a good player and you can't stop everything. But it's not a one man sport, it's a team game, so it's a question of what we do when he releases the ball. For instance thiago started on Sunday, it didn't stop wolves creating multiple chances through the 1st half. That wasn't specifically thiago's fault, we defended poorly as a unit. If we do that again on Saturday, we're fucked. What we need to do on Saturday is ensure we're as solid and in control as we can be without the ball and when we have it, we need to be less wasteful as we have over the last few weeks of the season. And that's not just the forwards. It's the final balls into the box when teams are open. It's being ruthless on set pieces when we have good aerial chances. We've dropped off significantly lately in those situations - in fact probably since the 2nd half of the city cup semi final. Getting to our best in their box is the most important thing we can do on Saturday. 

Fabinho will need to get around Modric - he would have stopped a lot of the nonsense against Wolves had he played.  We do need to be clinical with any chances we get.  I do think we will get opportunities on the break, and all we can do is hope Salah is on form and Diaz finds his scoring boots.  If we get 60 minutes out of Thiago, we'll win.  

[joe_fishfish]

Imagine if the whole thing was just an orchestrated troll to mess with Madrid's heads and he's actually fitter than he's been all season.

[aRdja]

Probably good omen given the result of the game, but I remember Bobby’s wretched performance in the final after what felt like a month long of “will he? won’t he?”. Much as I rate Thiago, If there’s any doubt then he should start the game on the bench and brought on if we need a result IMO. 

[3 Stacks]

11 minutes ago, aRdja said:

Probably good omen given the result of the game, but I remember Bobby’s wretched performance in the final after what felt like a month long of “will he? won’t he?”. Much as I rate Thiago, If there’s any doubt then he should start the game on the bench and brought on if we need a result IMO. 

Thiago played a week ago, there's no issue of sharpness. If he's not injured, there shouldn't be a problem.

[Aventus]

10 minutes ago, aRdja said:

Probably good omen given the result of the game, but I remember Bobby’s wretched performance in the final after what felt like a month long of “will he? won’t he?”. Much as I rate Thiago, If there’s any doubt then he should start the game on the bench and brought on if we need a result IMO. 

I'm worried that he's not 100% healed but they're able to stick him full of painkillers to get him through a one off game.

 

I wouldn't want to be in a situation where we bring him on and then needs subbing off again 5 minutes later because he's pulled something. 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Hello.

[Jimmy Hills Chin]

50 minutes ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

Hello.

He’s such a fucking dude.

[Tj hooker]

1 hour ago, joe_fishfish said:

Imagine if the whole thing was just an orchestrated troll to mess with Madrid's heads and he's actually fitter than he's been all season.

My lad has just said exactly this 

[JohnnyH]

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[JohnnyH]

1 hour ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

Hello.

 

[VladimirIlyich]

[an tha]

Good.

 

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/thiago-injury-spain-fixtures-liverpool-24122817

[Megadrive Man]

How is it good that he's injured again?

[an tha]

12 minutes ago, MegadriveMan said:

How is it good that he's injured again?

He won't be playing 4 games in that international shite and can focus on resting and getting ready for pre season/the season with us.

[Megadrive Man]

I wish he'd retire from International football.

He doesn't seem to be a big part of the managers plans anyway.

[ManéMan]

Don't think he gets games for them anyway 

[Aventus]

47 minutes ago, MegadriveMan said:

I wish he'd retire from International football.

He doesn't seem to be a big part of the managers plans anyway.

I think a fair few of our 30+ players will be retiring soon. With the world cup only being a year after the euros I reckon a lot of them thought fuck it, might as well squeeze one more in. 

 

Good chance this will be Hendo's last international tournament. He'll be looking at Milner and seeing how he has extended his career by binning of the national team early. 

[VladimirIlyich]

10 hours ago, Aventus said:

I think a fair few of our 30+ players will be retiring soon. With the world cup only being a year after the euros I reckon a lot of them thought fuck it, might as well squeeze one more in. 

 

Good chance this will be Hendo's last international tournament. He'll be looking at Milner and seeing how he has extended his career by binning of the national team early. 

I hope so with Hendo but I dont get that feeling.

[Barrington Womble]

The thing with the ways these tournaments have fallen, it's only another 18 months to the euros. Obviously it's in our interests for these players to stop playing international tournaments, but I just don't see players like Henderson dropping out, unless he's quite a distance from the team - like carragher used to be. 

[Caramac]

 

[Kevin D]

On 03/06/2022 at 13:31, Caramac said:

 

Hits it so fucking smooth.

 

A friend of mine, who doesn’t support Liverpool, immediately phoned me to ask if I had just seen that goal and whether it touched the ground.

[VladimirIlyich]

On 03/06/2022 at 13:31, Caramac said:

 

If Diaz had headed that clear he'd have another assist to his name.

[Kevin D]

 

[an tha]

Was listed on club site as returning to training on 4th July....but no sign of him so far....

 

 

Players returning for pre-season on July 4: Adrian, Carvalho, Davies, Diaz, Elliott, Firmino, Gomez, Henderson, Kelleher, Konate, Matip, Milner, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Phillips, Ramsay, Thiago, N. Williams, R. Williams, Van den Berg.

The remaining members of the squad will join pre-season training later in the week following their international commitments during the summer.