UEFA Cup 2023-24

[AngryOfTuebrook]

13 minutes ago, Aventus said:

Which Premier league games to we have in between those? 

 

[Kevin D]

Be interesting to see how defensive those teams are in comparison to our usual European opponents.

[Anubis]

I’m surprised Leicester haven’t kicked off about the Carabao fixture given Sky have them slated to play the Friday night EFL game.

[sir roger]

Couldn't have hoped for much better than the fixtures Angry put up.

[TD_LFC]

That's that sorted then.

 

 

[Megadrive Man]

Thank fuck for that!

 

I'd have been majorly pissed off if we'd not selected Doak as this is the perfect opportunity to get him in the first team. 

 

Really looking forward to this now. 

[Razoray]

14 hours ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

 

Negatives:

We play at 12:30 Saturday after the forst two international breaks. 

We play Manchester City after the 3rd international break. However they'll be in a similar boat. 

We play Spurs 3 days after the league cup game and they'll have a free week. 

The derby is 12:30 on a Saturday and we struggle at that time. However, our record against them at Anfield is excellent. 

 

Positives:

We play West Ham and Brighton on the Sunday after Europa games. They'll also have played Thursday night. 

The 3 away Europa games are early so the players will be home at a reasonable hour on Thursday night. 

We should not need to play (m)any first team players v Leicester at home in the league cup. 

We play at home v Forest, Brentford and Fulham on Sunday after the Europa. They could have been more awkward. Hopefully we will have not need to use many 1st team players in the final two games. 

[Megadrive Man]

I expect our Europa group stage team to look something like;

 

                    Kelleher,

Gomez, Matip Quansah, Tsimikas

            Bacjcetic,Thiago,Elliott

              Doak,Nunez,Jota

 

[TD_LFC]

https://www.uefa.com/uefaeuropaleague/clubs/7889--liverpool//squad/

 

As reported last week by Lynch, Adrian not named in the squad, Jaros comes in as 3rd keeper.

 

Doak and Bobby Clarke make the main squad, Elliott, Quansah and Bjacetic in the B team.

 

 

 

 

[Lee909]

Giving Adrian another contract was a complete waste of a non HG spot. Think we still had one spare but it could easily have made things difficult. I'm a bit surprised we didn't leave Alisson out of the squad for the group games as you'd doubt he would even travel let alone play. 

[Scott_M]

On 05/09/2023 at 12:56, Megadrive Man said:

I expect our Europa group stage team to look something like;

 

                    Kelleher,

Gomez, Matip Quansah, Tsimikas

            Bacjcetic,Thiago,Elliott

              Doak,Nunez,Jota

 

You can add Gravenberch & Endo to that squad as well, at least initially while everyone is settling in.

Wouldn’t surprise me if VVD or Konate are involved next week. 
 

We’ve got a good squad. Maybe not enough this season to challenge for the League & CL, but we’re not in the CL this season, the above players are good enough to get us at least past the group.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

You'd have to fancy us to win all our home games in this group.  Now we've won one away game and USG and Toulouse have both dropped points, we're already clear favourites to win the group.

[Jurgen Knows]

We’ve been favorites to win the group even before a ball was kicked. 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

On 04/09/2023 at 22:25, AngryOfTuebrook said:

 

I missed this last one.

 

Three short hops to Western Europe, all against teams that don't demand our strongest XI, followed by three home games, two of which are against teams who have also had a midweek match.  I don't think we could have asked for a much better draw.

 

[VladimirIlyich]

On 05/09/2023 at 12:54, Razoray said:

Negatives:

We play at 12:30 Saturday after the forst two international breaks. 

We play Manchester City after the 3rd international break. However they'll be in a similar boat. 

We play Spurs 3 days after the league cup game and they'll have a free week. 

The derby is 12:30 on a Saturday and we struggle at that time. However, our record against them at Anfield is excellent. 

 

Positives:

We play West Ham and Brighton on the Sunday after Europa games. They'll also have played Thursday night. 

The 3 away Europa games are early so the players will be home at a reasonable hour on Thursday night. 

We should not need to play (m)any first team players v Leicester at home in the league cup. 

We play at home v Forest, Brentford and Fulham on Sunday after the Europa. They could have been more awkward. Hopefully we will have not need to use many 1st team players in the final two games. 

Negatives= Fuckin' International breaks. FFS.

[Pete]

How come the Manc game is still a Saturday 3PM game? 

[Razoray]

37 minutes ago, Pete said:

How come the Manc game is still a Saturday 3PM game? 

TV haven’t selected the games after October yet. 

[Jurgen Knows]

[Anubis]

Remember kids, don’t be a Dick.

 

Moby

 

@Mobyhaque1

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15h

 

Dutch manager & pundit Dick Advocaat made this statement at halftime when AZ Alkmaar were up 3-0 up against Bosnian club Zrinjski Mostar: "Its incomprehensible that such teams are allowed to play in European football.”

 

Zrinjski ended up winning 4-3. Magic of European football.

 

[Pete]

22 hours ago, Razoray said:

TV haven’t selected the games after October yet. 

That makes sense. For some reason I thought they’d selected up to Christmas 

[Scott_M]

I didn’t realise Roma, Mourinho and that fat turd Lukaku were in the EL. I’d love to dump them cunts out.

[Scott_M]

According the the UEFA seedings, LASK are the 2nd best team in our group.

 

If we’ve not won the group after Toulouse away, I’ll be disappointed in us.

[TD_LFC]

Expect Adrian to be registered for the UEFA Cup squad.

 

Pitaluga and Jaros both out on loan so presumably Adrian comes in and takes Ben Doaks place.

[Megadrive Man]

5 minutes ago, TD_LFC said:

Expect Adrian to be registered for the UEFA Cup squad.

 

Pitaluga and Jaros both out on loan so presumably Adrian comes in and takes Ben Doaks place.

 

Could take Matips place?

[TD_LFC]

50 minutes ago, Megadrive Man said:

 

Could take Matips place?

 

Or Matips, not sure when either are expected back so it's a flip of a coin.