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Monday Apr 1: Been thinking about what I said last week about not having any better suggestions than the managers that have been linked with us so far, which is basically Amorim and De Zerbi as there hasn’t really been any credible links to anyone else. It’s a sad state of affairs that neither of those feel right at all and I don’t want either, but there isn’t anyone else who ticks all boxes either. So if there’s no-one who ticks every box, no clear outstanding candidate, then shouldn’t we just go with someone who we at least know understands the club? My first choice would be Pep Lijnders, but for whatever reason he isn’t even getting any consideration from the club and he’s definitely leaving. So how about, and hear me out here, we at least speak to Gerrard and sound him out? I know he was shit at Villa and that they’ve gone from strength to strength without him, but you can’t just dismiss what he did at Rangers and he did spend time here with the 18s learning about Klopp’s methods. He played a big part in developing Curtis so at least we know the kids coming through would be in good hands. I know it’s far from ideal, but put it this way, if he’d stayed at Rangers and the Villa debacle had never happened, he’d be by far and away the obvious choice to succeed Jurgen, so in the absence of any clear and obvious better option, should we not at least be giving him an interview? There are obviously reasons against it, but I can give you reasons against De Zerbi, Amorim or whoever else you want to mention too. And none of them are Liverpool legends who get the club, know what it means to play for this club and who have won trophies with the club. If you take away his time at Villa his CV is actually very similar to Alonso, and we all wanted Xabi so is this such a mad shout? It’s no madder than going for Italian Brendan who was single handedly responsible for letting Everton stay up last season. It’s been Stevie’s dream to manage us and what could be better than Gerrard finally getting his Premier League winners medal as our manager? Just imagine! We’re an emotional club, an emotional fanbase and we need to be able to connect with our manager. I’ll take Gerrard over some beardy Portuguese fella none of us had heard of up until a couple of months ago. I was always dead set against him being manager even when he was doing well at Rangers, so I accept that this is a big change of direction for me, but these are desperate times and you also have to figure in what date it is today. Boom! Gotcha. On a serious note though, replacing Klopp the manager is something we might be able to do if we get lucky. It’s not inconceivable that we find a coach who really knows his shit and can maybe get the team playing even better. It’s not likely, but it’s definitely plausible. Replacing the Klopp the man on the other hand is impossible. There’s no-one like him, before or since. Shanks is the only one comparable and he was a one off too. Watching that video today of Klopp with Sean Cox just brings it all home. There’s no-one like him, never mind the football side of it, he’s just such a special human being. The way he is with people, it’s all just so genuine, heartfelt and warm. You can’t fake how he is, he’s just a genuinely great man and we can’t replace that. When people talk about how difficult it will be for someone following on from him, they usually mean because of the on pitch success and the results we’ve had, but that’s really not the hardest thing. Of course it’s a challenge and it won’t be easy, but Paisley followed Shankly and outdid him. It can be done. The real difficulty for whoever comes next is being judged against Klopp the man. Also today, Guardiola was being a bellend again because he didn’t like a question he was asked. The question was a legitimate one too. The reporter asked him why he gave Grealish such a public and animated dressing down on the pitch and could it not have waited until they got back to the dressing room. Passive Aggressive Pep (might actually start calling him “Pap” from now on) did that horrible sarcastic tone he does and was saying something along the lines of “it’s because of my ego, I need everyone to be looking at me and talking about me”. Which is funny because that’s EXACTLY what it is. He also had to respond to Keane’s comments at the weekend about Haaland looking like a League Two player (can’t think why Keane would have a grudge against Haaland….). Obviously he went overboard, as he tends to do, but there is an element of truth to what he said. Haaland is the best in the world at what he does, but he’s pretty shit at everything else. It’s kind of like me in a way. I discovered tonight that I’m actually number one in the world at something. No joke this time, I’m deadly serious. You know how on Call of Duty there are little extra games you can play, like Zombies? Well the machines at the driving range have it too. Zombies appear on the screen and it shows you the distance and direction they are located and you then have to hit a golf ball out onto the range to kill them. I played it last year and was there for about 20 minutes until I ran out of balls and had to stop playing. I had the top score, and not just at the range where I was playing, I’m talking worldwide. Every Foresight Sports fitted driving range throughout the world that has this technology linked up and I had the best score (which was double the next best one by the way) but I didn’t think much of it at the time as I assumed it was just because the game was new and not many people had played it yet. Tonight I decided to play again, and guess what? My name was still at the top and nobody had beaten my score. Until tonight that is, when I beat it. So now I’ve got the two best scores in the entire world on ‘Wave’ and I’m also top on ’Survival’ mode too. I reckon I could beat Rory McIlroy at this game. So I might be League Two at everything else, but like Haaland I’m the fucking top dog at the thing I’m good at.

Another weekend completely skewed by referees and VAR. So many games were unduly influenced by it, with West Ham and Burnley getting especially fucked over. I don’t understand referees at all you know. If I was a ref and I was watching games that I wasn’t in charge of, I’d be making a mental note of who the biggest cheating cunts are and I’d be making sure they don’t get anything from me unless it’s absolutely stonewall. Top of that list, even above Richarlison and Fernandes, would be that Myra Hindley looking twat at Newcastle. I’d never give him anything, because his first thought in any situation is to cheat. He’ll only cross or shoot if the dive isn’t on, and he’s not even very good at it. You can tell immediately what he’s done. Most of us can anyway. That soft cunt ref at the weekend needs his arse kicking, and even more so the bellend on VAR. Gordon does the same thing for both pens. Since when has just sticking your leg in front of a defender as he tries to clear the ball been a foul? I don’t mean when you’re the one in possession and you step in front to shield it, I mean just coming from nowhere, completely ignoring the ball and just planting your foot there as the defender is about to kick the ball. He did it twice and got two penalties. He’s a horrible, cheating little shitbag but if refs are going to reward it then I don’t blame him. He’s won that game for his team with his cheating, so as long as the refs are too stupid to realise then he’ll keep doing it. Maybe they’re after side gigs in Saudi, or maybe they’re just incompetent. Either way, Moyes had a right to be furious after this but he was fairly restrained under the circumstances. Isak converted the first penalty to put Newcastle ahead but the Hammers came roaring back. Antonio equalised when he ran onto a pass by Paqueta and finished well. Kudus made it 2-1 with a goal that had Newcastle’s players protesting. Nothing wrong with that, Kudus was fouled by Schar who was rolling around on the floor feigning a facial injury. Ward-Prowse took a free-kick and Kudus ended up scoring. The ref did the right thing in letting that free-kick be taken, as why should Newcastle benefit from committing a foul? Bowen made it 3-1 with a composed finish after being picked out by the lively Kudus. Cracking counter attack goal that, but Newcastle’s defenders were nowhere to be seen. Kudus isn’t consistent but when he’s on it he’s fucking boss. With him, Bowen, Paqueta and Ward-Prowse the Hammers have got some real talent. They need a centre forward though badly. Antonio is not the answer, unless the question is “which striker has a handful of great games a season, spends the rest of the time being injured or shit and mocks other fellow professionals on a podcast with fellow crock Calum Wilson?” Longstaff made a mess of a good opportunity and the crowd turned on Newcastle. Then VAR got them back into it. The ref didn’t give the penalty but VAR sent him to the screen and then he did. Here’s the huge problem I have with this. All season we’ve been told that VAR doesn’t get involved with penalty decisions unless it’s a howler. Yet somehow this foul by Gordon on Phillips was seen as a penalty the other way. It’s a fucking disgrace really. Isak buried the pen again and then sub Harvey Barnes bagged a brace to win it for Newcastle. Moyes is getting pelters from the Hammers fans because he subbed Antonio for Phillips and that’s when it all started to go wrong, but the penalty changed everything really. Gordon was sent off for two yellows. Should have been at least four considering the two penalties he cheated to win, the horrible cunt. He’s destined to end up at United him. Mark my words. He’ll be there in a year or two, going the full Rooney See No Evil Hear No Evil as their fans are chanting about scouse this and scouse that.

I was really looking forward to this game. Not because I was expecting a goalfest (would have been nice of course), just that I thought it would be one of the few games we have left that should be fairly stress free and comfortable. Maybe even the only one. If you look at the 3-1 scoreline and you don’t know the time of the goals, it probably looks quite comfortable. It was anything but though. We went through the ringer again. There’s no harm done, we won the game and went back to the top of the table, so it feels a bit entitled of me to be unhappy about this. Unhappy is too strong a word anyway, I’m definitely not unhappy, but I am somewhat irked. Irritated even. It’s not that I was demanding we score loads of goals, I just didn’t want to go through the mill again, you know? Can’t we just have an easy, stress free win for once during a run in? If you can’t have it against the worst team in the league then I guess not. This is how the next eight games are going to be isn’t it? This was supposed to be the easy one. My problem with this game is the first half. We just didn’t do anywhere near enough, despite having virtually all of the ball. How many saves did their keeper make? I can think of one, but maybe there were others. We broke the record for possession apparently, but barely threatened. I just think it was too easy, especially after we went 1-0 up. When it’s like that we often see a lack of urgency. An attitude of “it’s fine, it’ll come eventually”. That’s not how it works though, you have to make it happen. The urgency we saw after they scored, where was that before? If we’d shown that in the first half we could have gone in 3-0 up and put our feet up in the second half, made a load of subs and kept everyone fresh for the weekend. Instead we had to go to the well again to win it late.

The Reds returned to the top of the table after a 3-1 win over bottom club Sheffield United, but it was considerably more stressful than it needed to be and it needed a late thunderbolt from Alexis Mac Allister to break the deadlock before Cody Gakpo wrapped it up in stoppage time. TLW Editor Dave Usher is joined by Julian Richards and Paul Natton to reflect on the night's action as well as to discuss the ongoing manager search and preview the huge game at Old Trafford this Sunday.

Liverpool and Crystal Palace will clash for the second time in the Premier League this season. The first installment between the two sides was entertaining with the contest ending in a 2-1 win for the Reds. Jurgen Klopp’s enterprising side have rediscovered their mojo this season and have been breezing past opposition with ease. As of the time of writing, Liverpool currently sit on top of the Premier League with 67 points after 29 games, while Crystal Palace have garnered 30 points from 29 games. After an underwhelming season last campaign, Liverpool, during the summer, started their squad rebuild and a few exits happened, primarily to the Saudi Pro League. Former captain Jordan Henderson joined Al-Ettifaq alongside club legend Steven Gerrard, while Roberto Firmino and Fabinho headed to Al-Ahli Saudi and Al-Ittihad, respectively. In terms of recruitment, Klopp decided to strengthen the squad with the signing of Hungarian captain Dominik Szoboszlai from RB Leipzig, World Cup winner Alexis Mac Allister from Brighton and Hove Albion, Ryan Gravenberch from Bayern Munich, and Wataru Endo joining the ranks from Stuttgart. The Reds began their title challenge with a 1-1 draw with Chelsea in their season opener, which that was followed by five consecutive wins against Bournemouth, Newcastle, Aston Villa, Wolves, and West Ham. The first league defeat of the season came controversially at Tottenham before another draw with Brighton. However, Klopp’s side bounced back with victories against Everton, Nottingham Forest, Luton Town, Brentford, Fulham, and Sheffield, and a hard-fought win over Crystal Palace that saw Salah score his 200th goal for the club. To kick things off in 2024, the Reds have already beaten Bournemouth 4-0 on the road in the Premier League and won the Carabao Cup final with an extra time winner by Virgil Van Dijk sinking Chelsea at Wembley. The Reds also thumped Chelsea 4-1 in the league before losing 3-1 to Arsenal to see their lead at the top reduced. With Jurgen Klopp set to leave at the end of the season, the side will be keen to finish the season on a strong note. On the other hand, Crystal Palace, who have been quite stable in the Premier League in recent seasons, have not had it all easy this campaign, and that led to the dismissal of Roy Hodgson in February. Austrian Oliver Gasner, who won the Europa League with Frankfurt, was appointed in the veteran’s place and it is remains to be seen whether he can lead them to Premier League safety. Before the season got underway, Crystal Palace signed Matheus França from Brazilian club side Flamengo, English goalkeeper Dean Henderson from Manchester United, Rob Holding from Arsenal, and Jefferson Lerma from Bournemouth on a free transfer. In return, the Eagles had to release the likes of Luka Milivojevic, Jack Butland, Wilfred Zaha, and Vicente Guaita who left for Shabab Al-Ahli, Rangers, Galatasaray, and Celta de Vigo respectively on free transfers. Crystal Palace have found it difficult to grind out results this season, managing just seven wins all season so far. Their recent form has been quite poor, with a terrible run starting on matchday 12 when Palace welcomed Everton to Selhurst Park in a five-goal thriller that saw the Eagles narrowly lose 3-2 before then losing to Luton Town. A 1-1 draw against West Ham United seemed to be some sort of silver lining for the Eagles but further back-to-back home defeats buried any hope of a resurgence. Things haven't been great for the Eagles but they do have the squad to comfortably beat the drop, hence the decision to draft Galsner in. Liverpool are on a different level at Anfield, so it will be difficult for Crystal Palace to walk away with anything from this match. Match tickets The epic match at Anfield in Liverpool kicks off on Saturday 13th April 2024, at 3 PM UK time. The magnificent 61,276-capacity stadium with its electrifying atmosphere will host the Premier League title challengers and another side chasing Premier League safety. Getting tickets for the Liverpool vs Crystal Palace tickets could take a lot of work given the standard of this game. Hence, you are advised to search ticket reselling sites should they be expectedly sold out on each club’s channels. Team news Lineups Liverpool have had several injuries this season and the line up has chopped and changed a lot as a result. Spanish midfielder Stefan Bajcetic has missed most of the season but is nearing a comeback, as are Trent Alexander-Arnold and Diogo Jota. At the back, Ibou Konate is now fit again while Andy Robertson will be hoping to have shaken off the ankle injury he piked up on international duty with Scotland. Joel Matip is out for the season due to an anterior cruciate ligament rupture. Liverpool: Alison Becker, Trent Alexander-Arnold, Ibrahim Konate, Virgil Van Dijk, Joe Gomez; Wataru Endo, Alexis Mac Allister, Dominik Szoboszlai; Mohamed Salah, Darwin Nunez, Luis Diaz. Palace, who have generally been poor this whole campaign, will hope to stay up and come back to fight for some valuable positions next season. As of the time of writing, several key players like Eberechi Eze, Michael Olise, and Rob Holding have been dealing with various injuries. Meanwhile, Cheick Doucoure is ruled out for the remainder of the season with an Achilles injury. However, they have the likes of Edouard and Ayew to call upon for this trip to Anfield. Crystal Palace: Johnstone, Ward, Anderson, Guehi, Clyne, Hughes, Richards, Lerma, Ayew, Edouard, Eze. Prediction Liverpool have made Anfield a slaughter ground all season and it will be difficult to look beyond another resounding victory for Klopp’s men in front of the home support. Against Palace here, the Reds have won four of their past five meetings and are in a strong position to claim another win. Liverpool 3-0 Crystal Palace

There are some games where beforehand I’d happily snatch your hand off for a one goal margin of victory. Not many, as usually I’d roll the dice on us getting more than that, but sometimes I think in the build up to a game that I’ll happily take any kind of win. This was one of those games. Klopp had not beaten De Zerbi in the previous four attempts. I’m not sure exactly why, but Brighton have always given Klopp trouble and especially so since De Zerbi arrived there. Maybe Klopp could have given Dyche a call and asked him for the secret to beating the little gel headed Italian. So going into this, with the stakes as high as they are, any win was fine by me. I didn’t think for a second it was going to be easy and I was expecting 3-1 or 3-2 with a lot of nervy moments and for the game to be in the balance until late on. I was close enough. It wasn’t comfortable at any point. Of course we conceded more or less straight away. What was it, 80 seconds or something? Feels like this happens every other week. I know it doesn’t, but it feels like it. It’s tiresome isn’t it? Having to come from a goal down all the time, it’s great when you do can do it but fucking hell, it’s not good for the blood pressure. It was avoidable from our perspective but it’s a brilliant finish by Danny Welcrap. It starts with an inaccurate pass by Mo. As soon as he shaped to play that pass I thought it was a bad idea, but I’ve seen the replay now and I’ve changed my mind. I thought it was a bad decision at the time but it’s not. Sure, it’s not the safest pass he could have made and there was risk to it, but it wasn't reckless and it defo shouldn’t be leading to a goal. Bradley was miles up the field and I think he may have even been the intended recipient of Mo’s pass. So Brighton broke up that side with Odingra and although we got enough players back to deal with it, we got pretty unlucky as Dom got a foot in to take it away from Welbeck, but Virgil then had to stretch to cut it out and the loose ball fell nicely to Welbeck who leathered it home. I don’t think we could do a great deal to stop it other than to not give the ball away in the first place. It’s just one of those things really, but it’s annoying as fuck to keep falling behind in games.

The Reds returned to thePremier League summit after goals from Diaz and Salah erased an early setback to see off a tricky Brighton side. Chris Smith is joined by TLW Editor Dave Usher and Paul Natton to discuss a potentially pivotal day in the title race, with a draw in the City and Arsenal game putting us in pole position for the only fitting end to the Klopp era. We'll discuss the many permutations of the run-in and (mostly) keep the disappointment about Xabi Alonso's decision to stay with Leverkusen in check.

Monday Mar 25: It was the legends game at the weekend. They’re not for me, I’m not a fan of them personally but they seem to make a lot of people happy so that’s sound, each to their own. There was a full house for the game and loads of money was raised for charity, while fans got to see some old favourites and some former players got to play at Anfield again. So it’s all good, it’s just something I want to watch. I did put it on for the last few minutes though just to see Sven at the end, and I was pretty choked up. The older I get the more sentimental and emotional I’m becoming and I could easily have cried watching Sven out there at the end. I didn’t, but only because I made an effort not to. He fucking loved it didn’t he? Such a nice experience for him to have and well done to the club for sorting that. It’s also easy to get all sniffy about some of the ‘legends’ and yeah, fair enough, Nabil El Zhar is kind of scraping the bottom of the barrel, but it’s necessary. You’re never going to get 15 or 16 of our greatest ever players, that’s not how it works. So if Gregory Vignal, Mark Gonzalez and Bjorn Kvarme get a game, who’s arsed really? They played for us, they tried their best and if they’d have been good enough they’d probably have wanted to stay here for the majority of their career, so in that regard this is nice for them to come back I think. I’d rather watch them than that fucking Torres rat anyway…. You may recall that I mentioned last week how we beat City in the u21 league. Turns out they showed up at our training ground for that game in the first team bus, which is emblazoned with all of the trophies they cheated their way to last season. I’d like to know if they use that bus to travel to all of their games or if that’s just the latest example of how obsessed they are with us. Soft cunts. Staying with them and their cheating, the M.E.N ran a story over the weekend that’s a little disturbing, as clearly it was fed to that Simon Mullock stooge by City. It was along the lines of how Etihad Airlines are floating on the stock exchange or something, which means they need to make their accounts public. Why is this relevant? Well remember those Der Spiegel leaks when City’s emails were hacked? Some of the most incriminating stuff was how their sponsors were not actually paying the bulk of the money. It was being paid by the Sheik. I don’t remember the exact figures, but the emails showed that Etihad were sponsoring City for massive money, but were only having to pay £8m and the rest of it would be covered by Mansour. We know this is true because why the fuck would City be sending emails saying that kind of thing and potentially incriminating themselves if it wasn’t true? So it’s a bit of a co-incidence that NOW, after all these years, Etihad are suddenly making this move which will oh so conveniently make their accounts public just in time for City’s hearing with the PL. Those accounts are going to be doctored as fuck, we all know it. If Etihad cook their books, who are they answering too? The state. Who runs the state? The same people who run Man City. This being leaked to the M.E.N. and the smug tone of the piece makes me think this is just the start of the shit they’re going to pull to cheat their way out of these charges. How can the PL prove any of this if all the companies who sponsor City can just show false accounts because the Abu Dhabi tax office is not going to give a fuck? They’re going to beat these charges because how can you take on a nation state? The only way to stop City is for the other clubs to forfeit games against them. They should have done it years ago, but if they blag their way out of these charges then it needs to happen. Meanwhile, Richard Keys says Alonso to Liverpool is agreed and that if he was a Liverpool fan he’d be excited. That’s me convinced anyway. Seriously, obviously he knows nothing because whatever talks are taking place will be kept completely under wraps. Liverpool in particular are pretty fucking great these days at playing their cards close to their chest, and Xabi and his agent aren’t going to be running their mouths to people who Keys know either. So Keys knows nothing, which puts him in good company alongside that Pletigoal fraud from Sky Germany.

It will be a spectacle when Manchester United welcome Liverpool to Old Trafford in the Premier League. It is a clash between two teams from different cities in the United Kingdom but in the same region. While the Red Devils have blown hot and cold this season, the Reds are firmly in the title race with Manchester City and Arsenal. The Red Devils have had a roller-coaster campaign under Erik Ten Hag this term, and at some points it has been comical. Harry Maguire, who was one of the worst players at the club last season has now become one of the best players. Meanwhile, Marcus Rashford, who was the main man in attack last season, has seen his form drop so much that youngster Alejandro Garnacho is now seen as United's main threat. However, Rashford has shown flashes of form of late and is now combining well with summer signing Rasmus Hojlund. Manchester United's disappointing campaign started with their transfer decisions. Following the departures of Anthony Elanga, Dean Henderson, Alex Telles, Eric Bailly, and Mason Greenwood, United welcomed Rasmus Hojlund, Mason Mount, Andre Onana, Sofyan Amrabat, Johnny Evans, and Sergio Reguillon to the club over the summer. Those mostly poor transfer decisions have haunted them this season, and that has seen them lose embarrassingly to teams like Tottenham, Arsenal, Newcastle United, Manchester City, and Brighton. The smaller teams have also had their bite of the cherry, with Crystal Palace, and Bournemouth humbling them at Old Trafford. Onana has been a shadow of the goalkeeper he was at Inter Milan, making some mistakes which have cost the club. The poor recruitment has left the side in a bad place but they are not totally out of sight as they could finish strong and book a spot in Europe next season. On the flip side, a couple of positives for the Red Devils include beating Chelsea 2-1 and thrashing Everton 3-0 at Goodison Park before a goalless draw at Anfield with Liverpool. Apart from that, they got knocked out of Europe completely before losing to Forest and West Ham on the road. United sit just outside the top 5 and a run of fine results could propel them to greater heights before the season comes to an end. Meanwhile, Liverpool are enjoying a fine season, currently sitting second in the Premier League on goal difference with 64 points as of the time of writing. During the summer, the team experienced notable departures, primarily to the Saudi Pro League. Former captain Jordan Henderson joined Al-Ettifaq alongside club legend Steven Gerrard, while Roberto Firmino and Fabinho headed to Al-Ahli Saudi and Al-Ittihad, respectively. Other exits included Naby Keita to Werder Bremen after the expiration of his contract, Alex-Oxlade Chamberlain headed off to Besiktas, James Milner to Brighton and Hove Albion, Fabio Carvalho on loan to RB Leipzig, and Arthur Melo, who left at the end of a challenging loan spell. Marquee signings strengthened the squad, with Hungarian captain Dominik Szoboszlai arriving from RB Leipzig, World Cup winner Alexis Mac Allister from Brighton and Hove Albion, Ryan Gravenberch from Bayern Munich, and Wataru Endo joining the ranks from Stuttgart. The Reds started their Premier League campaign with an entertaining 1-1 draw against Chelsea, followed by five consecutive wins against Bournemouth, Newcastle, Aston Villa, Wolves, and West Ham. Notably, Liverpool beat Newcastle with Darwin Nunez pulling up heroics after captain Virgil Van Dijk was sent off early in the game. The team faced their first defeat in a dramatic loss to Tottenham Hotspur, ending with nine men due to red cards for Curtis Jones and Diogo Jota. Subsequent matches included a 2-2 draw with Brighton and Hove Albion, victories against Everton, Nottingham Forest, Luton Town, Brentford, Fulham, and Sheffield, and a hard-fought win over Crystal Palace that saw Salah score his 200th goal for the club. The defeat at Arsenal allowed the Gunners to close the gap on them at the top and Manchester City have also got back to their feet. It is a three-horse race now and the season is nearing its end. More importantly, Liverpool are currently high on confidence and they could go all out for the win in this particular fixture. Match tickets The epic match at Old Trafford in Manchester kicks off on Saturday 6th April 2024, at 3 PM UK time. United’s 74,031-capacity stadium will be playing host to this fixture between two foremost Premier League teams. Getting tickets for the Manchester United v Liverpool tickets could take a lot of work given the standard of this game. Hence, you are advised to search ticket reselling sites should they be expectedly sold out on each club’s channels. Team news Line-ups Goalkeeper Andre Onana returned from AFCON duties with Cameroon a new man and has been doing much better with United since then. United have struggled with injuries this season, although Tyrell Malacia, Luke Shaw, Mason Mount and Victor Lindelof could make their return before this game. Meanwhile, Anthony Martial, who just underwent surgery, could be available for this fixture. Manchester United XI: Andre Onana; Aaron Wan-Bissaka, Harry Maguire, Johnny Evans, Diogo Dalot; Bruno Fernandes, Kobbie Mainoo, Christian Eriksen; Alejandro Garnacho, Rasmus Hojlund, Marcus Rashford. For Liverpool, Joel Matip is out for the season due to an anterior cruciate ligament rupture but other injured stars might be back for this one. Trent Alexander-Arnold has an outside chance of making it, while Diogo Jota and Curtis Jones should be available following lengthy layoffs. The game will probably come too soon for Alisson Becker though. Liverpool: Caoimhin Kelleher; Joe Gomez, Ibrahim Konate, Virgil Van Dijk, Andy Robertson; Alexis Mac Allister, Wataru Endo, Dominik Szoboszlai; Mohammed Salah, Darwin Nunez, Luis Diaz. Prediction Manchester United recently overcame Liverpool in a dramatic FA Cup tie that was settled with the last kick of extra time, so they will go into the game with renewed confidence. However, Liverpool, even with numerous injuries, have shown the capacity and determination to compete for the title in Jurgen Klopp’s final season with the side. This encounter might just end in a stalemate, but Liverpool desperately need the three points and will need to find a way to finally beat United having twice failed to do so this season. Manchester United 2-3 Liverpool

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Monday Mar 18: Trying to avoid the fallout from yesterday as I’m still angry and gutted about it. As I said in the match report, I’ve made peace with being out of the cup, as winning everything was always going to be a tall order and this was bottom of the wish list for most of us. It’s getting beat by them that stings, and specifically the manner of it. It’s not so much about us losing that way, it’s about them winning that way and the joy it brought them. Their joy bothers me far more than our disappointment. I fucking hate the idea that they went home happy, those tragedy chanting cunts didn’t deserve a happy ending but we gave it to them anyway. That’s probably the best moment they’ve had since Ferguson left you know. I just hope they think it’s some kind of turning point, because it absolutely isn’t, they’re still shit. As for us, we better fucking learn from this and put it right in three weeks, because honestly I’ll struggle to forgive these players if they fuck up Klopp’s farewell by failing to beat these losers three times. I know that sounds melodramatic, but that’s how I feel. Failing to beat them in a few weeks, combined with the other two results, would effectively cost us two trophies and ruin Klopp’s happy ending, because quite frankly, fuck the Europa League. If we win the league then the Europa will be the cherry on the top of that, but without the league then sorry, winning the Europa is going to mean fuck all in the grand scheme of things. So yeah, in three weeks they better fucking go there and win as it will take a lot of forgiving if they don’t. A little bit of good news today as Egypt haven’t called up Mo and good ol’ Bielsa has given Darwin time off too. He’s a good egg him. Would have been nice if we’d been able to get a few more players out of it too (Diaz, Macca, Endo and Robbo especially), but Darwin and Mo getting some time off and then spending the week training here with us is helpful, so I’ll take that small win. Elsewhere today, Forest have been docked four points. We knew it was coming, the only question was whether it would be more than that. Four isn’t bad, they should be quite pleased with that I think. Everton will get at least that I assume, so basically the four points they got back will be taken off them again. Some rumours that Chelsea will get an even bigger one than Everton’s initial 10 point one. What’s the point though? Doesn’t matter, they’re not in contention for Europe and won’t go down, so essentially there’s no punishment for them cheating really is there? You could take 20 points off them and they’d be fine. Even if it’s next season (which actually, when I think about it, it will be) I don’t see much changing. Not gonna be top four, not gonna be bottom four. Somewhere in the middle so the deduction won’t mean anything. Still funny though I suppose. The U21s beat City, which initially had me thinking was quite an impressive result. We tend to struggle against them at the Academy levels so this felt like a feather in the cap, only it turns out that City are second bottom of a 26 team table and are proper shit at u21 level. They’ve only won two of 17 games this season. I’m not actually sure how that’s possible as they’re always really good at u18 level and have loads of kids in their first team squad. How can their u21 stink? I’ve just had a look and they are second in the u18 league this season (we’re third, miles behind them) so what happens to their players between the ages of 18 and 21? They sell them to Burnley for vastly inflated fees, probably. Anyway, Kone-Doherty and Rhys Williams got the goals in a 2-0 win. Isaak Mabaya made his return from injury too. He’s been out for ages, to the point where I’d forgotten about him completely. Shame, as he’d have almost certainly had a chance in the first team by now. You know who else I’d forgotten about? Oakley Cannonier. Where the fuck has he been all season? He’s fallen behind Koumas and Danns now through no fault of his own. Injuries really can make or break a career for young lads. Get one at the wrong time and it can fuck everything up. I fear for Kaide Gordon now, he’s fallen behind and it’s a long road back, and even Ben Doak as he’s missed so much football this season where he could have really established himself. Now he’ll have to prove himself all over again to a new manager, who might not play a system that suits or who might not be big on promoting youth when he’s trying to prove himself at a new club. You get an injury at the wrong time as a kid, it can absolutely change the course of your career drastically.

Short one this week as there were only four games and none of the big boys were playing. Unless you count Spurs in that, which nobody does. Some weird goings on at Burnley v Brentford. The home side took the lead early on from the spot after Reguilon had fouled Vitinho. The ref didn’t give it initially, even though it was blatant. No idea who the ref was as I’ve never seen him before. Maybe that’s why Paul Tierney was happy to send him to the screen to show him the error of his ways. So he then gives the pen, but also sends Reguilon off. What am I missing here, how is that a red card? I thought they scrapped the whole ‘double jeopardy’ thing? Does it only count on keepers? If so, that’s fucking stupid. That punishment does not fit the crime. It’s a clumsy foul but not deliberate and since when are red cards being given for standard penalty calls? Gross wasn't sent off for fouling Szoboszlai in the box and that was worse than this. And why is it different for keepers compared to defenders? Ederson wiped out Nunez last week and got a yellow. Now that was fair because I don’t think Darwin is reaching that ball and getting a shot away, but the point is that even if it was an area where he would have had an empty net it is no longer a red card. Actually, the Jota one against Newcastle is a better example. A penalty is given against the keeper and Jota had an open goal, but that’s not a red card. So why the fuck is Reguilon getting sent off when the Burnley lad still has to beat the keeper? As I say, am I missing something here, because this seems wrong. So the decision was apparently right, but the rule is shit. Anyway, Bruun Larsen buried the pen and Brentford were now having to play almost an entire game with only ten men. No wonder Burnley were able to finally win a game. Mind you, bombing James Trafford to the bench helped too. He’s been dropping clangers all season and Kompany finally ditched him in mid-March. Still, at least he was able to help City maintain some sort of pretence about trying to comply with FFP. Bulb headed cunt. Some moustachio'd cat named Muric took his place and was almost embarrassed by O’Shea who played a blind backpass that the keeper needed to scramble across and clear off the line. Burnley have been doing this kind of shit all season. Absolute clown show back there, trying to play like Man City with Championship level players. They do play some decent stuff though and Fofana should have scored after a nice move, but he somehow put it miles wide from three yards out with an open goal. Look at the goal he scored last week and then look at this. Some serious Darwin vibes about it. He did find the net in the second half with a nice finish, seconds after Vitinho had made a goal saving tackle to deny Lewis Potter on the break. That kind of thing is a proper back breaker, Brentford thought they were about to get back level and then just like that it’s 2-0. Brentford pulled one back through Ajer as a VAR check was taking place for two penalty appeals Brentford had. Tough game for the officials this because every time there was a corner the penalty area resembled a Royal Rumble. Usually that’s because of Brentford, who are one of the worst in the league for holding on set-pieces. This was mostly Burnley though, who got away with fucking murder. I don’t blame them though, unless you’re playing Man City then the refs are not calling these no matter how blatant they are so why wouldn’t you do it? May as well if they aren’t going to call them. Brentford had an equaliser ruled out right at the death when Toney was adjudged to have fouled the keeper. Yeah, he did foul him, correct decision even though I’d have died laughing if that one had counted against Kompany. Never mind, he’ll be back in the Championship soon enough and we can forget he exists again. Brentford are quite close to that relegation battle too and they’re on a terrible run, but I just don’t see them being in any trouble, especially now my boy Mbuemo is back alongside my boy Toney and my other boy Maupay.

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It is a David versus Goliath clash when Bottom-placed Sheffield United travel to Premier League table-topping Liverpool. Here is a preview. Liverpool are in action against lowly Sheffield United as the league season enters its critical stage, points are essential which will not be lost on both clubs given their standings. The Reds beat Sheffield United 2-0 in Chris Wilder's first game back in charge of the Blades in December thanks to Virgil van Dijk's goal and Dominik Szoboszlai’s late strike. Jurgen Klopp’s side have been magnificent this season despite an opening draw against Chelsea that did little to hint at what was to come. Liverpool won all of their next five league games and the eventual defeat to Tottenham Hotspur was a vindication of their resilience as poor officiating cost them points despite having two players sent off. While they beat Everton, Nottingham Forest, and Brentford, draws against Brighton, Luton Town, and Manchester City highlighted the teething issues they had while bedding in a new midfield. December nevertheless started with consecutive wins against Fulham, Sheffield United, and Crystal Palace but they drew key head-to-head clashes against Manchester United and Arsenal. Liverpool then beat Burnley 2-0 on Boxing Day before getting the better of Newcastle in a New Year’s Day epic. After getting past Arsenal and Fulham in the cups, the Reds also beat Bournemouth 4-0 thanks to two goals each from Darwin Nunez and Diogo Jota. Klopp then announced his decision to step down as Liverpool manager at the end of the campaign to put an end to an eight-and-a-half-year managerial reign. It hence promises to be an emotional finale as the Kop look to send the club legend off on a high. 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Everton pegged them back for their first point of the season but they failed to build on it with six consecutive defeats thereafter. Sheffield finally grabbed their first win at the 11th attempt with Cameron Archer and Oliver Norwood netting late on against Wolves. They also forced a draw against 10-man Brighton but lost the next two against Bournemouth and relegation rivals Burnley. The 5-0 defeat to the Clarets was particularly damaging as after one win and two draws in their first 14 games, the club decided to sack Paul Heckingbottom and replace him with his predecessor, Chris Wilder. Wilder’s return match was a tough fixture against Liverpool which they lost 2-nil but James McAtee’s goal was enough to beat Brentford thereafter. A trip to Chelsea unsurprisingly ended in favour of the Blues and they were very close to ending Aston Villa’s long unbeaten run at home until Nicolo Zaniolo’s last-gasp equaliser. Sheffield continued to suffer ill luck with a showdown against Luton Town, after doing well to come from behind, they scored two own goals to earn the Hatters a 3-2 win at Bramall Lane. The year 2023 then ended with a trip to Manchester City where they left with a 2-0 defeat against the Premier League champions. Their FA Cup campaign got off to the perfect start with a 4-0 win at Gillingham but their survival quest in the league resumed with a 2-2 draw against West Ham. After losing 5-2 to Brighton in the FA Cup, Sheffield lost to Crystal Palace by the odd goal then got thumped 5-0 at home to Aston Villa. The Blades find themselves in a position where they have nothing to lose and they must carry that fearlessness into big matches such as the one against Liverpool. It is imperative that they keep the belief and give their fans something to cheer about for the rest of the campaign. Match tickets This Premier League game takes place on Wednesday, April 3 2024 with kick-off scheduled for 7 PM UK time. Match tickets are available for sale on each club’s website but you can expect them to be quickly sold out. Given this is officially Jurgen Klopp’s farewell tour, no Reds fan will be willing to miss any single game and the atmosphere at Anfield will only go up a notch with the hope of winning the league. This is why match tickets are set to be scarce through official sources and travelling supporters who do not have a season ticket may find it difficult to get a ticket for this game. Those looking for Liverpool vs Sheffield United tickets are advised to extend their search to a ticket resale site. Team news Liverpool continues to be plagued by injury woes. Alisson, Alexander-Arnold, Ibrahima Konate, Thiago, Curtis Jones, Stefan Bajčetić, Joël Matip, Diogo Jota and Ben Doak are the other names currently in the treatment room. Sheffield has the likes of Chris Basham, John Egan, George Baldock, Oliver McBurnie, Max Lowe, and Daniel Jebbison all unavailable. Line-ups Klopp has been able to do without key players at various points of this season but he will hope to be close to full-strength for the season’s run-in. Jota would be a welcome return to the side following his knee injury sustained against Brentford. Liverpool: Kelleher; Bradley, Konate, Van Dijk, Robertson; Endo, Mac Allister, Szoboszlai; Salah, Nunez, Diaz: Wilder would be keen to get a solid performance out of his team and he can only achieve that with his best 11 available. Oli McBurnie could be a key presence up front, but the entire team has to contribute to any positive outcome. Sheffield Utd: Foderingham; Bogle, Holgate, Ahmedhodzic, Trusty, Norrington-Davies; McAtee, Souza, Brooks, Diaz; McBurnie Prediction Liverpool should win this comfortably but they must be focused on the task as Sheffield will be well-motivated to cause an upset. The Reds must be clinical which shouldn’t be a problem given the depth of their attacking talents while they aim to stay ahead of their title rivals. A comprehensive Liverpool victory awaits Liverpool 3-0 Sheffield United

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