El Rojo

Hopefully we’ll get some bit of form together in time for Europe. We’re dreadful all over the place (Fabinho and Alisson aside).

Alisson is different level.

Christ, our shooting is obscene.

Unlucky Divock.

Shaqiri deserves his start. Divock surely drinking at last chance saloon now in terms of offering anything at all.

Matip and Phillips in the centre of defence would be a good match-up for this game and allow us to have a go at a fully functioning midfield again. Would actually be a welcome dilemma choosing three from Fabinho, Wijnaldum, Henderson, Thiago and Jones.

Yeah, he’s excellent. And we might be due a free player with our Southampton buy 6, get 1 free loyalty card.

His consistency is phenomenal. Makes every save you'd expect him to and pulls off a few worldies on top of that.

Himself and Firmino were on completely different wavelengths which cost us possession and broke down a few moves in the first half. Reasonable to assume things will improve the more he trains with us. His success here isn't a given, though, as he's a completely different style of midfielder to our hard-pressing regulars (two of them now stuck in defence) who drove us on to a European Cup and a league title. We still really miss Van Dijk's distribution. Maybe Thaigo can take the ball deep for us and spread it around like Virgil used to.

Hadn’t even thought of that. Yikes.

Sit back against us and we probably won’t score. The Burnley game should be a joy to watch.

El Rojo: ‘How am I doing, boss?’ Nostradamus: ‘Whatever, dickhead.’

Good call on the line-up. Shaq didn’t let you down, either. Good shift from him.

Can’t wait for this. The big one.

And the bearded lad in goals.