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I'm certain Rangers supporters will absolutely be okay with winning the next 9 and losing the 10th to Celtic. 

It's necessary to maintain some form and structure. I agree we need to protect Fabinho, but Matip is less fit -- and we need one senior figure in the middle of that defense. Since we already started a few senior players, might as well give them some helps to maintain some rhythm. What's the point of getting minutes in a very disjoint and frustrated outing? 

Taking a 0-3 penalty by not showing up would be a good option, but the fall outs would probably cause too much headache. 

1 hour ago, niallers said:

As much as I like Williams, playing him tonight fair enough but to start him in a massive league game against a battle hardened West ham side is not a smart move in my opinion. He'd be targeted relentlessly and having yarmolenko or Antonio, even though he maybe injured, pulling onto him would be a tough watch.

I'll feel even worse if Antonio abuse Hendo in the air. We might do better playing our best midfield to dominate possession and cut off the supplies. 

The options available all suck. Playing Rhys would be a desperate move, but what good choice do you have. A slight chance he'll play out of his skin to prove doubters wrong. 

3 minutes ago, aws said:

We'd play Phillips. 

Isn't Rhys Williams ahead of him at this particular moment? Phillips had been out injured for a while. Rhys also got minutes against Ajax to defend high balls, I think he'll be used. 

58 minutes ago, dockers_strike said:

Sorry Ronnie, cant agree with you there. I think he has stepped up since Virgil's been missing. I think all this talk about him banging the ball into touch all the time is as lazy as the sideways shit Hendo used to get.

He tried a few over the top balls like Virgil used to do, and he wasn't very good at it. It's a learning process for him. I didn't mind. 
 

I don't see how Minamino can dig himself out of this hole. The whole team had nothing to write home today but Taki struggled more than most, if not the most -- against very meh opposition. I don't see him getting many chances to impress after this showing. Klopp's patience may be infinite, but he had also shown he had no hesitation cutting loose a lost cause. 

 

In my football watching lifetime, only Sami and StevieG are the real choices. Rather hard but I'll go with the Phil Collins' fan. 

Bobby, Hendo, Mo. 

Hendo, Alisson, Bobby

I'm out of superlatives for this Liverpool team. Wolves were a good and tricky opposition, as expected. Traore was a nuisance and caused Robertson endless problems. Salah was too selfish and squandered too many good opportunities by refusing to square the ball -- the sort of stuffs that usually caused rows between teammates and created bad vibes, sinking team-spirit like how it annoyed anxious supporters. But this team kept on going and going, overcoming obstacles both without and within like another walk in the park, deservingly notched another win.

Not the smoothest of performances, but this just might had been my most favorite Liverpool game of this memorable season. What did Klopp call this group of players? Mentality giants? At this point that is no exaggeration.

VVD -- another dominant performance. Also the scorer of the winning goal.
Wijn -- brillian press resistor. 

Hendo - captain performance. 

The most obvious answer was Ricardo Quaresma. 

Alisson, Firmino, VVD. It was hairy, the boys looked dead tired near the end; and since Atkinson bought into Spurs' diving early on, we were scared to touch them. Alisson's solid handling saved our bacon repeatedly. 

Is Virg okay? He took a little long to get up after a tackle.

Jones, Adrian, Neco

Hendo, Salah, Gini

Trent, Hendo, Bobby. 

1 minute ago, El Rojo said:

Has Alisson had to make anything near a save tonight?

Nope. Leicester had like 2 shots, one blocked, the other into the side netting.

Did everyone not complain about Bobby's form just a week or so ago? 

Finally some breathing space. 

Same game plane as when they played us at Anfield. Playing possum for 60 minutes then turned up. They were even more passive this time and we didn't capitalize on the numerous chances we had. Now the game is tense. 

WTF are Leicester playing at? Or had the return of Gini just made us this dominant? Need to materialize these chances though or we may live to regret it. 

On 10/09/2019 at 16:46, Barry Wom said:

Aren't they incentivised to finish as low as possible once they won't make the playoffs? They do better in the draft next year?

Nope. Baseball isn't like American Football or NBA, where highly drafted kids are ready to start and be stars. Baseball draftees still have to go through a long developing process with the farm system before they were deemed ready. Drafting early still mattered, but not as much. The incentive is still to win, given how much they spent. 

Red Sox are in a tough division. A slow start fucked them and that was that. No biggie.

It's 2019, not 2010. Greatness had left Ancelotti at least 3 jobs ago. I'm more surprised Everton would pick him when they need long term thinking than Carlitto cashing out on his past reputation. 

5 minutes ago, moof said:

Of course we will still blame the media, the media has an overwhelming role in ensuring the prevailing orthodoxies can continue operating as they do.
 

“White guilt” lol. Alright buddy, sounds like some solid historical perspective you’ve got going on there

"White guilt" is an Americanism, "imperial guilt"? Whatever you want to call it, the tendency to blame everything wrong in the world currently to something Imperial Britain or France or the US had done in the past.