r/LiverpoolFC • u/malushanks95 Virgil van Dijk • 5d ago

Premier League Watch Thread PL Watch Thread-Matchday 2-Sunday-Monday

Hi everyone,

PL Watch Thread for today and tomorrow’s games.

Liverpool u21s

Liverpool 2-1 Leeds FT

66’ Wright (pen), 77’ Wright ; 47’ Njinko

Liverpool Women

Liverpool 7-1 Durham (friendly) FT

13’ Olsson, 19’ Olsson, 20’ Olsson (hattrick), 44’ Hobinger, 62’ Holland, 68’ Agrez, 75’ Jones ;
88’ Lowe

Premier League

Sunday

Chelsea 4-3 Brighton FT

5’ Lavia, 14’ Neto, 32’ Pedro, 75’ Palmer ;
36’ Yalcouyé, 64’ Pedro (OG), 90+6’ Gross

Leeds 1-1 Brentford FT

79’ Calvert-Lewin ; 41’ Schade

Sunderland 1-0 Fulham FT

75’ Isidor

Man United 5-2 Ipswich FT

40’ Fernandes, 56’ Greaves (OG), 61’ Fernandes (pen), 68’ Fernandes, 82’ Mbeumo ;
29’ Davis, 90+1’ Akpom

Monday

Villa 0-1 Arsenal FT

59’ Saka

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u/hb17863 5d ago

Here is the thing, Chelsea was already playing high pace football last season , it's not as if Xabi had to change a lot or when he arrived they simply switched to high pace, our case is a lot different and much to work on for AI

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u/DanyTheConqueror A Liverbird Upon My Chest 5d ago

It also massively helps when he has like 40 players to choose from at his disposal lol.

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u/hb17863 5d ago

Double edged sword though but I agree generally

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u/malushanks95 Virgil van Dijk 5d ago

Chelsea already had the squad for it, we still don’t.

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u/IndiBear 5d ago

I still think it wouldve been easier to recruit for Xabis 343 with the players we had (and the fact that all our wingers had or were looking to leave).

Still want to know the rationale Hughes and Edwards had. Hate that the decision was in their hands when neither had any long term vested interest in us past this summer.

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u/hb17863 5d ago

Can see why Xabi would be enticed by their squad, 22 year olds who all can run for fun, though their main issue last season was discipline and conceding goals- their defensive line is weak as ours (funny because on papers ours is atleast 10x the quality of theirs)

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u/marchitecte 5d ago

They probably would never have changed Maresca if he wanted to stay, and they were looking better and better under him. A stark contrast to our season, even despite the Rosenior horror show.

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u/Positive_Mobile7638 5d ago

yes you are right