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Hope I don't jinx it lol.

As we are going for the big one,why not discuss about it here.

Next up in EPL we've got Bournemouth Away and Everton Away.
Few cups games prior to bitters match.

Last Derby at Goodison, they'll be pumped.

It’s all about peaking at the right time and I still don’t think we peaked. City always started slowly then got into a groove by Feb/Mar, by April they were flying and lesser teams were gifting them matches. I think we keep going as we are and that could be our reality, lose a couple and the press will be after our blood.

I like the calmness of the team and is what gives me hope. We win and we don’t over celebrate, Arsenal on the other hand win and they look like they just won the World Cup. Emotionally I think we look better equipped than Arsenal but a key injury and everything changes. Also Trent seems back to being “undistracted”, we need all our best players at 100% if want to win the thing.

I do think we have the toughest run in, hopefully we have a nice enough cushion that we can coast by then.

A lot of football to be played, but I honestly think we’ll do it if we can win our game in hand against the bitters.

City are too far behind and arsenal would need to win every remaining game (which they won’t do).

We could always bottle it, but I think it would take something spectacular to lose a 9 point leads.

Beat Everton and we will have one hand on the title.

I think the biggest game for us this weekend is the one we're not involved in Arsenal vs City.
The game earlier on in the season was a absolute war for both teams and had a nasty edge to it aswell. Both will be going for blood!!
Arsenal have been mocking Haaland all season for his "Stay Humble eh" quote, so he'll be fully motivated to do well against them.

If we get the job done vs Bournemouth on Saturday, then we can all relax and watch them two kick the S##t out of each other on Sunday.

kazza » Sun Jan 26, 2025 8:27 pm wrote:I like the calmness of the team and is what gives me hope. We win and we don’t over celebrate, Arsenal on the other hand win and they look like they just won the World Cup.

Man, it was so infuriating watching them do that but after a while I started feeling second hand embarrassment for them, riling up the crowd on every throw in they get, celebrating every win like they're lifting the title lol, it's really hard to watch without cringing.

Anyway, the key thing for me in this title run is fatigue. This time last season we were flying high but around the end of March or begining of April we fell apart, all the energy was gone. Slot MUST start rotating more often. We've seen how bad fatigue can be for us so having the same players start every game even ones there's no need to is a very dangerous thing to do. Other than that I think we have a bit more quality than Arsenal (who depend too much on Stoke tactics) to win it while City is probably too far down at this point.

That is also what I'm worried about, fatigue. I'm hoping he don't play strongest xi against PSV.

We going to have a lot of game to play especially if we progress in the competitions.

I share the fatigue concern however... I can't find the supporting stats but apparently the big difference between Klopp's ganganpresse and Slot's football is minimising the total distance run. I heard and please someone find the info, that LFC have covered the least distance of any PL side on the field this season. To put it into perspective, on the TalkSport commentary of the Ipswich game the commentators were laughing how little VVD ran and how he hadn't even broken into a sweat and even that he wouldn't need a shower after the game, just change and go home!

If this is true then it marks a very interesting change in attitude. It doesn't stop Mo getting old nor Robbo losing a yard in pace, but bringing Endo on now makes sense, get him to run in front of VVD so VVD shadows the game but doesn't always have to do the leg work. Mo is the exception, he still seems to run round like a loon regardless of the strategy.

Arsenal keep their hopes going by dismantling City.

Our game vs bitters won't be easy, last Derby at Goodison and Gollum managing then for it, they'll be pumped for that. They will want to ruin the party and end the final Derby in fashion.

I’m more worried about Everton than I was Bournemouth. Everton will play deep block and just try to stifle us, it will be the only trophy they could win so they will be at 200% intensity, we will have to match them.

Makes me laugh how carried away Arsenal get after a win, they celebrate like it is a cup final. 5-1 vs City was a good win but let's be honest, it wasn't the relentless City that they smashed. This City are a shadow of their self.

Danns going out on loan - big mistake

kazza » Mon Feb 03, 2025 8:47 am wrote:I’m more worried about Everton than I was Bournemouth. Everton will play deep block and just try to stifle us, it will be the only trophy they could win so they will be at 200% intensity, we will have to match them.

A draw wouldn’t be a disaster at Woodison. They will be out to ruin our title run. But a win would probably put us out of reach of arsenal.

The hyperbole on Sky last night was hilarious, given the fact they beat a very poor Man City. And genuinely shocking how much arsenal players dive.

7_Kewell » Mon Feb 03, 2025 1:14 pm wrote:

kazza » Mon Feb 03, 2025 8:47 am wrote:I’m more worried about Everton than I was Bournemouth. Everton will play deep block and just try to stifle us, it will be the only trophy they could win so they will be at 200% intensity, we will have to match them.

A draw wouldn’t be a disaster at Woodison. They will be out to ruin our title run. But a win would probably put us out of reach of arsenal.

The hyperbole on Sky last night was hilarious, given the fact they beat a very poor Man City. And genuinely shocking how much arsenal players dive.

"Arsenal have blown the title race apart" lol media are moronic.

Too early yet we are only in Feb.

Gary Neville banging on about how "Arsenal are perfectly positioned if Liverpool slip up"

Things is, we'd need to have a complete collapse in form. And even then Arsenal would need to win every game (which they won't do).

Even if we didn't win our game in hand and lost a game - Arsenal would still need to come to Anfield and beat us. They also have Forest away, which will be another tough game.

Credit where it's due, with their 10 man comeback last week and yesterdays demolition of City Arsenal are showing plenty of fight but we are showing we are not exactly shrinking violets ourselves. The result of the weekend was undoubtably Forest's 7-0 demolition of Brighton, well on Saturday we beat the team who recently battered Forest 5-0.
As we showed the weekend if we take care of our own business there isnt a thing anyone else can do. 15 games left for us, 14 for our rivals.