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Here we go again fellas! The first game of the season is upon us and we've made some signings! I mean we've no idea what team Southampton are gonna line up with as we have most of their team from last season at Anfield now!

Let's get off to a flyer lads! I think Sterling is gonna make that step from outstanding last season to World Class this season. I've got high hopes for our new defense to tighten up and protect Mignolet a little more.

LFC 3 - 0 Saints (Sturridge 2, Sterling)

come on you reds!

Rock and roll time

Seems like ages since the last season

Hopefully the new boys will remember whose side they are on and we give them a walloping

4-0

This is a bit of a strange one with these losing so many players.
You would hope they will be totally disjointed but we have no idea at this stage how good their new lads will be.

Having said that at home last season (apart from conincidentally against these) we where outstanding and often blew teams away in the first half.
I expect us to try and start fast as we did against Dortmund and do think we should have too much.
I think we will play the same 11 that played last Sunday and hope Coutinho Sterling and Sturridge play as the did last week.

If they do we could really start well and put a marker down for the season.
Hopefully Markovic is fit enough to get some minutes in the second half as a sub as well.

The performance against Dortmund was a real tonic, if we perform to that level against a Southampton side who's players are surely still learning each others names we should come away with a comfortable 3-0 win.

we should see this one out comfortably 

                                                                      mingy

                                           johnson            skrtel     lovren         moreno

                                                            gerrard          hendo

                                               sterling              coutinho             markovich if fit.
                                                                   
                                                                       sturridge

Don't see him throwing Moreno straight in from the start. The only area of debate is the fullbacks. The rest of the side virtually picks itself.

3-0 to us.

stmichael » Fri Aug 15, 2014 3:16 am wrote:Don't see him throwing Moreno straight in from the start. The only area of debate is the fullbacks. The rest of the side virtually picks itself.

3-0 to us.

Was he the one that threw Enrique in a day or so after he completed his transfer, or was that before Rogers' time?

Flanagan, Lallana, Markovic and Agger all miss the game through injury.

Rodgers' pre game presser:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGJAg1DlKuc

We should be winning this one. Don't think we'll see Moreno. I expect the same line-up as against Dortmund. I hope we'll see Enrique instead of Johnson but that won't happen.

Agger, Flanagan and Assaidi are still injured and Moreno wasn’t registered in time. Markovic and Lallana have started running again but haven’t done any ball work so won’t be considered.

I think we’ll play the same players and system as we did against Borussia Dortmund with Coutinho in the middle with Henderson on the right. Can seemed to struggle (think he might be carrying an injury) so I’d expect either Allen or Lucus to come in for him.

I think we’ll see something like this:

                        Mignolet

Manquillo     Skrtel     Lovren     Johnson

                    Allen     Gerrard
                        Coutinho

      Henderson                       Sterling
                         Sturridge


Subs: Lambert, Ibe, Suso, Can/Lucus, Enrique, Sakho, Jones

ethanr » Fri Aug 15, 2014 1:31 pm wrote:

stmichael » Fri Aug 15, 2014 3:16 am wrote:Don't see him throwing Moreno straight in from the start. The only area of debate is the fullbacks. The rest of the side virtually picks itself.

3-0 to us.

Was he the one that threw Enrique in a day or so after he completed his transfer, or was that before Rogers' time?

before rodgers ethanr, summer 2011 is when he came in.

red till i die!! » Fri Aug 15, 2014 11:08 am wrote:we should see this one out comfortably 

                                                                      mingy

                                           johnson            skrtel     lovren         moreno

                                                            gerrard          hendo

                                               sterling              coutinho             markovich if fit.
                                                                   
                                                                       sturridge

How soul crushing it must be watching most of your team from last season swapping teams to the enemy. we only experience that every couple of years with 1 player but to have almost all of your first 11 go in one hit must be hard to take.

Poor *****.... 2-1 to us, i feel bad give em at least a goal to cheer them up (no more than that!    )

It seems ridiculous to say this about the first game of the season but IMO this one is pretty much a 'must win'. With 2 consecutive away games at Man City and Spurs on the horizon what we don't want (even this early) is a scenario where our rivals manage to open up a 6+ point lead on us.
I think one of the reasons we had such a great campaign last year was that we got off to a flyer which allowed us to stay right in the mix even when we did have the odd blip. When you are 6 points behind your rivals you are playing with a hell of a lot of pressure on your shoulders because another slip and that 6 quickly turns into 9 and so on and so forth.
Conversely if we are right at the top even with a tough fixture list it puts all that pressure back onto the shoulders of our rivals.
The press and the bookies have pretty much written us off, let's show them that this club is LFC not Luis Suarez FC.
Same team as last weekend please Brendan and a similar result will do.

Our first win this season the Scum just lost