2021-2022 PL: Liverpool vs. Watford

(The Guardian) With Trent Alexander-Arnold injured, Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mané still physically and emotionally recuperating from Tuesday’s World Cup qualifying playoff in Dakar – complete with extra time, penalties and laser beams – various South Americans making late returns from distant internationals and the first leg of a Champions League quarter-final to come on Tuesday, there could hardly be a better time for a plucky underdog to turn up at Anfield. But even allowing for the massive advantages the division’s leading clubs hold over the upstarts, Watford’s record at their grounds is abysmal: in all competitions since 1990 the Hornets have played away at Liverpool, Manchester City, Chelsea and Manchester United a combined 38 times, equivalent to one full top-flight season (albeit one with a particularly savage fixture list). In this notional season they have earned a total of six points, with 34 defeats and a single victory, at Anfield under Graham Taylor in 1999.

(The Guardian) A bit more Liverpool team news and it’s a familiar one: Naby Keita is an injury doubt.

Here’s Jürgen Klopp: “Yesterday Naby couldn’t train, felt a little bit here and there. I don’t know exactly yet, nobody called me yet about Naby for today. So we will see how he is for today. Apart from that, we had them pretty much all available.”

The midfielder’s injury ruled him out of international duty for Guinea. Klopp added: “Yeah, but that was kind of OK. Then he trained once and then he felt [it] again, so we need to see. Not sure if he will be, or can be, involved tomorrow.”

Thought we would go up a few gears second half.

Unlucky Jota, that should of been his third goal. Good effort tho

Two nil, Fabhino penalty

IOW, just another day at the office for the lads, huh? liverpool scarf-1 devil-1