2022-2023 PL: Liverpool vs. Southampton

(The Guardian) Afternoon. Jürgen Klopp is currently giving his thoughts on Liverpool’s opponents tomorrow, Southampton, who have a new manager in Nathan Jones. I’ll update you on his opinions shortly. In the meantime here’s a Liverpool-related view from reader Admir Pajiæ:

“Here is unpopular opinion: Thiago is basically a Veron. He is a brilliant playmaker who signed for an English club that didn’t need one.”

I can see where you’re coming from Admir – Liverpool’s strongest midfield was the brawny Wijnaldum-Fabinho-Henderson trio. Thiago is a brilliant footballer, though at Liverpool he has often seemed less than the sum of his very talented parts. Perhaps injuries haven’t helped and the system perhaps isn’t best suited to him, either.

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Jürgen Klopp was asked about a few different subjects. On how he has prepared for the match this weekend he said the analysts had had to look at Luton as well as Southampton. -- I thought [Ralph] Hasenhuttl did an exceptional job [at Southampton]. If they showed anything it was attitude, they were highly motivated. We always expect a motivated opponent but there’s not a lot of time [for Jones] to change a lot. We have analysed them half Saints/Luton.

On Trent Alexander-Arnold’s England inclusion, he said: “[Trent] was very pleased about the news … I’m very happy for him. I heard Gary Neville said something [about Trent]. But he’s now 24 and won quite a few finals, important games where you have to defend against world-class players. He was always there, defending well. I don’t know why we have this discussion.” He then spoke about having only seven players at the World Cup, saying: “We would usually have Diogo [Jota] as well. I’m happy about the number we have for our pre-season training. Luis [Díaz ] is back running outside [which is] really positive. It’s our last game for a long time and that’s why we want to finish on a high.”

And on Ibrahima Konaté’s getting called up to a very good France World Cup squad, he said: “He was very good before, we can’t say he learned everything here! He came back in time for the World Cup. It’s worked out really well and he deserves it.”

just got home, checking scores

Man City beaten

Nunez just scored, winning 2-1 great goal to

just need to ber more clinical

Nunez

Stood his ground, maybe thats why he said no.

big Virg, massive header towards goal, unlucky