2019/20 Pre Season Thread
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Yea, we've got a couple of glamour games with Tranmere and then Bradford before we head out to the US:
- Tranmere - Liverpool 11/7/19 @ 7.30pm
- Bradford - Liverpool 14/7/19 @ 3pm
- Dortmund - Liverpool 20/7/19 @ 1am
- Sevilla - Liverpool 21/7/19 @11pm
- Sporting Lisbon - Liverpool 25/7/19 @ 1am
- Napoli - Liverpool 28/7/19 @ 5pm
- Lyon - Liverpool 31/7/19 @ 6pm
And now with a goalkeeper playing centre forward too!6-0 up so far
Neither his goals were much to write home about but he showed the goalscorers instincts to be in the right place at the right time to score them. What I was pleasantly surprised by was how he managed physically up against senior pros - he looks to have filled out a bit and had no problems matching their defenders for strength in 50-50 challenges.
Hoever was the standout player for me though. He played RB last night but he's just so naturally talented that you could see him playing anywhere. Like Brewster, he looks physically more developed than he did even from last January and you could see him featuring a fair bit this season. In fact I wouldn't be surprised if his emergence plus the Van Den Berg signing are the reasons why we're not in for a LB this summer - Hoever at RB and Van Den Berg at CB certainly give us plenty of options and free up Gomez to cover LB when needed.
Phenomenal ****housery from Sevilla in our game tonight. Two players booked for discent, the 1st of which (Banega) would have been a red had it not been a pre-season game and then the 2nd lad followed up his booking with a lunge straight through the back of Ox, again only escaping a red as its pre-season.
Wilson hasn't a hope of playing for us and Brewster's a kid that has spent over a year out injured. Pre-season has been a bit of a mish mash with so many players still not even back. The whole way we're set-up to play is based around our front 3 and without them we're having to shoe horn players into positions. Thankfully Bobby, Mo and Mane haven't had too much time off so shouldn't need long to get up to speed.
I'm not sure too much is up, it's pre-season. Our pre-season has been very fragmented though with lots of players returning late and the likes of Alisson, Firmino, Mane and Salah not even having returned. Throw in a couple of injuries to our other senior attack minded players and we've had a very unbalanced squad, often playing in makeshift formations because we don't have any forwards.
We will have 3 from tomorrow and then Mane back in another week tbf but yea, we could certainly do with another.
Other than Alisson still being drunk from the summer and giving away a pen, it's been the best 30 mins of our pre-season so far. Firmino, Salah, Keita & Shaq making their first appearances has really shown - we've been much sharper and fluid in our attacks. Defence is still all over the place but with 2 kids in their and Lallana as your defensive midfielder that's to be expected.
Harvey Elliott turned 16 in April. Got a feeling I'll be reminding myself of that a few more times - what a talent he looks, just needs a trip to the barbers. We could seriously do with a League Cup run this season because the likes of Elliott and Hoever deserve to be playing, they're both serious talents.
Much better performance overall and no real surprise given we had a few more senior players available. There'll be a few supporters calling for Wilson to be given a chance after his goal today but he's just another Andros Townsend imo - cracking strike from him though.
Much better performance overall and no real surprise given we had a few more senior players available. There'll be a few supporters calling for Wilson to be given a chance after his goal today but he's just another Andros Townsend imo - cracking strike from him though.
Klopp won't pick him. I'd bet you see us playing a 4-2-3-1 a lot this coming season which makes it even more unlikely that Wilson would get near the side.