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Pre Match Pre Match - Saints (A) - Sunday 2pm

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Alisson, Jota and Chiesa back in training as well, but not with the team yet. Good news.
 
Our lads better not be on the piss up after seeing this.

STAY AWAY from the boozies. STAY AWAY from the strip clubs. NO CELEBRATING. NO running around the gaff naked. NOTHING that can risk a sprained ankle, or a headache, or Covid, or HIV.

Good long nights sleep, plenty of energy drinks and plenty of protein and fibre.
 
No it doesn’t. Of course we could lose but it’s unlikely and Saints have been poor.

Banana skin me hole.
I admire your confidence, had the same before we played Forest, even thought we could rest a few players.

Don't ever underestimate a wounded animal.
 
Ali back in team training but out
Van Dijk in
Trent out
Elliot back in team training but out
Jota out
Chiesa back in team training but out.
This is the time where we see if Slot really learnt his lesson from brining Ali back too soon.
Playing Virgil with Real and City to come would be an unnecessary risk.
 
I admire your confidence, had the same before we played Forest, even thought we could rest a few players.

Don't ever underestimate a wounded animal.
Southampton are no animal. Of course they could win but it would a monumental shock. Banana skin implies there is strong potential if we aren’t at our best. We could be in second gear and win.

It’ll take something outstanding from them and for us to be rubbish to lose.

I don’t see either of those things happening.

Forrest have proven they were much better than what we realised before we played them and had the players to hurt us as they have many other teams.
Southampton don’t.
 
Southampton are no animal. Of course they could win but it would a monumental shock. Banana skin implies there is strong potential if we aren’t at our best. We could be in second gear and win.

It’ll take something outstanding from them and for us to be rubbish to lose.

I don’t see either of those things happening.

Forrest have proven they were much better than what we realised before we played them and had the players to hurt us as they have many other teams.
Southampton don’t.

Ah fuck.
 
Southampton are no animal. Of course they could win but it would a monumental shock. Banana skin implies there is strong potential if we aren’t at our best. We could be in second gear and win.

It’ll take something outstanding from them and for us to be rubbish to lose.

I don’t see either of those things happening.

Forrest have proven they were much better than what we realised before we played them and had the players to hurt us as they have many other teams.
Southampton don’t.

Lord forgive him. He doesn't know the powers he possesses.
 
Arne Slot has said he is having to raise his game because the standard running through the Premier League from top to bottom is so high. The Dutchman has led Liverpool to the summit after 11 games and quickly realised the step up in quality from the Eredivisie.

On Sunday Liverpool travel to bottom-of-the-table Southampton, where Slot is not expecting a walkover, as he believes any team in the division can defeat any other. Despite Southampton winning once this season, Slot praised Russell Martin for sticking to his principles of possession-based football.

“The biggest difference is that all the 17 other managers [in the Eredivisie], they have gameplans and style of play and all kind of great ideas, but the quality difference between the two clubs [AZ and Feyenoord] I worked for and the teams we faced was so big that you can come up with every brilliant gameplan but it doesn’t work because there is so much quality difference,” Slot said.

“Southampton and all these teams have players that can play for big clubs. If you have a good gameplan and a good playing style, it can really work against us or against Manchester City or against Arsenal. That’s what makes it more testing, the quality of the players especially. As a result of that, gameplans work better for these managers than for the 16, 17, 18 of the Eredivisie.”


Martin’s methods have been criticised but the former Scotland defender is unwilling to compromise despite the poor results. Southampton are the lowest scorers in the league with seven goals from 11 matches. In their most recent defeat, 2-0 at Wolves, Southampton had 72% possession but failed to get a shot on target.

“If you’re a manager, you have to believe in something and you have to stick to that plan,” Slot said. “Russell has his own style and he believes in it. There is no one that knows for sure that if he or the club wants to change the playing style, that that would lead to much more points.


“He brought them back up and he makes it really hard for every team to play against them. Normally, these teams that go up, they need some time to adapt to the new league. If you then have a good idea about football and a good gameplan, then results will come.”
 
Huge winds in Southampton today. Could be a messy game, let’s hope our players are all ok it with first touch and judging high balls
 
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