Match Thread Liverpool vs Everton - Saturday 1st April

[Thomasc]

So Lallana is out for them? Coleman and Mori for us?

 

[matty1878]

Personally hope we park the bus and counter on them.
Every team that has set up this way st Anfield has done ok.

We have to play this way. Try and get at them they will carve us apart.

 

[Saint Domingo]

Nerves starting to creep in now. Its been too long.

 

[sexualchocolate]

I fancy us to win this, just have a gut feeling, lukaku to be the difference...

 

[Furey1878]

Joel
Holgate Williams Jags
Lennon-------------------Baines
Gueye-----Davies
Barkley
Lukaku---Mirallas

Maybe, go to our usual 4-3-3 with Ross on the right is Scheiderlin is fit to start with Holgate at RB.​

 

[Badge1878]

Sky Sports News have been building this one up all day - it's a fixture that has happened twice a year for many a year - but Sky seem to have hyped it more than I've ever seen before. Still confused by Osman's statement on air this morning, repeated throughout the day about the supermarkets having posters about the game? Any clue anyone? Then him saying the local lads telli the rest of the dressing room how important it is as a fixture to the fans? Get real, it ain't WWE or some poxy boxing bout....they knew before they signed.

So, it's been a big splash all day day on SSN, but to be honest, for the rest of the country and the watching millions across the world, it's a local squabble that they can never understand the importance of. I've said before, we need to turn up for once. Forget the hype if we can, there are injuries, golden boot candidates, recent passings that need respecting, but once that whistle blows, it'll be eleven against eleven.

My only request is that we have a real go; I reckon the chosen eleven on the day owe us one, I'll take whatever the result is provided we turn up for once. If we do turn up for once there is more than enough quality to take all three on the day.

 

[paulbefc]

Joel
Holgate Williams Jags
Lennon-------------------Baines
Gueye-----Davies
Barkley
Lukaku---Mirallas​

This is the team I'd really like to say would work, but can't quite commit to it because you can't be sure Lennon will fit in there.

He should, in theory. He works hard, is the right winger we always used to play when the right back needed protecting so obviously has defensive qualities, can get forward and back etc etc... but in reality he might be useless there, especially in a derby.

 

[Furey1878]

This is the team I'd really like to say would work, but can't quite commit to it because you can't be sure Lennon will fit in there.

He should, in theory. He works hard, is the right winger we always used to play when the right back needed protecting so obviously has defensive qualities, can get forward and back etc etc... but in reality he might be useless there, especially in a derby.

If Victor Moses can do a shift there then I'm confident Lennon can too.

 

[neil999]

Joel
Holgate Williams Jags
Lennon-------------------Baines
Gueye-----Davies
Barkley
Lukaku---Mirallas

Maybe, go to our usual 4-3-3 with Ross on the right is Scheiderlin is fit to start with Holgate at RB.​

I like it, but we haven't tried it once this season..

 

[flo]

I got a ticket in the home section of the Anfield Road Stand. Would you recommend not celebrating an Everton goal? Would the stewards ask me to leave in the worst case?

 

[GueyeBhoy]

Backs to the wall, last ditch stuff this week before we even start with the Manky Mob.
Do them, do them until it tickles the back of their teeth.

 

[The Rhino]

Joel
Holgate Williams Jags
Lennon-------------------Baines
Gueye-----Davies
Barkley
Lukaku---Mirallas

Maybe, go to our usual 4-3-3 with Ross on the right is Scheiderlin is fit to start with Holgate at RB.​

Lennon has been woeful at RWB although I would rather him than Kenny tbh. Frustrating as Mccarthy has been played there under Koeman at the start of the season and done an okay job but once again he put his national side ahead of us and is out again.

Barry no doubt will play and cost us. Carbon copy of not closing Kane down with Coutinho scoring outside the box will happen if he plays.

 

[Mosh Pit]

I got a ticket in the home section of the Anfield Road Stand. Would you recommend not celebrating an Everton goal? Would the stewards ask me to leave in the worst case?

I wouldn't mate. Avoid any unnecessary trouble.

 

[Badge1878]

I got a ticket in the home section of the Anfield Road Stand. Would you recommend not celebrating an Everton goal? Would the stewards ask me to leave in the worst case?

Judge the situation yourself mate. Football is an emotive game. If you act up in front of any home fans when your team score, it's your call. But don't whinge about it later if it ends in tears.

I'd love to pretend that the Derby - at either ground - has fans sat side by side wearing their respective colours, wishing one another the best and that goals for either team result in a handshake and a well done.

By asking the question, it could be a first or recent visit to the Anny Road. The game will determine the mood of those around you. Use your common sense is my advice - and if you need to fit in - take a selfie stick, write out the words to a few verses of nonsense and speak double Dutch.

Then when we score...

 

[Furey1878]

I like it, but we haven't tried it once this season..

It's the formation we played against City at home, however Lennon hasn't played as a wing-back this season and maybe Jagielka wouldn't be comfortable playing as a left-sided CB.