please log in to view this image Saturday 15th September 12.30pm Premier League Wembley Stadium A rather pointless and dull international break is over and we're back to business. Things didn't go well for us in our last match prior to it though, so we've got some work to do. Having lost to one side with a 100% record in the league, we now face one of the other two. A dramatically improved performance will be needed if we're to take the points in this one. Jurgen Klopp's team spent heavily this summer and it's working out well for them so far. Alisson was brought in to replace the unfortunate Karius in goal and became the most expensive keeper ever. Keita's transfer was finally completed and he was joined by Fabinho and Shaqiri. With £160m+ spent and little recouped, it's probably not surprising that they're expecting to challenge. Their opening fixture did little to dispel thoughts of a title run, as they demolished West Ham 4-0 at Anfield. The visitors had spent a fair amount themselves, but the gulf in class was still evident. The following three matches were a little tighter though, despite all going the same way in the end. Chris Hughton gave them a tough day, as Brighton went down to a single goal from Salah. This is the start of a rather testing run for both sides, as the Champions League draw wasn't kind to either. The League Cup also put us both up against unbeaten Premier League sides in Chelsea and Watford. The result here could set the tone for a very important set of games. Pochettino will want to correct the mistakes from our last match and get back on the front foot. Last year's match at Wembley was one of the early high points of the season. Diego Maradona was a surprise guest and he got to see one of our better performances. An early goal by Kane set the tone, as Lovren was caught out and his team paid the price. The same applied to our second, as Kane raced clear of his marker and picked out Son to make it 2-0. Salah pulled one back, but an Alli goal before the break killed it off and Kane's second put any doubts to rest: The visit to Anfield was less one-sided but probably no less entertaining. It was our turn to start poorly and make defensive errors, as Dier put Salah in on goal after barely two minutes. Both sides created chances and failed to take them, until a Wanyama thunderbolt leveled it up late on. That was just the start of the drama though, as Kane was awarded and missed a penalty. Salah gave them the lead back in injury time before another penalty was given to us and Kane put this one in. No injury news yet, as everyone makes their way back from international duty. Neither side has any suspensions. Lineups for each side's last league game: Spurs: Vorm; Alderweireld, Sanchez, Vertonghen; Trippier, Dembele, Davies; Eriksen, Alli; Moura, Kane. Subs: Gazzaniga, Walker-Peters, Rose, Dier, Wanyama, Winks, Llorente. Liverpool: Alisson; Alexander-Arnold, Gomez, van Dijk, Robertson; Wijnaldum, Henderson, Milner; Salah, Firmino, Mane. Subs: Mignolet, Matip, Moreno, Keita, Lallana, Shaqiri, Sturridge. Referee: Michael Oliver. TV: Sky Sports. Which of the various systems that we've tried would you use for this match? Does anyone need to be dropped or rested and who should come in to replace them? Is the balance of our bench right or would you alter it?
Not Michael Feckin' Oliver!!!! FFS!! Think I'll go into hiding for a few days - nothing good will come our way in this one
Hugo Tripps, Toby, Jan, Rose Dier, Winks Lucas, Eriksen, Son Kane If Rose plays like he did for England then that’ll be lovely. Alli I presume is 50-50 so I’d rather not start him. Sonny to come back with a bang.
I'd love to think we can win this, but I suspect we'll see what we saw against Watford, only against a side that is ten times better. My heart wants us to scrape a lucky and undeserved draw, but my head says that we're going to take a massive and humiliating dry-humping.
What's with all of the negative vibes dudes? It's only the mousers, don't worry, not this time around at least, next year will be their year, you know what I mean!
Quick, everyone start tweeting about how he's biased in favour of Saltypool, that'll get us a couple of blatantly offside goals head start!
Not such a bad idea although a bit late. We should have retired the Lillywhite after the last Manure game at WHL only to resurrect it on the day that we return.
Goalkeeper is the only position where it is almost impossible to have two really top class players. Our second choice is as good as any, and probably better than most.
Personally I'd rather Gazinga Gazaniga started, as Vorm always seems to have at least one colossal derp in him
I was going to in the match thread itself, but I thought better of it. Apparently we've won our last nine with him as ref. I find that hard to believe, to be honest. He's bloody awful and lets teams kick the **** out of us.
