In summary, he said: They will beat us. It will stop Klopp crying. We will pick up injuries too. Then lose the final.
Apart from anything else how good would it feel to insult Liverpool by saying we don't even care so we are playing the under 19s.
Nah, I would hate for it to help kick-start their season, even if it meant we had a fully fit squad for the cup final.
Say we lose botman ? We then have to play lascelles in the final.. a couple of injuries to botman and trippier and any slim chance we have of our 1st pot in 70 years is gone. **** Liverpool I want to win the Cup... they can wait.. food for another day.
Newcastle will play their best players get injuries, still lose the game and then end up playing an 11 containing Murphy and lascelles at Wembley.
Our very best is suspended. It’ll probably be tight and we will either get narrowly beat or draw. I felt we needed to win today to have a chance vs Liverpool. But we’re stuttering. Maybe everyone is distracted by the cup, so hopefully in a couple of weeks whatever the outcome we can focus more.
Once Guimareas comes back in it'll improve , but I actually think losing Willock is a blow .. he never hides , he's formed a good relationship with Joelinton on our our left and it is most definitely the left that is in need of urgent surgery.
I thought Longstaff had a good game, he seemed to alter his role slightly with Willock going off. For all the talk of issues if Isak/Wilson can find their feet (they're looking good in patches but not at the level they can be by any margin) then we'd have won against Bournemouth (both games btw!) and our position would be looking a lot stronger.
