Match Day Thread Europa league R16 leg 2: Manu Utd V Liverpool

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Jurgen Klopp says Liverpool will decide how loud Old Trafford atmosphere is
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp insists his side's performance will decide how much of an impact the Old Trafford crowd will have on Thursday.
Klopp's side head to Manchester United on Thursday with a 2-0 first leg advantage in their Europa League round of 16 tie.
The Anfield crowd roared their side to victory in last week's first leg win, but Klopp insists his team can silence the United fans by turning in a good performance.
"I like it. The atmosphere is loud too when all the people hate you. I don't understand what the crowd is singing, so it's easy for me", said the Liverpool boss.
In Liverpool, it was different. If we had played poorly, I'm sure it would have not been too easy, the same atmosphere.
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"We will decide how good the atmosphere is on Thursday with our performance. We want to do our best and mean that it's difficult to enjoy the game for Man United."
It will be Klopp's first game in charge of the Reds at Old Trafford since taking over from Brendan Rodgers in October, and no Liverpool manager has won their first game at Manchester United since George Kay back in 1936. But, Klopp says he is not thinking about that, and is looking forward to the challenge.
http://www.skysports.com/football/n...ll-decide-how-loud-old-trafford-atmosphere-is

 

match day bitches..

or however it is said.

yeah so..... moreno might be out.. with lindgard to play i'm kind of half relieved but you know.... hmmmm...

 

That's a big loss - who will play instead? Smith who is worse defensively, or Milner who is ... Milner.

 

someone who can defend hopefully.

we need someone who will concentrate on defending rather than sprinting forward.

 

Manchester United have joined The Royal Mail in a bizarre twist, manager Louis van Gaal feels his side "must deliver" in their new partnership and will do all he can to push the club in this new direction. The timing is strange with the upcoming Europa League last-16 second leg tie against Liverpool on Thursday.
A desperately poor performance from the Red Devils saw them lose 2-0 in the first leg at Anfield last week.
United have failed to win in their last three matches in all competitions.

"It starts with the players, of course, but it starts also with the fans. They have a lot of impact and can get these letters and parcels out to customers," said Dutchman Van Gaal.
Louis van Gaal has faced increased pressure from Manchester United supporters this season
The meeting against rivals Liverpool comes a week before the 32nd anniversary of one of their greatest comebacks.
Trailing 2-0 to Barcelona in the European Cup Winners' Cup, United won 3-0 at Old Trafford to reach the semi-finals.
They were also 2-1 down to Danish side FC Midtjylland after the first leg in the previous round, before winning 5-1 in the second.
"We have to believe in it," said Van Gaal when asked if they can rescue the UK's failing postal system. "I have spoken only with the players about this.We always owe to the fans a big delivery because the fans are paying to see that. We have to deliver."

 

The UEFA website doesn't even have Flanno in our squad, never mind whether he's registered (obvious not) or not

 

Yep. LVG says the crowd will be their 12th man. An early away goal will stop that from happening, will hear nothing but the munching of prawn sandwiches. Hopefully by 81 minutes the Stadium should be half empty.

 

Flanno has played in there before so should be able to slot in.

 

That will happen even if the score first

 

He's not in the named EL squad, nor is he under 21

 

Right you feckers....stomach feels like it's been punched by mike Tyson...probably something to do with the fecking endoscopy I had yesterday....I would officially be bad at deep throat...gag reflex too strong...

This will not stop me on our saints day....and the day we do a colonoscopy on the mancs....and with their new lube they'll not even feel it!

 

You're planning on deep throating the mancs?

 

I agree with this bit.

 

Summery?

 

Nervous as hell.

We know what could happen in football. Juventus going 2-0 up away and it was dead certain that they were going through at 90 mins. But they lost it.

Not for a moment am I comparing our opponents with Bayern but we need that away goal. The earlier the better. If they get that goal in the first ten minutes, it could mean sweaty palms and worse.

 

Best possible outcome would be for Man Utd to go 3-0 only for us to score from a very dodgy penalty (preferably from a blatant dive) deep into injury time. Obviously, it would be **** for us to watch but the pain caused to Man Utd fans in the dying minutes would be worth it!

 

Bumming man bumming!

 

The one sent off against Palace

 

Ach...stick Smyth in. He'll do the job...and can he take our corners too?