Van Dijk, Alexander-Arnold and Wijnaldum fitness latest Trent Alexander-Arnold and Georginio Wijnaldum are fit for Liverpool's trip to Chelsea on Saturday, but Virgil van Dijk remains a doubt. All three players missed the Reds' midweek Carabao Cup exit to Maurizio Sarri's side, but Alexander-Arnold and Wijnaldum have recovered from illness and a knock respectively to be available for the Premier League fixture at Stamford Bridge. Van Dijk, though, has not yet resumed team training after exacerbating a rib issue during last weekend's 3-0 victory over Southampton. "Trent trained yesterday completely normal. It was not a knock, Trent was a bit ill, but yesterday that looked pretty good. Virgil we have to wait, he didn’t train with the team so far but I can’t say anything more about that. Gini trained as well, so all good," Jürgen Klopp said on Friday. When questioned further about the possible absence of Van Dijk, whose imperious form helped Liverpool reel off seven successive wins at the start of the season, the boss chose to highlight the qualities of the alternatives at his disposal, as well of those of the Dutchman. Klopp continued: "Virgil is a world-class player, there is no doubt about that, and if you miss a world-class player it is not cool. But Dejan Lovren made his first appearance after I would say around 10 weeks [on Wednesday]. "Most of that time he was that injured that he couldn’t even think about training because when you have something in that part of your body you cannot do fitness, nothing. And after that long period, he played an outstanding game. "Joel Matip, two games in a row, played fantastic. Both full-backs [Alberto Moreno and Nathaniel Clyne] didn’t play in the season so far, so we all get judged constantly but for the boys it’s much more important what I think about their performance than what you think about their performance. I can imagine people say ‘thank God all the others come back’, but these boys did a really good job. "So, if Virgil is fit and can play then he will play, but if not then obviously we have options and that’s really good. His [Van Dijk’s] impact is always obvious, but we could play football before Virgil van Dijk and we can play without Virgil, thank God. "But I prefer that he is fit and available and I can make decisions, if he needs a rest or not in one of the other games. For the last game he was not available but now we will see for tomorrow." https://www.liverpoolfc.com/news/fi...nt-wijnaldum-fitness-injury-liverpool-chelsea
Really looking forward to this match. A win will confirm that we are indeed the favourites for the title together with City. We are at the top of our game whilst City whilst still formidable are not as dominant as they were last season. I can see them dropping points during the season. 3 points will confirm that we are currently the form team of the league. And that we are the team to beat if anyone wants to win the title.
Sarri is such a #joke He only has two answers to any question "Klopp has had four seasons" "Hazard is the best player in the world but we'll definitely take £200m"
You're playing your first choice ref but if we can keep him quiet it should be a routine win #onemanteam
Can't say I detect any difference in astro's modus operandi, tbh. How about you, Bobby - feeling confident with your "inferior" squad?
Definitely different, i would be expecting the usual hazard hasn't produced much, players taking the year off. He's gone onto Sarri can only answer without having a #meltdown is very poor from astro. Confident with the team to get something out of the game although i don't fancy the left side of Luiz and Alonso. Inferior team as voted by Liverpool fans (who answered) this year but we're at home so should hopefully get something
Nah, astro always distributes his opprobrium generously. Who might that be then? You might have noticed that I've already said your bleatings about an inferior squad are just a case of getting your excuses in early. There's no way you are below us - as a whole- in anything other than attitude. If we end the season 15 points or so ahead of you I might revise my opinion, but until then.....
just for you mate (and i have some time) https://www.not606.com/threads/league-table-2018-19.362730/ JB = Pool 2, Cheslea 6 MITO = Pool 4, Chels 5 Libby = Pool 2, Chels 5 Zanj = Pool 2, Chels 6 Bisc = Pool 2, Chels 5 Milk = Pool 2, Chels 6 (that's like half the active people). No need to ask Astro, Pool 1 , Chelsea 24
That was in June, ffs, ask them what they think now. I think most can see that, at the moment at least, you look every bit as serious contenders as we do. Oh, and not even astro believes you can come 24th out of 20.
TBH you've been outstanding under sarri so far so well ahead of the "transition" allowance. Utd on the other hand have a manger actively trying to fight with all his players to get the sack (like he did at your lot) I'm personally just glad utd look like they are doing their damnest right now to be 5th. Interestingly spurs look shattered right now so they might have to do extra well at going out of cups to have that perennial good run to top 4 they like to do nowadays (arsenal lite)
