After a hard fought won against Everton, we are away to Fulham on Sunday. This is a tough game, I want us to win this. but a draw will not be too bad. We currently need 13 more points to seal the title. Before this game, Arsenal are away to Everton on Saturday at 12:30 early kick off. Our lead can be cut to 9 points, if Arsenal takes all the points. Position in the league: 1.Liverpool 73 points. 9. Fulham 43 points, Game: Fulham v Liverpool Date: 6th February 2025 Place : Craven Cottage Time: 14:00 TV. Live on Sky Sports (Main Event) Chris Kavanagh has been appointed as the referee. please log in to view this image Match officials in full: Referee:Chris Kavanagh. Assistants:Stuart Burt, James Mainwaring. Fourth official:Tom Bramall. VAR:Matt Donohue. Assistant VAR:Gary Beswick.
If we can approach it with the intensity we did in the second half last night we should come through this with the points. Arsenal pretty much did this for half an hour during their last game and they couldn't live with it. Were absolutely abysmal in the FA cup quarters too, so confidence will be down.
There was no real intensity in thst second half. Everton were bus parking and so deep thry could rarely get out. Their main route to attack was from defending corners or hoofing it a mile off any set piece. Fulham will do us over if we play like we did last night in either half. Alisson (get him back in) Bradley (get him in) Konate (quansah should be pushing him) Vvd Robertson Endo (it's high time gravenberch came.out of the team) Macallister Szoboszlai (high time we sub on elliott) Gakpo Jota (sub on diaz here) Salah. (When will we sub Simmons 60 for chiesa)
My view of fulham is thst craven cottage is the smallest pitch in the premier league and at home they can really push sides and press and counter. They are not half the side away from home imo. Palace absolutely smashed them at the cottage. They will be upset about that. The problem is this is their first home game after that smashing. I can see them being pumped up here. The smaller pitch also helps us. It's not that much smaller than anfield. It's nearly the same but every time we play them there we hate having nonsense and being closed down quick. The thing about them is that we usually see them taking a small club mentality after getting a lead. It ended 2-2 at anfield with us having 10 men. They stopped attacking.
Intent then maybe, rather than intensity. We were 1 and 2 touch passing and then first to every second ball to prevent the counter attack threat we were suffering in the first half. That has to be the level.
Some intent. Though honestly at one point before the goal slot was out waving his arms as jones basically stopped and cocked about in his now half not bothered to really do anything and nobody was moving or demanding a pass. The slowness as so poor, they did try cut out the second cb with passing second half and at least try to make Everton crab from side to side faster. We are so far off the pre December level now that this is really just about battling through. 1 game a week from here on in might help but we will see.
It's been gruelling. I'd personally have a look at the CL league phase next year and start with the second string tbh, it's honestly harder not to qualify and who cares about a play off game if your squad is fresh anyway.
I'd say you.need top 8 and have a fair idea how to get it. Someone somewhere will be in that 9 to 16 range as a bogey side and someone in the 17 to 24 can also be one. It was unusual this season to see realised psg there. You really don't need more than say 4th So yes home game against seed 4 should be a heavily rotated side but younhave ton win it still. I think we need to dump the cups. We have not got the team to play all those games We need to start dropping salah and playing for 60. We need peak salah for 60 not tired old salah for 90. Honestly his showings for the past 2 months (includes Ramadan) shows what the club might be thinking as you add afcon to Ramadan to the world cup and come up with an aging player who will burn out. If that is the thinking the the only solution is to prove yourself and buy the top replacement. The argument for contracts for vvd and salah has always been there's too much other things to try do as well and it's too much all at once. He'll after last night's **** show I'd happily bin van dijk except I know that was absolutely bizarre show.
CHRIS SUTTON'S PREDICTION : AWAY WIN 1:2 Gtech Community Stadium, 14:00 BST Chelsea's issue has been consistency - they played well to beat Tottenham on Thursday but can they back it up here? I am not sure. Brentford are another team I have struggled to get right this season, but I'd always back them to score. I have feeling this is going to be an open game with a few goals. A win would be big for Chelsea in their push for a top-five finish, but I don't think they will get it. Sutton's prediction: 2-2 Mychelle's prediction: Brentford are a good side but of course I am going to back Chelsea! We are a young team and I feel like we are improving all the time - I am really excited about next season but the target for now is to make the Champions League places and win the Europa Conference League, and I think we can do both. 1-2
My prediction is 1-1. I'm just not going to say what that prediction is in regards to. We'll beat Fulham.
My main fear is Fulham are counter attack specialists. We were atrocious v Everton on the transition. Everton were trash but Fulham could kill us if we play like thst.
I don’t know why both our CMs were so bad against Everton. They were all over the place and I am not sure which one was worse. Hopefully, they will sort it out before Fulham because we won’t get away with that sort of performance again. I think Slot needs to give Endo and Elliott more game time as well and why is Salah immune from getting the hook when is playing really badly as he has been for the last few matches
I would be happy to see endo start this game. I would be perfectly happy to not fall for their counter style and just hold enough back so that if 0-0 is the outcome than that's just fine by me. We need 13 points. 8 games. 4-1-3 If you assume we could get a draw at home to arsenal then that chances again. It becomes only needing 10 from 7 which is again 3 wins 1 draw territory. A draw away to fulham will do me nicely. Beat West ham. Beat leicester. See off a poor spurs side and that draw v arsenal wins the title.
Either we **** it right up and winning v palace or we sail through and are literally looking at being 1 point away v arsenal The way I see it now is thst arsenal have no hard games (Everton are not hard) between now and the big game. We have Fulham, west ham, Leicester and spurs. Win all 4 and literally all arsenal have is hope we lose every single gsme. I don't like bad losers. Last time fat Frank was a woefull bad loser (should be getting used to it by now) and imo the paella pulis is even worse.
I actually think arsenal drop points tomorrow, they’re all in for CL and have more injury woes. They won’t ‘fight’
tough one for them. In theory should be resting players for mid week but same time don’t want to seem disrespectful and that title is over but if he plays strongest 11 and gets another defensive injury or rice/Odegard for example will get a lot of stick
JONES KNOWS BEST HAS GONE FOR AWAY WIN TOO. 1; 2 Liverpool need a maximum of 13 points from their remaining eight games to bag the Premier League title. Arne Slot is playing the game very nicely - he has Liverpool very hard to beat. Nothing flashy. Just very professional. That is enough at this stage of the season such is the position they find themselves in. Slot's team remain on a very impressive unbeaten run in the league. It's now 26 games since they last tasted defeat - it's the club's second-longest unbeaten Premier League run and their fourth-longest unbeaten league run in the club's entire history. Liverpool are also the only team in English football unbeaten away from home this season. An away win looks good at 4/5 with Sky Bet. This could prove to be a comfortable game for Liverpool with over 300,000 Super 6 players backing them to win 2-0 Jamie Carragher once remarked that Diogo Jota is Liverpool's best Premier League finisher - and I totally agree with him. Yes, even better than Mohamed Salah. Jota's numbers back that theory up. The Portugal forward averages a goal every 142 minutes in the Premier League for Liverpool - that's a better record than Michael Owen (143) and Robbie Fowler (159). Jota scored the winner in midweek against and I'm always interested in backing Jota to score when he's looking this sharp and busy in front of goal. Him to score in a Liverpool win comes in at 100/30. SCORE PREDICTION: 1-2 please log in to view this image
