Liverpool travel to Istanbul, yes that Istanbul, to take on Galatasary on Tuesday 30th September at 8 pm in Game Week 2 of the Champions League. Match available on Amazon Prime. The teams have met on four previous occasions, the last time being 19 years ago. It's getting increasingly harder to predict the team given the amount of new players and Slot's recent desire for experimentation. I'll have a go. Predicted lineup: Alisson, Bradley, Gomez, Virgil, Robbo, Jones, Gravenberch, Szoboszlai, Salah, Ekitike, Gakpo
Right now, the team that we have to protect for the league is mostly last seasons team - the newbies should all start here, with the exception of Isak, who will be ****ed. I have no idea who will play tbh but we need to rest Grav, Maca, Szlob whenever we can,
Think Chiesa will start probably instead of Gakpo .and possibly Gomez replacing Konate. May even see Salah "rested"
No chance that’s happening. Gakpo Ekitike Salah start up top. Chiesa might get 20 minutes. Isak might get 20 minutes. Ngumoha might get 20 mins.
Maybe its a paperwork thing. Its a **** system uefa have if they cant fix the registration in time to not miss games a week later. Alisson, Gomez, Endo, Van Dijk, Konate, Kerkez, Wirtz, Szoboszlai, Isak, Mac Allister, Salah, Bradley, Jones, Gakpo, Ekitike, Mamardashvili, Robertson, Woodman, Frimpong, Gravenberch, Ngumoha. My side Alisson Frimpong konate vvd Robertson Gravenberch macallister Salah wirtz gakpo Ekitike Launch szoboszlai on 60 for macallister Keep Jones sat down unless we are winning Make wirtz play 90 at 10 and bench him.on the weekend. Give Ekitike 60 and isak 30. Let's get wirtz going in the cl where the football and refs will suit him Let's do the same with frimpong.
I hope the spirit of Istanbul 2005 is there for us to be emulated. Good luck. https://www.thisisanfield.com/2025/09/federico-chiesa-out-as-liverpool-name-21-man-travelling-squad/
We've never actually won in 90 mins in Istanbul IIRC. I'm not looking forward to this. These tricky CL weeks were where Klopp more often than not got his rotation spot on. Slot's still finding his feet with the influx of new signings and their relative fitness levels/form etc.
Should be a tasty game if nothing else. Thry have some serious names and then some players we should breeze by as well. If salah turns up again in the cl its full to the theory he is only motivated by 1 comp
Chiesa injured so has not travelled. Will be a tough game, but might suit Wirtz as it will be less frantic than the Prem. All depends on who Slot plays and in what position the players are asked to play.
It'll be interesting. They got destroyed by frankfurt last week. But Turkish sides dont travel well. Never have. Gundogan and sane will play i presume. Their games were then Monday night and firday night so they come into this game fairly well worked over. Really guys it should be a big atmosphere but we should be powering through this. We should. Now who knows but they do have some interesting players there.
