😆 Sparks will fly in the first fixture

11 days later

Love the fact United are going into the season with Solskjaer in charge. Joke club!

Solskjaer was awful after that post-Mourinho bump. We know exactly what we are getting.

They have some interesting kids coming through though. Much like our batch will be interesting to see how many of them make a mark this season.

I split out some recent posts to create new threads, you lazy bums.

Who usually leads the prediction charge? Always enjoyed the speculation around league standings, top scorer, breakout players, etc.

You’re it, Mr T. Let’s go!

This season will be much better than last years painful watch

Year of spurs struggle

4 days later

😆 That emoji summarises it.

Need a new thread for that, don't mix this up

[Twitter]

After completing his £27.5million move to Everton, the Italian forward trained with his new team-mates on Tuesday and fellow newcomer Jean-Philippe Gbamin.

'I would say I will score seven as a minimum,' he told reporters at his press conference on Tuesday, as report the Liverpool Echo.

'But I am capable of scoring more,' Kean added.

What? Why 7?! 😆

Thanks for the honest appraisal, Moise. 😆

Chelsea.
So they've given up one of their 4 best central defenders to a rival
Pulisic is no Hazard
Meanwhile both Hudson-Odoi and Loftus-Cheek are still out with long-term injuries.
I'm really hoping that this season they yo-yo down to 7th or 8th.

Liverpool ahead. Norwich with an embarrassingly bad own goal.

Crazy OG from Norwich but they are pretty smooth in attack

Norwich cutting through with ease at times

This is going to be a rout. Terrible defense.

Norwich always bend over for Liverpool.

Nobody expected Norwich to do anything at anfield, did they? 😆

Nah but there's always a chance that a newly promoted side makes life difficult and cagey in the first game of the season.

Not that I'd necessarily want to watch that

Fuck it. 3-0. The greatest player of all time with the header

Ok, I didn't expect much from Norwich but I expected them to keep the score below 3-0 before 30 minutes.

Why don't teams defend like that against us on opening days.

Norwich is pretty hopeless

We should ask for the same package when we play them 😆

Everyone comes up feeling great. Big run out at Anfield - want to show their stuff. It's a world cup final for most of these lads.

Inevitably it turns to tears.

Liverpool aren't just one of the best teams in the country, they're one of the top 3-4 teams in world football.

Firmino took a sure goal away from Origi there. Krul having a good game and its still 4-0.

Norwich may not be up the gears or capable, but Pool are really fluid in possession. Getting the ball off them or foiling their lateral progression requires serious coordinated pressure.

They just have tons of bodies in the box when they attack.

Norwich always pull their pants down for Liverpool. Useless.

Anfield does pull a lot of pants down, tbh.
Just ask Barca (4-nil) and ourselves (5-1)

TAA's defending has got worse over the summer

Iwobi took little old Trent to the cleaners every time he got the chance to go at him at Anfield.

I wonder how bad Alisson's injury is. It didn't look great when he hobbled off.

Ricky1985 wrote:

Iwobi took little old Trent to the cleaners every time he got the chance to go at him at Anfield.

Nope.
Trent played very well at Anfield much to my disappointment as i had predicted his flank being the weak link.

Bold Tone wrote:
Ricky1985 wrote:

Iwobi took little old Trent to the cleaners every time he got the chance to go at him at Anfield.

Nope.
Trent played very well at Anfield much to my disappointment as i had predicted his flank being the weak link.

I disagree. Iwobi had him every time he went at him because the kid is a genuinely awful one-v-one defender.

But if you want to talk about weak link, rewatch the first goal of the game to see proof of precisely that. Maitland-Niles back post after Iwobi danced around you know who with a one-two and put it on a plate. That doesn't scream ready to me. Just because we couldn't defend for toffee doesn't change that fact at least.