Might as well start this since there's no individual match threads. Team for tonight: Mignolet, Clyne, Skrtel, Sakho, Moreno, Can, Allen, Milner, Lallana, Coutinho, Origi. Subs: Bogdan, Toure, Benteke, Firmino, Lucas, Ibe, Randall. Firmino and Benteke are back . .
Glad to see Coutinho out there to start instead of having him come on in the 63rd to try and grab a winner.
There's no excuses for us to not go on and win this game now. Hopefully we see Firmino and Benteke on at some point soon.
Looks like it's going to be a disappointing night. Average performance really but it'd be unrealistic to expect Klopp to alleviate problems that have dogged us for the last year or so having been in the job for 2 weeks. Lallana, Sakho and Can played really well, but we need to produce more quality in the final third.
Poor result given they were down to ten men. Was about to name the same three as Mach did - Lallana, Can and Sakho - as our standout players, once again Milner terribly disappointed. The rest were ordinary. Can is looking a more settled player under Klopp and will hopefully grow into an outstanding midfielder for us.
Good to see Sakho getting the recognition he deserves, hopefully tonight made the outside media outlets wake up. I was up the other end to their goal, seeing things though looks a hash between Skrtel & Clyne, and Skrtel again being too deep and out of line. He's a fine defender in a low block, but there's too much to his game that's simply unsuited to the way we'll try to play pushing up. There's a few issues - deepst mid, RCB & lack of pace in attack & in the play, but we're missing 4 huge payers for us. Henderson in for Milner would make a big difference for example. Milner's workrate is outstanding but he's just not providing the quality we need from the mid in his role, I think we all forget just how important and how good Henderson actually is. Thought Firmino looked decent when he came on, smart, lively and we finally looked to penetrate them and he is quicker using the ball too. Phil & Lallana (who was great in everything but the final ball) were holding on too long before releasing all the time, Coutinho being way too selfish, but I guess Origi wasn't providing much of an outlet. Coutinho also needs either to be benched or moved deeper, where his ability to use the ball quickly over more of the pitch will be more effective I think. He's got plenty to work with though, will take a couple of months to filter through. Any team will look blunter without their first 3 strikers and using a 20 year old still finding his feet.
Starting 11 for anyone who hasn't seen it, hope we can take an early lead and get a few players off early, Clyne and Benteke need wrapping up in Kevlar.
It would have been nice if we could have got ourselves into a stronger position early on, so that we could have taken the youngsters to this game, rather than a strong team like we have done.
Yep. Totally dominant but lacking that final ball. Loving Firmino's one touch passing. Ibe has been very good too.
Kazan are camped in there box, makes it harder for us to get that final ball right. A goal would settle the nerves, and may make Kazan opt for going more for the game, than hoping to hit us on the counter which will open up the game. Sakho has been undroppable since Klopp has come in, he's been good at the back.
If I was a Liverpool fan it would worry me greatly that little Mickey Owen and the other dipstick seem to thing it's a forgone conclusion and just a matter of time before Liverpool finish this game off. We've all seen games like this and they don't always pan out that way. They should really know better.
Bit unlucky not to be leading really. Final ball needs to improve though, especially from wide areas.
It winds me up to see teams camped out in their own box at home, gives us less space to work with. I'm surprised how much we've bossed this, but we really need some more players capable of putting the ball in the net though, we might need Coutinho on for a bit of magic later if it stays like this. It's concerning how strong our team is, the players will be knackered for the Palace game.
