Key occasions
In my naivety I actually don’t perceive how the house workforce, who’ve a beautiful, non-public dressing-room to sit back out in proper there, finally ends up hanging round in a semi-glorified hall earlier than they exit and heat up. Good photograph, although.
The groups!
Workforce information is in, and listed here are the names within the body this afternoon:
Liverpool: Alisson, Bradley, Konate, van Dijk, Tsimikas, Gravenberch, Mac Allister, Salah, Jones, Diaz, Jota. Subs: Jaros, Kelleher, Endo, Szoboszlai, Chiesa, Gakpo, Elliott,
Robertson, Quansah.
West Ham: Areola, Todibo, Mavropanos, Kilman, Wan-Bissaka, Soler, Ward-Prowse, Scarles, Kudus, Lucas Paqueta, Bowen. Subs: Fabianski, Coufal, Fullkrug, Luis Guilherme, Alvarez, Rodriguez, Soucek, Emerson Palmieri, Ferguson.
Referee: Andrew Madley.
Hiya world!
Three extra wins. That’s, at most, what Liverpool have to win the league. There are not any different video games, no cups, no European journeys, no internationals, no distractions and no congestion – 9 of their final 10 video games in all competitions are being performed on Sundays, together with the entire remaining seven. West Ham’s away report is (very, very marginally) higher than their residence report (1.125 factors per sport at residence, 1.133 away) however neither is superb and so they haven’t been capable of maintain a mean of greater than a degree a sport for some time: they’ve received two factors of their final 4, eight of their final eight, 12 of their final 12. Briefly, they give the impression of being most unlikely to do something to derail Liverpool’s title bid. In truth, they haven’t seemed as unlikely to win a sport since they traipsed miserably to Arsenal in February having gained one level of their final 4 video games. Inevitably, soccer being soccer, they gained.
Right here’s Andy Hunter’s mini preview:
It isn’t a query of who will win the Premier League title however how will probably be gained: at a canter or with Liverpool testing the anxiousness ranges of their supporters as soon as once more? The reply ought to turn out to be clearer after West Ham’s go to. A listing of particular person errors resulted in the long run of Liverpool’s 26-game unbeaten league run at Fulham final weekend and left Arne Slot’s workforce nonetheless needing 11 factors to safe the membership’s twentieth league championship, though the full can be fewer ought to Arsenal drop any extra factors. West Ham, Leicester and Tottenham, Liverpool’s subsequent three opponents, current the extra simple path to victory than attempting to recover from the road in opposition to Chelsea, Arsenal, Brighton and Crystal Palace within the closing 4 video games of the season. Anfield could possibly be an apprehensive place on Sunday and can be trying to the workforce’s skilled leaders to get the job virtually finished.
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