GWT: Premier League Round 30

[Live in the Now]

Saturday, 10 March 2018
Time/Result	Home	Away	Venue
7:30 AM ET	Manchester United	Liverpool	Old Trafford
10:00 AM ET	Everton	Brighton & Hove Albion	Goodison Park
10:00 AM ET	Newcastle United	Southampton	St. James' Park
10:00 AM ET	West Ham United	Burnley	Olympic Stadium
10:00 AM ET	West Bromwich Albion	Leicester City	The Hawthorns
10:00 AM ET	Huddersfield Town	Swansea City	John Smith's Stadium
12:30 PM ET	Chelsea	Crystal Palace	Stamford Bridge
Sunday, 11 March 2018
Time/Result	Home	Away	Venue
9:30 AM ET	Arsenal	Watford	Emirates Stadium
12:00 PM ET	Bournemouth	Tottenham Hotspur	Vitality Stadium
Monday, 12 March 2018
Time/Result	Home	Away	Venue
4:00 PM ET	Stoke City	Manchester City	bet365 Stadium

[TBODY] [/TBODY]

Lovren and Mane are talking a very big game about how they don't want to play in defensive teams, or that Liverpool would never play for a point like Manchester United. So this game will be funny one way or the other tomorrow. Unfortunately waking up at 4:30 is no longer an option as I'm not 20 anymore.

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[hatterson]

Pogba apparently pulled up in practice today and is in doubt for tomorrows game.

If he's out, United is 100% going to bunker up and hope to steal a late goal.

 

[YNWA14]

Let's be honest...United is going to bunker up and hope to steal a goal anyway (late or otherwise).

I hope we put them to the sword and chase them off the pitch. Let's go lads!

Karius
Arnold - Lovren - van Dijk - Robertson
Henderson
Chambo - Can
Salah - Firmino - Mane​

Time to take 2nd, even if Mourinho is a bad stylistic match-up for Kloppo. United is ****.

 

[Live in the Now]

The usual bus parking threat to Liverpool occurs when the team has players to counter. United doesn't if Pogba's out. They've played lots of bus parking teams in 2018 and have only failed to score against one of them. Porto being a dead rubber, can't really judge from that.

 

[hatterson]

Yea I don't put United's chances great if Mourinho's goal is to play deep defense and snag one on the counter. Especially with Martial and Pogba out.

Bailly being back is a big help, but I don't trust Young, Smalling, and Valencia helping enough to stop Salah/Firmino.

Initial lineup speculation I heard was something like this

Lukaku
Rashford - Sanchez - Mata
Matic - Pogba
Young - Smalling - Bailly - Valencia
​

If Pogba is indeed out, I'd guess McTominay would take his place, *maybe* Lingard. Lingard would offer more of a breakout threat, but still not a ton.

 

[Savant]

Pogba in the two is probably not a recipe for success against Liverpool. I’d be shocked if he didn’t play though.

 

[YNWA14]

The usual bus parking threat to Liverpool occurs when the team has players to counter. United doesn't if Pogba's out. They've played lots of bus parking teams in 2018 and have only failed to score against one of them. Porto being a dead rubber, can't really judge from that.

Huh? Sanchez, Lukaku and Rashford are better quality up front to counter than anything the mid and bottom table teams have.

 

[YEM]

I'd play the old xmas tree formation against 'Pool and let them have all the space they want on the flanks

hate this style of play from UTD under Jose

 

[The Abusement Park]

Pogba apparently pulled up in practice today and is in doubt for tomorrows game.

If he's out, United is 100% going to bunker up and hope to steal a late goal.

Weren't they going to do that regardless? Lol

 

[Live in the Now]

Huh? Sanchez, Lukaku and Rashford are better quality up front to counter than anything the mid and bottom table teams have.

Someone has to get them the ball.

 

[The Abusement Park]

Someone has to get them the ball.

That's why Sanchez and Rashford play deep. Then they can lump the ball up to Lukaku so he can play 1v4.

 

[YNWA14]

Someone has to get them the ball.

Well I mean...who is getting the forwards the ball when we play Swansea or Everton? Especially if Pogba isn't there there'll probably be a lot of lumping it long for Lukaku to fight for.

Of course with van Dijk in the side this strategy has become much less effective.

We'll see. With de Gea and their defensive set-up they usually can keep themselves in most games. I've never been more confident in our team though with Karius in the form he's in, our backline developing consistency and having van Dijk, and our forwards working so well together.

 

[hatterson]

That's why Sanchez and Rashford play deep. Then they can lump the ball up to Lukaku so he can play 1v4.

Lukaku will play a ton of chip ons.

It's an excellent strategy when no one is withing 30 yards of your striker.

Weren't they going to do that regardless? Lol

I think there's a difference between just playing defensive and playing like they did against Sevilla.

Initially I'd have expected a defensive setup, now I'm expecting a Sevilla type performance where it's 10 behind the ball at all times.

 

[Live in the Now]

I'm going to be very blunt. I absolutely hate these and would love nothing more than to get the three points here. Our team is good enough to go do it in convincing fashion. A loss would be a horrendous result and completely kill the vibe going over the last little while.

Would love to see the teams drawn together in the CL too.

 

[Prntscrn]

Ugh 5:30 morning. Early morning or just go to bed after?

 

[Savant]

Ugh 5:30 morning. Early morning or just go to bed after?

If you don’t go to sleep....

 

[Fro]

If you don’t go to sleep....

This

 

[Loopy0ne]

pass it to me, jk - im going to sleep

 

[Jussi]

Weren't they going to do that regardless? Lol

Not at home. Wasn't like that against Chelsea.

 

[Jussi]

Someone has to get them the ball.

Mata's a fairly competent passer and played well vs Liverpool in the past.

 

[Cassano]

Mata's a fairly competent passer and played well vs Liverpool in the past.

The video is still on the site. Lol.

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

Telegraph says Pogba will be out.

 

[YNWA14]

Let's gooooooooo

 

[hatterson]

Not at home. Wasn't like that against Chelsea.

It’s also possible they come out like they did against Arsenal.

Hell even against Spurs it looked like they were trying to take the game to them, it just got thrown off by a goal 2 seconds in. United still pushed hard after that. At least until the 2nd goal that seemed to break them.

 

[YNWA14]

How's that a foul exactly?