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Bigpokey24 wrote: Sat Feb 05, 2022 6:47 pm
txj wrote: Fri Feb 04, 2022 2:51 am Two Liverpool players, Mane and Salah in AFCON final.

A great credit to LFC and Klopp for developing them.

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Which LFC and klop developed Mane and Salah..pure BS... did Chelsea develop Mendy and Salah? Did Fiorentina, Roma or Basel develop salah..what about Southampton and Rebull on Mane...shake my head....

My point is that Klopp developed them into world class players.
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Inter vs Milan 1-1

Firecracker of a game
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Giroud!

Milan come from behind to make it 2-1
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Milan win!

What a game
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Meanwhile in Munich its 3-2
Bayern vs RBL
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Elliot, Elliot!!!
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txj wrote: Sun Feb 06, 2022 2:39 pmElliot, Elliot!!!
Hope he develops for us like Foden with city
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More happy for Senegal and Mane than I am sad for Salah. It would have helped his ballon dor claim. But hope Mane gets a kick on. Salah will be fine. Mane after missing that penalty would have been devastated if they didn't win. He has an emotional part to his game. Took a while to get back after that Red card against City.
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Was equally happy for both but not beyond that.

None of them is SE...
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Jurgen Klopp has said Mohamed Salah is still struggling to come to terms with Egypt's penalty shoot-out defeat against Senegal in the Africa Cup of Nations final after returning to Liverpool this week.

Salah is expected to make his first Liverpool appearance since departing for AFCON duty at the beginning of January when Leicester City visit Anfield on Thursday.

Defeat against Senegal in Cameroon on Sunday saw Salah and Egypt lose a second AFCON final in three tournaments and the 29-year-old, whose appearance at the 2018 World Cup in Russia was hampered by a shoulder injury sustained against Real Madrid in the Champions League final a month earlier, has still to win a continental title with seven-time champions Egypt.

The loss to Sadio Mane's Senegal was compounded for Salah due to his inability to take a spot-kick in the shoot-out with Egypt being beaten before he was able to take the fifth penalty.

And with his international career once again failing to match his club achievements, Liverpool manager Klopp said that Salah has yet to overcome the disappointment of missing out on AFCON glory.

"Mo is very disappointed," Klopp said. "It's a massive thing. Losing a final is always hard, especially the way Egypt lost it, which makes it especially hard.

"He is happy to be back here, and he trained yesterday and today, but he is disappointed as well. We spoke obviously, and he will deal with it of course, but yesterday everyone could see he still has the final on his mind.

"I don't think there is a lot of space for more determination in Mo's mind. It's there for all of us, but when you lose a big final, it's really hard.

"But if you can use it [disappointment] for the next game or the next tournament, then it can be useful. How we will benefit from it exactly, I don't know."

While Salah is due to return to club duty against Leicester, Mane is a doubt to face Brendan Rodgers' team having been allowed to travel from Cameroon to Senegal to take part in the celebrations for the country's first-ever AFCON triumph.

"Sadio is not back yet, but it is such a big thing ([for Senegal] and you can see that by the celebration," Klopp said. "We didn't want to stress anyone there by asking him to come back, we just said enjoy it and come back as early as possible. I think that will be tonight."

Liverpool face Leicester as Manchester City's closest challengers in the Premier League -- Liverpool are nine points behind City with a game in hand -- and with hopes still alive of success in the Champions League and both domestic cup competitions.

And although he was reluctant to talk up the prospect of a clean sweep of honours this season, Klopp added Liverpool are determined to push hard on all fronts between now and the end of the season.

"It doesn't seem really likely [to win everything], but we are not here today to know what happens in May," Klopp said. "The focus is on the next game. That is the only way I know to win games.

"The next game is the next challenge. I couldn't care less at this moment, but we want to squeeze out everything from this season, whatever it means. I don't know any other way to give it a try.

"We have 12 games until the next international break so if we, as a club and supporters want to reach whatever the maximum is for us, we had better start creating atmospheres on the highest level and Thursday night is a good chance to do that."

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They should show him the video so he can come to terms with it. :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Jurgen Klopp has said Mohamed Salah is still struggling to come to terms with Egypt's penalty shoot-out defeat against Senegal in the Africa Cup of Nations final after returning to Liverpool this week.

Salah is expected to make his first Liverpool appearance since departing for AFCON duty at the beginning of January when Leicester City visit Anfield on Thursday.

Defeat against Senegal in Cameroon on Sunday saw Salah and Egypt lose a second AFCON final in three tournaments and the 29-year-old, whose appearance at the 2018 World Cup in Russia was hampered by a shoulder injury sustained against Real Madrid in the Champions League final a month earlier, has still to win a continental title with seven-time champions Egypt.

The loss to Sadio Mane's Senegal was compounded for Salah due to his inability to take a spot-kick in the shoot-out with Egypt being beaten before he was able to take the fifth penalty.

And with his international career once again failing to match his club achievements, Liverpool manager Klopp said that Salah has yet to overcome the disappointment of missing out on AFCON glory.

"Mo is very disappointed," Klopp said. "It's a massive thing. Losing a final is always hard, especially the way Egypt lost it, which makes it especially hard.

"He is happy to be back here, and he trained yesterday and today, but he is disappointed as well. We spoke obviously, and he will deal with it of course, but yesterday everyone could see he still has the final on his mind.

"I don't think there is a lot of space for more determination in Mo's mind. It's there for all of us, but when you lose a big final, it's really hard.

"But if you can use it [disappointment] for the next game or the next tournament, then it can be useful. How we will benefit from it exactly, I don't know."

While Salah is due to return to club duty against Leicester, Mane is a doubt to face Brendan Rodgers' team having been allowed to travel from Cameroon to Senegal to take part in the celebrations for the country's first-ever AFCON triumph.

"Sadio is not back yet, but it is such a big thing ([for Senegal] and you can see that by the celebration," Klopp said. "We didn't want to stress anyone there by asking him to come back, we just said enjoy it and come back as early as possible. I think that will be tonight."

Liverpool face Leicester as Manchester City's closest challengers in the Premier League -- Liverpool are nine points behind City with a game in hand -- and with hopes still alive of success in the Champions League and both domestic cup competitions.

And although he was reluctant to talk up the prospect of a clean sweep of honours this season, Klopp added Liverpool are determined to push hard on all fronts between now and the end of the season.

"It doesn't seem really likely [to win everything], but we are not here today to know what happens in May," Klopp said. "The focus is on the next game. That is the only way I know to win games.

"The next game is the next challenge. I couldn't care less at this moment, but we want to squeeze out everything from this season, whatever it means. I don't know any other way to give it a try.

"We have 12 games until the next international break so if we, as a club and supporters want to reach whatever the maximum is for us, we had better start creating atmospheres on the highest level and Thursday night is a good chance to do that."

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What a player Jota's becoming
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Superb first PL start by Luis Diaz.

He's come to play...unlucky not to have scored
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Worried about Firmino. Kept turning the ball over. And Jones messed up a counter by holding on yo the ball. 3 points and res penalty yo Salah. Salah is that good. Pay him. Jota! And yo think Mane wasn't even involved.
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Liverpool can still win the Premier League, but to be among club's greatest sides, they need more cups
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LIVERPOOL, England -- Nine points behind Manchester City, having played a game fewer than Pep Guardiola's team, and with a potentially crucial trip to Etihad Stadium still to come in April, Liverpool could still pull off a remarkable Premier League title triumph this season. Diogo Jota's double in a 2-0 win against Leicester City at Anfield ensured that Jurgen Klopp's team remain a threat to City's hopes of cruising to a fourth championship in five seasons.

This win kept Liverpool in that strange position of being mathematically close enough to City to not be out of it, but far enough behind for a title surge to seem highly unlikely. One thing for certain is that Klopp's side have no margin for error. One slip and they can surely wave the title goodbye.

"I do not think that [City] smell our breath already," Klopp said after this victory. "But we just try to win football games."

While the focus will understandably be fixed on that outside chance of a second title in three seasons, it should not be overlooked that Liverpool are, in the post-match words of defender Andy Robertson, "still fighting for four competitions."

Liverpool face Chelsea in the Carabao Cup final at Wembley on Feb. 27 (11:25 a.m. ET, stream live on ESPN+), while their FA Cup hopes remain alive and kicking after being paired with Premier League strugglers Norwich City at Anfield in round five. And in the Champions League, while their round-of-16 tie against Italian champions Inter Milan will not be easy, Liverpool's pedigree and recent performances in the competition suggest they will progress to the quarterfinals and possibly all the way to the final in Saint Petersburg on May 28.

Closing the gap to City is the immediate challenge, and it is one that will energise Klopp and his players. With Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane back in the Liverpool squad following Africa Cup of Nations duty, Klopp has a formidable group of players to select from in the months ahead and they are the one team that could achieve the near impossible.

No matter what happens in the Premier League, though, Liverpool must see the next three months as an opportunity to win the trophies that this team arguably deserves.

Since 2018, Liverpool have been City's most consistent challengers with a team that has earned comparisons to the club's greatest sides, but despite their incredible performances in the past four years, Klopp's team have won just two major honours in the Champions League (2019) and Premier League (2020). They have also won the FIFA Club World Cup and UEFA Super Cup as spin-offs from Champions League success, but it is the traditional honours that count for Liverpool, and this team has not won enough of them.

Over the same period, City have won eight major trophies. Eight to two is not a true reflection of the quality of City and Liverpool over the past four years, but City have taken the domestic cups seriously while Liverpool have put all their resources into Premier League and Champions League success.

This season gives Liverpool the chance to redress the balance, however, and rack up the silverware that will enable this team to share the pantheon with Anfield's greatest sides. The Premier League is arguably the most unlikely trophy they can win, but Salah showed no post-AFCON hangover during a 30-minute substitute appearance that could have seen him score a hat trick and Jota once again highlighted his ability to decide games with his two goals.

Jota put Liverpool 1-0 ahead on 35 minutes when he scored from close range after Leicester keeper Kasper Schmeichel palmed away Virgil van Dijk's powerful header. The former Wolves forward then made the points safe on 87 minutes with a neat turn and shot from 12 yards.

Jota's performance, and that of new signing Luis Diaz, were impressive and encouraging in that Klopp will know he can rely on both when, or if, Salah and Mane need to conserve their energy in the weeks ahead.

In the next 106 days, Liverpool will play a minimum of 19 games in all competitions, but if they are able to go all the way in the FA Cup and Champions League, they will have to play another eight. Twenty-seven games in 106 days would mean a fixture every four days, not to mention international fixtures for the majority of Klopp's players, so Liverpool will be tested to the limit if they are to sustain a challenge on four fronts.

But this team is good enough to do it, and it maybe needs to do so. When history judges this Liverpool side, it will seem an anomaly if they end up winning far fewer trophies than they were capable of.
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txj wrote: Fri Feb 11, 2022 12:38 am Superb first PL start by Luis Diaz.

He's come to play...unlucky not to have scored
I really liked what I saw....

Will be interesting to see whether he starts vs Burnley.
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Alategun wrote: Fri Feb 11, 2022 1:40 am Worried about Firmino. Kept turning the ball over. And Jones messed up a counter by holding on yo the ball. 3 points and res penalty yo Salah. Salah is that good. Pay him. Jota! And yo think Mane wasn't even involved.
He does that often...
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Ugly win, but they all count.

3 points is 3 points is 3 points.

Impressed with the control and game management in 2hf
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txj wrote: Sun Feb 13, 2022 5:17 pm Ugly win, but they all count.

3 points is 3 points is 3 points.

Impressed with the control and game management in 2hf
Helped having Naby, Thiago and Fab in midfield once Hendo departed...
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Suspect Inter will be a difficult game. Very experienced side...
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Damn that Luiz Diaz na faya well done to your recruiting and scouting team.
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txj wrote: Mon Feb 14, 2022 9:13 pm Suspect Inter will be a difficult game. Very experienced side...
Should be a good game. Barella will be a big miss for them.
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Elliot starts, wow. Klopp has serious confidence in this kid.

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