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Liverpool haven't won away from Anfield in Europe since the start of November in a 1-0 win against Ruben.
Klopp has lost all of his last 4 finals.
I am hoping it is the same team as Villareal and we can use our quality to beat them because we have got the better players. Just got to hope Klopp gets his preparation and tactics right.
You should check Sevilla's away record before running ours down! They didn't win away from home all season in La Liga. Win, lose or draw, we've done brilliantly to get here and the team and Klopp need to be praised regardless. It's amazing what you can get players to do with proper management and tactics.
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They really shouldn't be underestimated.
Their starting 11 is as strong as anything. And form goes out the window in a final.
These have to be taken seriously
Sergio Rico
Fazio
Carrico
Coke
Konoplyanka
Llorente
Gamiero
Banega
Khrycowiak
They haven't got the quality of the players Liverpool have got. Gameiro is a classic example. He's a very good player scored lots of goal throughout his career, their biggest goal threat yet he is not on the same level of Sturridge when fit. These are a good side but nothing we should be frightened about.
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Liverpool haven't won away from Anfield in Europe since the start of November in a 1-0 win against Ruben.
Klopp has lost all of his last 4 finals.
I am hoping it is the same team as Villareal and we can use our quality to beat them because we have got the better players. Just got to hope Klopp gets his preparation and tactics right.
At least he got us to a final with a weak team, something your dear Rodgers has never been able to do. Win or lose, Klopp has already done a big job, at least in this competition. Without proper tactics we wouldn't have got here My post wasn't meant to be a dig at Klopp. I was trying to point out that although we may be slight favorites to win the game tonight it isn't easy to predict which way it will go. On the whole, Klopp's tactics have worked very well in Europe. We've got a strong team. As soon as we knocked Dortmund out at the quarters we had the strongest remaining squad in the competition. No we don't have the strongest squad, what makes you say that?
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Liverpool haven't won away from Anfield in Europe since the start of November in a 1-0 win against Ruben.
Klopp has lost all of his last 4 finals.
I am hoping it is the same team as Villareal and we can use our quality to beat them because we have got the better players. Just got to hope Klopp gets his preparation and tactics right.
You should check Sevilla's away record before running ours down! They didn't win away from home all season in La Liga. Win, lose or draw, we've done brilliantly to get here and the team and Klopp need to be praised regardless. It's amazing what you can get players to do with proper management and tactics. Yes Sevilla's away record does look very bad but I don't think either team's away record will bear any relevance to tonight. Win, lose or draw, we have done brilliantly to get here and Klopp absolutely will be praised from me because I wasn't expecting a Europa final at the end of the season when he took over. However taking all competitions into consideration, if we lose tonight I can't consider Klopp's first (half) season a success. Our league results have been below what I expected so that in my view will cancel out our Europa progress. If we won tonight though then to get Champions League from where we were when he took over, that would be a brilliant achievement and Klopp's first season will be a success.
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Same team as usual I presume ? villereal home match team.
Massive game, can see us winning 3-1 or 3-2...Lallanna first goal.
we can't defend much, so go at em! Agreed, play to our strengths and not to our weakness, which is defending. So yes up and at 'em. If we can keep Kevin Gamerio off the ball we can win, as I think he's their main danger. I think it'll be a high scoring affair as both sides are likely to go for it, I'm plumping for 3 - 2 win to us.
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I think even 8th in the league isn't bad considering the disaster at the start of the season and swapping managers after 8 games. Add into the mix the horrendous injury list we had at one point and it doesn't look that bad.
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Liverpool haven't won away from Anfield in Europe since the start of November in a 1-0 win against Ruben.
Klopp has lost all of his last 4 finals.
I am hoping it is the same team as Villareal and we can use our quality to beat them because we have got the better players. Just got to hope Klopp gets his preparation and tactics right.
At least he got us to a final with a weak team, something your dear Rodgers has never been able to do. Win or lose, Klopp has already done a big job, at least in this competition. Without proper tactics we wouldn't have got here My post wasn't meant to be a dig at Klopp. I was trying to point out that although we may be slight favorites to win the game tonight it isn't easy to predict which way it will go. On the whole, Klopp's tactics have worked very well in Europe. We've got a strong team. As soon as we knocked Dortmund out at the quarters we had the strongest remaining squad in the competition. No we don't have the strongest squad, what makes you say that? We have a stronger squad because we can attract higher calibre players, we can afford more, and we can keep hold of top players for longer than the other teams. We have definitely got a stronger squad than Shaktar. Villareal have are an organized team but they can't match Liverpool when we get into full swing - you saw that 2 weeks ago. We had far more quality across the pitch. Sevilla have struggled a bit in the less competitive Spanish league. But the main is reason is how they recruit and sell players. They have bought good players on the cheap and they've done well. But they aren't top players and don't seem to keep hold of their best players for very long at all. None of the above clubs I don't think would have been able to keep hold of Luis Suarez for 3 and half years for instance.
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I think even 8th in the league isn't bad considering the disaster at the start of the season and swapping managers after 8 games. Add into the mix the horrendous injury list we had at one point and it doesn't look that bad. It's not bad but I think it's slightly below expected. I was expecting 6th or 7th and I slightly higher total points count. We've played well but we've been too inconsistent.
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I think even 8th in the league isn't bad considering the disaster at the start of the season and swapping managers after 8 games. Add into the mix the horrendous injury list we had at one point and it doesn't look that bad. It's not bad but I think it's slightly below expected. I was expecting 6th or 7th and I slightly higher total points count. We've played well but we've been too inconsistent. To be fair though, if we hadn't been resting players recently for this European cup run, we probably would have picked up a few more points and climbed a couple of places in the league
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I think even 8th in the league isn't bad considering the disaster at the start of the season and swapping managers after 8 games. Add into the mix the horrendous injury list we had at one point and it doesn't look that bad. It's not bad but I think it's slightly below expected. I was expecting 6th or 7th and I slightly higher total points count. We've played well but we've been too inconsistent. To be fair though, if we hadn't been resting players recently for this European cup run, we probably would have picked up a few more points and climbed a couple of places in the league Yes maybe. Top 4 was probably our main aim in the league. We didn't get off to the best of starts and also after changing the manager I not sure how achievable the goal actually was. But there wasn't really a time in the season where we even looked like we might get into top 4. And also we might not have rested as many players in the league if we had a bigger reward to play for in the league.
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