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Bearing in mind we could be knocked out by Athletico Madrid next week as they will sit back and hit us on the break, we could be knocked out in 2 competitions within a week if Klopp doesn't take the fa cup seriously. Chelsea are struggling under Frank, please Klopp play a full strength side, let them get that loss out of their system and let us continue fighting on all fronts. Take Ox and Lovren out, bring Lallana and Matip in and keep the rest and let's go to the next round. Since we lost today, just win the league and rest players and play kids for the dead fixtures to keep them fresh for the cups.

So you want our first team players to play 4 games in 12 days, how fit will they be according to you? Now if you want to prioritize the FA cup over CL, then yes, it will make sense taking the risk of injuries and tiredness.

Worked wonders over the Christmas period when we had a game every 3 days, team is rusty because of the winter break so let them play to get fitter, we can tinker a bit so minamino and Origi can play some games but keep the core strong, no reserves until we see up the league.

Don’t care about the cups. League is the priority. If we play our full team against Chelsea then fair enough but neither are a priority.

Reasons for playing the first 11 against Chelsea:
- give ourselves best chance to get the defeat out of our system and restore positivity quickly.
- we then have 3 full days to prepare for Bournemouth.
- giving our players a week to prepare for games doesn't seem to help them. On the contrary it seems to have the opposite effect.

Reasons for NOT playing first 11 team against Chelsea:
- We have to play Bournemouth and Atletico next week and need to manage player game time.
- We need to keep bench players 'in the groove' as well in case we need them next week.
- Sometimes we need to surprise the opposition. Give them a team line-up and formation that they don't expect. e.g. Origi has been very unlucky. After his contributions last season he deserved to start games and have the opportunity to show what he can do. Would have given us options too... but our results have meant that there was no need to play him.

Chelsea won't play full strength against us but will still play a strong looking side on Tuesday.

If we play some sort of hybrid team we will come unstuck so we should go with the first team and get this defeat out of our system. Just don't include Lovren.

League is won. Priority now should be CL & FA Cup

Not yet it ain’t!

What we don't want is Watford to be the start of a losing run we need it to be a blip for that reason I think klopp will play a weakened team

The title is almost there but we don't want any excitiment given city are coming to form

Even if it is, It does not matter that much. League is won barring Coronvirus or the start of world war 3. Pointless even debating it.

The losing streak is over, the FA cup is a possibility we could look at.