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Not having your first choice goalkeeper in goal for this fixture is always going to be a concern, especially away from home, but I was wondering if the Covid pandemic might actually help us ... hear me out grin

Imagine how loud Goodison would be with fans in there! Imagine how much stick the club's No.2 would get throughout the game?

Do I have a point or am I clutching out of desperation and hope

MATCH FACTS

Head-to-head

Liverpool are on a club record run of 22 unbeaten matches in all competitions versus Everton (W11, D11).
Everton are winless in the 19 Premier League meetings since their 2-0 home victory in October 2010 (D11, L8).
Seven of the past eight league derbies at Goodison Park have ended in draws. Liverpool won the other match.
The last three derbies hosted by Everton have finished goalless.
Everton are without a home league goal against their Merseyside neighbours in six hours and 45 minutes.

Everton

This is the first Merseyside league derby with Everton starting top of the table since September 1989.
Everton are looking to win their opening five league games for the first time since 1938-39. They beat reigning top-flight champions Arsenal in their fifth match that season.
The Toffees have won their opening seven games in all competitions for the first time since 1894-95.
Everton could win five league matches in a row for the first time since a run of seven from March to April 2014.
A league-high 13 goals have been scored in just two games at Goodison Park this term.
They have scored in 11 of their past 12 home league games - June's goalless draw with Liverpool was the exception.
Dominic Calvert-Lewin has scored nine goals in six appearances for Everton in all competitions this season. No player in Europe's elite five divisions has scored more.
Calvert-Lewin could become the first Everton player to score in his opening five league games since Tommy Lawton in 1938-39.
James Rodriguez has contributed to six goals in his five games in all competitions. He has three goals and three assists.
Teams managed by Carlo Ancelotti have kept a clean sheet in five of their six competitive home matches against Liverpool (W4, D1, L1).

Liverpool

Liverpool have lost four of their past eight away league games, as many as in their previous 46 away fixtures.
The Reds could suffer consecutive league defeats for the first time since September 2015.
Liverpool's four league losses in 2020 are as many as they suffered in 2018 and 2019 combined.
The last time the Reds had conceded 11 goals after four fixtures was back in 1937-38.
Liverpool have conceded 23 goals since June's Premier League resumption. Only Crystal Palace (25) and Brighton (24) have let in more over this period.
Jurgen Klopp's side have conceded a league-high seven first-half goals.
Their past six league matches have produced 34 goals.
Mohamed Salah has scored 99 goals in 158 games for Liverpool in all competitions and is looking to become the 17th player to reach a century of goals for the club.
Adrian has made five errors directly leading to opposition goals in his 21 matches for Liverpool in all competitions.
Klopp is unbeaten in his 11 Merseyside derbies as Liverpool manager in all competitions (W7, D4).

We need to bounce back. Gomez should be dropped and Matip comes back in or Fabinho. In midfield Henderson should come back with Thiago and Wijanldum. Up front the front 3 will start as usual but me personally I would play Jota ahead of Firmino as he has been poor lately, Jota left, Mane right, Salah through the middle, we may need to tweak the formation but we probably need to anyway. Did I mention we need to bounce back?

It is an advantage for Liverpool with no crowds Goodison would exploit Adrian mercilessly. But I fancy us to get something tomorrow

I'd drop Gomez for this game, he's not been up to scratch and both he and TAA got mercilessly exploited by Aston Villa. Ancelotti will try to exploit our exhuberant high line, just like Villa did.

As long as they are all good to go:

Adrian

TAA Fabinho VVD Robbo

Hendo Thiago Wij

Salah Bobby Mane

They need to bounce back from that Villa mauling and anything other than 3 points is failure.

Over to somebody else to incorporate the words "bounce back" and "mercilessly" and now "exhuberant"!

Liverpool handed major selection boost ahead of Merseyside derby as Henderson and Firmino return

Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp has welcomed back a host of players to Melwood after international duty.

By Ian Doyle Chief Liverpool writer

Jurgen Klopp has been given a huge Merseyside derby boost after the majority of his Liverpool players reported back for training after international duty.

Roberto Firmino and Fabinho, who were with Brazil for their World Cup qualifying win in Peru in the early hours of Wednesday morning, joined in the session at Melwood on Thursday afternoon.

Naby Keita was the only notable fresh absentee from the session as Liverpool ramped up their preparations for Saturday's visit to Premier League leaders Everton.

Jordan Henderson, who came off the bench for England in their UEFA Nations League defeat at home to Denmark on Wednesday night, took part in the session along with Joe Gomez and Trent Alexander-Arnold, who were unused substitutes at Wembley.

Xherdan Shaqiri, Takumi Minamino, Curtis Jones, Divock Origi and Andy Robertson were involved, while Dutch duo Gini Wijnaldum and Virgil van Dijk and Portuguese forward Diogo Jota were also present.

The likes of Sadio Mane, Thiago Alcantara, Mohamed Salah, Joel Matip, James Milner and Adrian had already been working at Melwood this week having not been on international duty the past fortnight.

Alisson Becker, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Kostas Tsimikas continue to recover from their respective injury issues.

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/fo...thiago-19112268

Time for the team to show who is the champion. I am always nervous playing Ancelotti teams. He is a great manager.

Id go .....

------ Adrian

TAA Matip VVD Robbo

Henderson Thiago Fab

Mane Salah Jota


I think Klopp will go .....


------ Adrian

TAA Gomez VVD Robbo

Henderson Fab Milner

Salah Firmino Mane

I hope he goes for your first selection.. Also happy for Bobby to start though. That's a monster midfield though. Huge battle in there today.

As I've said, it's better we got mauled and embarassed in one game and our flaws exposed than the wheels slowly falling off. It's obvious to everyone where we were exposed so Klopp will know what teams will hope to do.