Liverpool Football Club - It is time to end the 30 year wait

[Jamesc]

Keep the EPL open for 2 more games and see how.

If Pool declared winner the jealous Utd fans will

say we won only because of Corona and we were lucky.

 

[Shorty]

the should hv postponed all ucl games earlier. 

[Lala81]

Aubameyang tested + also.

[Shorty]

jialat. i tink arsenal n chelsea team all must go test. 

[Mrmilktooth]

Must be they go party too much in London. NB. They award champion first to us then postpone rest. U don’t CB FA!!! Grow some balls 

[Spring]

3 hours ago, Lala81 said:

Aubameyang tested + also.

U sure? So far it's only Arteta, Hudson Odoi and possibly 3 unnamed Leicester players.

[Beregond]

On 3/12/2020 at 10:41 AM, Fooblack said:

no doubt Adrian has served us well in the early part of the season while Alisson was out. those were mainly games in the EPL which Pool tends to dominate. 

In these UCL tie where the margins are so tight and one ineffective kick from the GK will mean the goal conceded in the next 5 seconds, Adrian is clearly not the man who can hold his nerves. The 2nd goal is indicative of his confidence being shot... it should be saved any other day . 

Pang chance, adrian won u all the super cup with pen save leh.

a few months u all forgot liao.

no matter how good alisson is , if pool left him on the bench for a few months and suddenly throw him into a big game, he will make mistake also..

[Lala81]

39 minutes ago, Spring said:

U sure? So far it's only Arteta, Hudson Odoi and possibly 3 unnamed Leicester players.

Lol this was from my arsenal friends daily mail article. I didn't check lol.

[Lala81]

6 minutes ago, Lala81 said:

Lol this was from my arsenal friends daily mail article. I didn't check lol.

Eh actually it was a screenshot of sky sports news... 

[AndrewLee72]

Everton players oso suspected Corona-ed. Siao liao.

[Akula]

EPL suspended till 3 April! Means we won’t have the bragging rights to claim won it in March (if we do win the next 2 games).

UCL & UEL also suspended!

[Mrmilktooth]

3 minutes ago, Akula said:

EPL suspended till 3 April! Means we won’t have the bragging rights to claim won it in March (if we do win the next 2 games).

UCL & UEL also suspended!

If win next 2 games after resume schedule. Technically still the fastest lolol. No escape!!! The title is coming to Anfield!!!!!

[Akula]

15 minutes ago, Mrmilktooth said:

If win next 2 games after resume schedule. Technically still the fastest lolol. No escape!!! The title is coming to Anfield!!!!!

Might Not need. We face ManC (Away) on 5th April!

[Akula]

Got this off the web. Sort of sums up all the various considerations and permutations ;

 

Liverpool are still likely to be crowned Premier League champions, even if the coronavirus crisis causes the season to be abandoned amid mounting fears it would be ­ impossible to complete it this summer.

As revealed by Telegraph Sport last month, there is no regulation governing what happens if the 2019-20 campaign is curtailed. But a senior club executive revealed on Friday night that there was little ­opposition to awarding Jurgen Klopp’s men their first English title for 30 years following what threatened to be the longest suspension of the professional game since the Second World War.

Leaders Liverpool are 25 points clear of second-placed Manchester City and two more victories for the Anfield club will give them the title. Such is the gap that there is no appetite among their rivals to deny them the crown.

The coronavirus hiatus is in danger of plunging football in England into anarchy, with governing bodies and clubs desperately trying to devise ways to avoid the unprecedented meltdown that could ensue if Government projections over the spread of the deadly disease prove correct.

On a day when more sport fell by the wayside, including the London Marathon, the Masters, Wales’s Six Nations match with Scotland, England’s cricket tour of Sri Lanka, the start of the Formula One season, and the Giro d’Italia, one senior figure at a Premier League team told Telegraph Sport: “There is so much more at stake. There is a focus on whether Liverpool will be champions, but that will be an irrelevance in the scheme of things. There is an intent we will recommence, but will that be possible?”

The Premier League had devised a plan in which the season would finish on schedule provided it resumed on April 3. That was the date to which it, the English Football League and Football Association agreed to suspend the men’s and women’s professional game following crisis talks on Friday. But with the virus forcing seven Premier League clubs yesterday to put players into isolation and the disease not forecast to peak until May or June, an April resumption appeared optimistic in the extreme.

FA chairman Greg Clarke told Premier League clubs it was not “feasible” to expect their remaining matches to be played, while another senior figure told Telegraph Sport: “You tell me whether you think there’s the remotest possibility that anything in the science is going to tell us that it’s going to be safer to play on April 3 than now.”

This summer’s European Championship is expected to be postponed at an emergency meeting of European football stakeholders on Tuesday in order to allow the club season to continue into June and July – and potentially even beyond.

The same senior figure raised the prospect of the calendar being ­redrawn to dovetail with the next World Cup in Qatar, the switch of which to the winter of 2022 had ­already been accommodated by the game.

“One scenario could be that you just work backwards from it and you say, ‘Why don’t we have a calendar season in 2022 and a calendar season in 2021 and we play the rest of this season in October?’” he said.

But many players will be out of contract on June 30 and will also have lost match fitness, raising major questions about the integrity of competitions.

Calling a halt to the season would be no less chaotic. That has resulted in discussions taking place inside some Premier League teams over proposals that could be put forward if the season could not be played to a conclusion. One would be to void the season, but there is an acceptance that would cause many of its own problems with Liverpool so close to winning the ­title.

There would also be the issues of relegation and promotion from the Championship, together with Champions League qualification, which carry huge financial implications for the clubs involved.

One proposal that could be made would be for the top two in the Championship, currently Leeds and West Brom, to be promoted and for 22 teams to compete in next season’s Premier League. The EFL Cup would be postponed for one year to allow extra space in the fixture list and five clubs, instead of three, would be relegated at the end of the season.

One suggestion regarding Champions League qualification would be to allow the teams who qualified for this season’s tournament to keep their places next season and then ­enter any additional sides currently in qualification positions into an ­expanded qualifying phase.

That would mean third-placed Leicester going into a qualifying round for the Champions League, with Liverpool, Manchester City – subject to the Court of Arbitration for Sport hearing – Chelsea and Tottenham holding on to their places in the tournament. But Manchester United, Wolves and Sheffield United, who are all above seventh-placed Spurs, would no doubt object to this.

Christian Purslow, the Aston Villa chief executive, attended Friday's emergency meeting of the  Premier League. Asked if he thought the current season will be completed, he ­replied: “We have no idea. Let’s hope so.”

Failure to do so would in turn jeopardise billions of pounds in television money, with Premier League chief executive Richard Masters having already stressed to clubs in an email on Thursday night that “contractual commitments” needed to be taken into consideration.

As revealed by Telegraph Sport, it would also risk sending EFL clubs – who depend on match-day ­revenue – out of business. That might be one reason why the non-League game did not follow the lead of its professional counterpart yesterday by calling off matches.

[Akula]

Following their win at Anfield, Atletico Madrid have addressed Liverpool on Twitter with a message which is nothing but pure class.

"It was an honour to face such an exceptional side at a legendary stadium, LFC," the tweet read.

"The atmosphere at Anfield was incredible. Best of luck in the Premier League."

I would think that desperate the their antics, they had a game plan, stuck to it and aid by some clinical finishing and good goalkeeping (both theirs, not ours), prevailed over us. To be able to beat us both home and away is no mean feat.

[BenTong]

1 hour ago, Akula said:

Got this off the web. Sort of sums up all the various considerations and permutations ;

 

Liverpool are still likely to be crowned Premier League champions, even if the coronavirus crisis causes the season to be abandoned amid mounting fears it would be ­ impossible to complete it this summer.

As revealed by Telegraph Sport last month, there is no regulation governing what happens if the 2019-20 campaign is curtailed. But a senior club executive revealed on Friday night that there was little ­opposition to awarding Jurgen Klopp’s men their first English title for 30 years following what threatened to be the longest suspension of the professional game since the Second World War.

Leaders Liverpool are 25 points clear of second-placed Manchester City and two more victories for the Anfield club will give them the title. Such is the gap that there is no appetite among their rivals to deny them the crown.

The coronavirus hiatus is in danger of plunging football in England into anarchy, with governing bodies and clubs desperately trying to devise ways to avoid the unprecedented meltdown that could ensue if Government projections over the spread of the deadly disease prove correct.

On a day when more sport fell by the wayside, including the London Marathon, the Masters, Wales’s Six Nations match with Scotland, England’s cricket tour of Sri Lanka, the start of the Formula One season, and the Giro d’Italia, one senior figure at a Premier League team told Telegraph Sport: “There is so much more at stake. There is a focus on whether Liverpool will be champions, but that will be an irrelevance in the scheme of things. There is an intent we will recommence, but will that be possible?”

The Premier League had devised a plan in which the season would finish on schedule provided it resumed on April 3. That was the date to which it, the English Football League and Football Association agreed to suspend the men’s and women’s professional game following crisis talks on Friday. But with the virus forcing seven Premier League clubs yesterday to put players into isolation and the disease not forecast to peak until May or June, an April resumption appeared optimistic in the extreme.

FA chairman Greg Clarke told Premier League clubs it was not “feasible” to expect their remaining matches to be played, while another senior figure told Telegraph Sport: “You tell me whether you think there’s the remotest possibility that anything in the science is going to tell us that it’s going to be safer to play on April 3 than now.”

This summer’s European Championship is expected to be postponed at an emergency meeting of European football stakeholders on Tuesday in order to allow the club season to continue into June and July – and potentially even beyond.

The same senior figure raised the prospect of the calendar being ­redrawn to dovetail with the next World Cup in Qatar, the switch of which to the winter of 2022 had ­already been accommodated by the game.

“One scenario could be that you just work backwards from it and you say, ‘Why don’t we have a calendar season in 2022 and a calendar season in 2021 and we play the rest of this season in October?’” he said.

But many players will be out of contract on June 30 and will also have lost match fitness, raising major questions about the integrity of competitions.

Calling a halt to the season would be no less chaotic. That has resulted in discussions taking place inside some Premier League teams over proposals that could be put forward if the season could not be played to a conclusion. One would be to void the season, but there is an acceptance that would cause many of its own problems with Liverpool so close to winning the ­title.

There would also be the issues of relegation and promotion from the Championship, together with Champions League qualification, which carry huge financial implications for the clubs involved.

One proposal that could be made would be for the top two in the Championship, currently Leeds and West Brom, to be promoted and for 22 teams to compete in next season’s Premier League. The EFL Cup would be postponed for one year to allow extra space in the fixture list and five clubs, instead of three, would be relegated at the end of the season.

One suggestion regarding Champions League qualification would be to allow the teams who qualified for this season’s tournament to keep their places next season and then ­enter any additional sides currently in qualification positions into an ­expanded qualifying phase.

That would mean third-placed Leicester going into a qualifying round for the Champions League, with Liverpool, Manchester City – subject to the Court of Arbitration for Sport hearing – Chelsea and Tottenham holding on to their places in the tournament. But Manchester United, Wolves and Sheffield United, who are all above seventh-placed Spurs, would no doubt object to this.

Christian Purslow, the Aston Villa chief executive, attended Friday's emergency meeting of the  Premier League. Asked if he thought the current season will be completed, he ­replied: “We have no idea. Let’s hope so.”

Failure to do so would in turn jeopardise billions of pounds in television money, with Premier League chief executive Richard Masters having already stressed to clubs in an email on Thursday night that “contractual commitments” needed to be taken into consideration.

As revealed by Telegraph Sport, it would also risk sending EFL clubs – who depend on match-day ­revenue – out of business. That might be one reason why the non-League game did not follow the lead of its professional counterpart yesterday by calling off matches.

No reason for Premier league  to cancel. Matches can be played in empty stadiums. Teams can use their subs or the under 23 players or their academy players. 
 

after all we the world pay bloody expensive subs .. they are professional entertainers.. 

 

singtel I want I refund of my subs!!

 

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[Raymondism]

On 3/12/2020 at 4:13 PM, Xers007 said:

Pool is always in attacking mode even if leading the game, they will still try to break forward. For many other teams they will play the ball amongest the defenders and keeper to keep procession and wait for counter attack chances instead of trying to play all the ball foward and risk losing the ball. Maybe its klopp's style.

Agree. Klopp will always prefer to attack. I guess its about game management. Like we discuss earlier on how Klopp will start... most of us felt that Klopp will attack with 4-3-3 and after that transit to a 4-2-3-1 once we are leading...  or just move Firminho and Mane deeper into christmas tree formation 4-3-2-1. Guess if Klopp made the changes to slow down the game, we might do better to prevent conceding the first goal. Maybe he did not have time and felt that its too early to do so. But we will never know now. Its not entirely Adrian's fault as the ball went to midfield and our players were probably tired and did not respond in time.

[Raymondism]

On 3/13/2020 at 8:20 AM, Othello said:

Yeah... Just end it now and declare the Champions 

UCL also in peril

They can still do coin toss to play out all the games... if they do that, we have good chance to win 2 more games out of remaining ones... not sure if they will do that though