They usually rest the South American players after international breaks because they tend to arrive much later than the others.

Hot take; I'd like to see them start Chiesa on the right and give Mo 60+ minutes off. I'd also consider giving VVD a half or so off as well. It won't happen, but I'd think about it, especially in Salah's case. Outside of Maca I think most of the starters will play, and I expect to see Bradley back at RB. He played fully for Northern Ireland over the international break.

I agree with you. One of the benefits of a good performance against a bottom half team is that you can rest some of your important players in the second half.

There will be no letup in the PL this year. Arsenal is better than last year and is very deep. They won't drop as many easy points.

Yeah the top half of the league is a freaking gauntlet.

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Debut of the 3rd kit. No changes to the starting lineup. Szoboszlai retains his position at RB but Frimpong makes the bench. The Isak debut will have to wait as he doesn't even make the bench

Szoboszlai EPL team of the season at RB incoming.

I'm stunned he's at RB, especially with Curtis being out.

Disgusting stuff from Kerkez. Good lord man.

Gakpo is the anti-low block breaker

Time to put in Robbo

Kerkez is a head case so far.

Here comes Robo. Pretty crazy change tbh but needed to happen. You can't trust him the way this is playing out.

Is stopped into the soccer shop yesterday to look at the red shirts (they're perfect). The green shirts are nice. Material is weird. Smooth and stretchy but not clingy.

For sure. A second yellow was coming any moment. He was getting smoked everywhere. Left for a minute and saw Robbo did come in. Plus he can help more getting some balls into this gosh awful low block

We're still really struggling to get the ball to the guys who need it in Salah, Wirtz and Ekitike.

I don't think we utilize width well at all either. Gakpo cuts in, Salah cuts in, Kerkez is a head case, and Szbo is a midfielder.

Just so bad at breaking a low block for what seems forever. Virtually zero chances for anything. And usual sloppiness out of an international break. Wirtz just awful again.

Just doesn't feel like Wirtz knows what to do when he is pressured. He needs to use his change of direction to create space for himself. He tries to ward off the defender and gets eaten up.

I want him on the ball more than he is. We're using him as a shadow striker and I just don't think that's his greatest asset.

Maca off. Not good.

Already love what I'm seeing from Bradley. He's more purposeful in his attacks.

There's absolutely zero space. None.

Oof my dude. You can't do that

Why on earth would that guy do that? That's so poor.

On one hand I'll tip my hat to Burnley for their structure and discipline, but on the other that was barely football. Really really hard watch.

Three points is three points. Take it and move on.

I think we've got a problem on the left side. Not only does Kerkez lose his cool too often, but Gakpo is a ball stopper and not creative in any way. I think Rio needs a little more run on that side.

In the 91st minute my wife dropped a full quart of yogurt that splattered everywhere. Paused the game and Helped her clean up. Saw a text on my watch from my LFC text group that I read as "so so sucky". Assumed we drew or burnley found a winner. Restarted the game and we get the penalty. Assumed Mo missed. Mo nails it and assumed Burnelynhad a 96' winner.

That wasn't pretty but kept firing away at the box and crazy **** happens eventually.

Liverpool had an XG of almost 2.50 and Burnley I think had 0.13.

Slot's general philosophy is for us to retain possession and really dominate the opposition. These types of teams really test this strategy. We were simply too happy to retain the ball without taking appropriate risks. In the few times that Burnley did attack we didn't really push our transitions well and just recycled the ball. A confounding issue is that our wings aren't really explosive. Mo and Cody are smart, technical player but it was very telling that the introductions of Rio and Bradley completely changed the game. I know Rio is only a kid, but he has to play more. He gives our team a dynamic edge that really drives us forward.

If Slot is worried about overexposing Rio, then he has to move Wirtz out to the left wing. He isn't getting much room in the middle of the park which is limiting his impact. We simply have too many players who all want to operate in the left inside channel. Hugo sits in the channel, Wirtz likes to run into it, Cody's main goal is to cut back into it and Macca likes to carry the ball into it....they are all getting in each other's way. We need one of those players to get wider to unclog that space. I think Flo would benefit from the space on that wing despite his desire to play more centrally.

Had to win that game to punish Burnley for parking the bus that hard in week 4. All Liverpool have shown in the first 3 games is that they give up counter attack goals for fun, and Burnley play for a point from the opening kickoff. Ridiculous.

78 completed passes. Can't get over the fact that they completed less than a pass per minute of play time.

Kash Patel rocking a LFC tie at his hearing today