Chillisawss

u/Chillisawss@lemmy.world
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I think we will learn very little from this game. There will be two XIs, switching at half time, with those XIs as units not representative of Klopp's future plans.

Perhaps we will get some insight with Nunuz playing at 9 instead of LW, but likely that will be because Gakpo plays as 9 in the other half. Maybe some youngsters featuring will provide insight into pecking order. Jones and Elliott may not feature given they are just back after u21s.

All that said, I can't wait.

I feel VVD starting to believe his own hype too much. Maybe the injury, wanting to be at world cup also, but he was hardly ever dribbled past before last season. I'd go with Trent, long runway and could drive him to the next level.

This makes me excited. Perhaps I'm misremembering or rose tinted glasses for the moment, but I feel like previous pre seasons have been dribs and drabs of returns then fielding lots of youth in the pre season games early on. This year should be a couple of solid 11s with some youth mixed in. Big names, big time players already back training together on day 3.

ASM at times looks all flair and limited end result. He'll score you a worldy now and then. Barnes outscored him 13 to 1 last year albeit with ~50% more matches. Assists 5-1 in favour of ASM.

In 21/22 they played a similar number of matches (35 to 32 in favour of ASM) and Barnes outscored (6-5) and outassisted (10-5).

Barnes also homegrown.