Premier League Match Day 3 - Brighton - Post Match

The 2nd home game of the season ended in a 1-0 win for the reds, thanks to Salah's strike. This is one of those games that in previous season's we could have dropped points in. We weren't at our best but thankfully held on for the 3 points. Capitalising on City's draw to Wolves to bring us to the top of the league, taking 9 points from 9 and yet to concede a goal. The difference this time out to the fact of having a top class goalkeeper and centre back. Alisson making a superb save in the 88th minute was a match winner. VVD's leadership and quality is clearly helping Gomez progress and that partnership continues to blossom. As for the full-backs, Robbo could well have been man of the match with some brilliant runs down the wing and dangerous ball into the box which Firmino was unlucky not to score from early on. Yet again though it was Milner's will to close down and win the ball back which led to start of the built up play to the goal, Salah striking beautifully to score his 29th goal in 29 games at Anfield. Thankfully Anfield is becoming a bit of a fortress for us, unbeaten now in 23 games, having not conceded a goal since February at home an unbelievable record that I hope I haven't just jinxed! It's early days but we should be optimistic that we can now pull results out of the bag when not at our best and keep the pressure on City when they drop points. Next up we're away to Leicester on of our so called bogey teams, however the man that always seems to score against us, Jamie Vardy is suspended so hopefully we can do the business yet again.

YNWA

TEAM NEWS UPDATE!!! Premier League Match Day 2 - Crystal Palace

Qucik update on the below post. With 1 hour to go until kick-off it looks like my first predictions were wrong and Klopp has decided to stick with the same starting 11 as opening day. With an 8 day break between games it's probably of no real surprise. Mignolet makes the bench with it looking like Karius heading for the exit having agreed terms for a TWO-year loan spell at Turkish side Besiktas. Full side for tonight's game below.

Image taken from LiverpoolFC official Instagram page.

Premier League Match Day 2 - Crystal Palace

Here we are then about 2 hours out from our first Monday night clash of the new season and I reckon it'll be a tough one away to Crystal Palace at Selhurst Park. Match 2 and it's already a must win one, if we want to keep up with City after their empathic 6-1 win over Huddersfield yesterday. We won well against West Ham on opening day but I do feel Palace may be a little harder to break down. Lets get straight into the possible line up. My thoughts are that Klopp may make one or two changes to what we seen last time out. We could be surprised to see Clyne slot in at right back, he had a great pre-season and this could be a good game to continue to keep some match fitness especially with Trent not having as much of a pre-season due to the World Cup. I do think Trent will be the number 1 choice in that position this season. His disruption is 2nd to none and he's really grown defensively in the last 12 months, long may it continue. Apart from Clyne coming in, I think the remainder of the back 5 will remain in place, obviously Alisson in goal, Robbo at left back and perhaps what may be a growing partnership of Gomez and Virgil at centre-back. The nice headache of Klopp is with which midfield trio will start, I feel Keita is a certainty he's such a dynamic, creative player and I can't wait to see him play more. I also think it would be hard to leave Mr.Reliable James Milner out of the team, what a work horse he is, fighting for every ball. That leaves one place which I think will go to Hendo, despite Gini playing brilliantly against West Ham, I think Klopp will go with his Captain to get some game time under his belt after his World Cup return. Up top picks it's self with the on fire trio of Salah, Mane and Firmino to bang in the goals. Which still leaves the powerful Shaqiri to come of the bench and the man with renewed form, Sturridge as exciting prospects to come on should we need them. With hope of keeping Benteke and Zaha at bay I think we should win by at least 2 goals to nil. I hope I'm right!

YNWA,

Emma

Introduction

So first article of my new blog - The Red & Green: Liverpool and Irish.

A quick intro before getting into the my thoughts on the Crystal Place match tonight. This will be a little bit of a passion project for me. First and foremost, I'm a massive Liverpool FC fan and I'm Irish, which explains the name of this blog. The plan is to put my passion into something and to write some articles and opinions about Liverpool football club and live in hope that this will be a season to remember. No matter what happens I'm sure it will be an exciting one. My other love is radio and also my day job so I plan on turning this into a podcast quite soon, stay tuned for more info on that. If you've any comments or what to get involved please free to get in touch. This is something I've wanted to do for quite awhile now, but for one reason or another I've kept putting it off. With a rare day off work today I decided to get writing and at least put this first blog out there. So ahead of our 2nd match of the season here it is. The Red & Green: Liverpool and Irish. I hope you enjoy my thoughts and the season ahead. 

YNWA,

Emma










Me and Stevie a few years ago.