Saturday\u2019s game at Arsenal was probably our best away performance of the season \u2013 but the fact is we came away on the wrong side of a 3-0 defeat and our away form needs sorting out. At the Stadium of Light, we\u2019re a different proposition, and under the lights we\u2019ll be hoping to continue that good run of home form.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s going to be a difficult game tonight, of course, for all of Liverpool\u2019s struggles this season, they\u2019ve got quality individuals; however, on paper, their away form suggests we should be getting something from this game. There were lots of good performances on Saturday, so barring injuries and fitness concerns, I don\u2019t envisage many changes \u2013 in fact, just one\u2026<\/p>\n
Roefs couldn\u2019t do much with any of the Arsenal goals on Saturday, and will be in goal tonight.<\/p>\n
Defence: Nordi Mukiele, Dan Ballard, Omar Alderete, Reinildo<\/p>\n
Alderete and Mukiele both conceded possession needlessly in the build-up for Arsenal\u2019s first two goals, while Reinildo should have done better with the third. Regardless, this back four is our strongest, and Le Bris is a manager who shows faith in players, so no changes here.<\/p>\n
Midfield: Trai Hume, Noah Sadiki, Habib Diarra, Enzo Le Fee, Nilson Angulo<\/p>\n
We\u2019ll go with the same formation we played at Arsenal, and which worked at Anfield before Christmas, too, with Hume on the right but dropping in to enable Mukiele to overlap. With Xhaka\u2019s continued absence, Sadiki, Diarra, and Le Fee will play centrally \u2013 and I think we\u2019ll see a full debut for Nilson Angulo. With Liverpool\u2019s well-documented fullback troubles, I reckon Le Bris might throw a wildcard in, and Angulo is it.<\/p>\n
Brobbey will continue up front, and we need to make sure we use him better than we did in the first half at Arsenal. He\u2019s brilliant at getting the ball into his feet, holding it up, and players in and around him, and he\u2019s going to be massively important as we relieve pressure and look to build attacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saturday\u2019s game at Arsenal was probably our best away performance of the season \u2013 but the fact is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419663,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,43782,6884,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-419662","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-match-previews","10":"tag-opinion","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}