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City, Liverpool and Chelsea all have to play 8 games in April. Big test for all 3 teams.
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Agreed Nine.
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Huge month nine mate
Exciting stuff
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Not confirmed as of yet but both cup semi-finals are ‘penciled in’ for the 16th April, Saturday. Ideally from an LFC POV, that would work better as we play Man United at home on the following Tuesday.
The interesting thing about this is surely, we can’t have 2 Semi’s at Wembley played on the same day. One would have to be played on a Sunday for the sake of practicalities and logistics.
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The fixtures for Chelsea, liveroool and city are just crazy lads. Full squads will be needed. Itβs far to hard to split the 3 games in one off games. Far to hard to call who will win but I fancy city to finish the strongest and handle injuries etc better as they have the best squad.
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I’m sure both Semi Finals will be played at Wembley I suspect the City v Liverpool game will go ahead on the Saturday.
The rail problems over the weekend are more than unfortunate but Talksport claim that will only affect a total of 15,000 fans who planned to travel by Train. It’s not ideal but not insurmountable with extra Coaches and travelling by Car.
I get that playing the Semi Finals at Wembley is not ideal for fans in the North this subject even without that weekends rail problems has been discussed previously but Wembley is the National Stadium it still has to be paid for and the plan was always to play FA Cup Semi Finals at Wembley as they have been since the new Wembley was opened in 2007.
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Get what your saying nine but final should only ever be played at Wembley
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Sean, I don’t disagree Sean but it’s not going to happen it’s the FA’s own Cup and they need to recoup as much as they can towards the cost of rebuilding the new Wembley.
The argument that Wembley should only stage the Final has been put forward since 2007 but the FA won’t give way on Wembley being used for both Semi Finals every season
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I think it’s just the chosen day/dates itself that maybe the FA could have given more thought and planned better. Of course, the teams affected are the ones still in the CL.
Limited transport services causes stress. Coach and car realistically is the appropriate option. Personally, the venue for a semi should be somewhere central and not far away considering the 2 teams affected are located in the north.
Spirit Of Shankly supposedly have opposed to all this and want the tie played at Old Trafford.
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I’ve read Wembley cost 757 million for a rebuild. Something that should be finally paid off by 2024. I just find this astonishing. It would probably explain some of the meaningless International friendlies. Did we need one this week for example?
Fixtures for a small handful of teams feel compressed almost without any wriggle room.
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I really think City’s squad depth will pay off over April and Liverpool’s lack of (up front in particular) could cost them.
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Nil,it’s an international break for two weeks for everyone that’s got nothing to do with Wembley and the need for revenues.
Any Club involved in all competitions at this stage of the season will always have a heavy fixture schedule.
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I read about numerous times about City’s depth of the squad, but I compared them yesterday side by side. Liverpool actually have 30 first team players and Man City with slightly less at 28.
Whilst I see examples of Jesus, Sterling and Mahrez ready to come off the bench, we ourselves have that luxury. And this with Salah if he’s unable to feature. Firmino can still be dangerous away from home. Jota is been firing consistently, Mane back to top form, and Tiago has gained a good grip of midfield. Plus we still have back experience in Milner. The one position at question mark is Trent’s, at right back.
It’s worth taking note of the below table just how far Liverpool were behind Man City, 12 points on the 10th February. It had taken up to the 16th of March to reduce the gap to just 1 point. For me as biased as I’ll be, that’s remarkable.
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Nine, I’d have to disagree with you mate.
Personally, at this point of time, I don’t think we should have had a Friendly.
Regarding the revenue, big mistake in hindsight. From the outsider POV, looks like an awful set up designed more to entice corporates than an actual football fan.
Anyway, that’s another talking point. The 2 northern based clubs have agreed and come forward requesting to the FA to change the location. I believe that makes sense practically given the timing of Easter and lack of accessible public transportation.
Not to mention too the current climate of high fuel costs. Wembley in essence should only showcase an actual final and not the semis in my view.
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Nil, you suggested that the next couple of England games was just to create revenue to help pay for Wembley but the international breaks are written into the football calendar by FIFA every nation is playing games during this break those not participating in play offs are all playing friendlies.
Only 8 months until the World Cup Finals that has to be prepared for.
Liverpool wouldn’t start a PL campaign without a series of friendlies to prepare for it.
“Wembley in essence should only showcase an actual final and not the semis in my view.”
I don’t disagree with that Nil but the fact is the FA have said from the outset that FA Cup Semi Finals will all be played at Wembley and currently I can’t see that changing and I fully expect City v Liverpool to be staged at Wembley but we’ll see.
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I’m not sure there’s too much difference between the the Liverpool and City squads currently City might have a slight edge in a couple of areas but up front Liverpool now look the strongest particularly after the signing of Diaz.
It’s nip and tuck between now and the end of the season and difficult to predict a winner.
I think the table above with a 12 point advantage to City painted a slightly false picture because Liverpool had 2 games in hand then which if they won and to their credit they did would reduce the gap to 6 points City then inexplicably slipped up by losing to Spurs and drawing with Palace when they should have taken 4 points instead of 1 which has reduced their lead to 1 point.
City remain favourite due to their 1 point difference, the City v Liverpool game being at the Etihad and the fact that they have the easier run in.
Personally right now I wouldn’t feel confident putting my 50p on either of them!
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SkyBet PL Title Winners 2021/2022 23/03
Manchester City
8/15
Liverpool
6/4Suprised the odds aren’t a tad closer?
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Liverpool were 8 points behind I think after winning the two Hanes in hand
City dropped points to Southampton, palace and spurs and we have won every game in that period
I would fancy is if we had city at home but itβs away and a draw will do them. I still maintain we need to win every game to win the league and i highly doubt that will happen. City are in control .
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Sean, we didn’t trip up mate. That’s the significance of this. We have had a great run since in the league since the 2-2 draw V Chelsea.
We may lose to Man City that could deflate us. And if that happens, the huge test will be making sure we bounce back quickly.
Any game we lose, we just got to dust ourselves down and be ready for the next game while we are still able to fight for these competitions.
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The concern for me from a Liverpool perspective is if we have to bring in someone else outside the usual 5 strikers to that front 3. As we saw at the weekend, it all suddenly looks a bit makeshift. Liverpool are going to have to keep that front 5 fit to be constantly available for a position in the front 3. If they are able to do that it can perhaps be more effective than City. But then City have a more robust interchangeable system, even if it may not be quite as effective. So Liverpools front 5 players being fit and available will be a key factor in the race.
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