Advantage Liverpool as Ibe downs Stoke in League Cup

“We were really serious in analysing”. We don’t train, we only recover, that is the situation now? Now we have to take the next chance, which is against Stoke.

“We need to get back into the tie and see where it takes us”.

The well known Stoke based brand has announced it has a live stream of the game available for punters and fans to watch through their website. We could say: ‘White flag, sorry, no [strong] team for Stoke next week, we play somebody else against Stoke and somebody else against Exeter.’ That’s not possible. The most frustrating of those injuries is Daniel Sturridge, who suffered yet another setback in training and is still not close to match fitness.

He said that he accepted as much of the blame for recent below-par performances.

“I don’t think it’s important to get a lead”, Walters said. “That’s how I am”.

Any club in English football might covet Stoke’s front four of Xherdan Shaqiri, Ibrahim Afellay and Marko Arnautovic behind Bojan, but 10th place in the Premier League and a goal difference of zero reflects the inconsistency of Hughes’ team.

Jamie Carragher, who is in Sydney with Fowler for the Liverpool Legends vs. Australia Legends match on Thursday, said the blame for some of the disappointing results overseen is not down to Klopp. If it was the whole truth then why are we so well paid?

It might have been more before halftime but Roberto Firmino, restored to center-forward in preference to Christian Benteke, who had a terrible game at West Ham on Saturday, miscontrolled after being set through and was dispossessed by Ryan Shawcross.

Despite a clamour for changes now that the January transfer window is open, Klopp has been consistent in his view that the current squad will be given an opportunity to prove their value. However, Liverpool’s problems this season have often come from direct play, with Andy Carroll the latest to capitalise on their mistakes at the back, so Hughes may be tempted to play a long ball style – something which former manager Pulis was famed for. The Serbian teenager had an Anfield medical on Monday but is not due to make the move until next summer. The absence of freshly-injured Mamadou Sakho before the game combined with Martin Škrtel’s hamstring injury leaves Liverpool just one senior centre back available for selection.