Now this cannot be ‘bad’ news for West Ham United. Liverpool have been in good but- let us not forget – not perfect form this season. A 3-0 victory over Bournemouth and a 3-1 away win at Milan in the Champions League are recent highlights but they lost at home to 0-1 Nottingham Forest in the Premier League on the 14th September.
But with a rush of games in a short space of time, as we’d suggested earlier, Arne Slot is faced with the need to rest players and according to The Liverpool Echo the changes could be wholesale. Which would give West Ham a much needed boost before the trip to Anfield for Wednesday night’s Carling Cup 3rd round clash against the holders.
It seems that Liverpool have made the ‘league cup’ their third priority and if the report is to be believed, would be rotating their squad completely for the match against The Irons!
Goalkeeper Allison is likely to be injured in any case. The report, entitled
‘Liverpool could field an entirely different team against West Ham United in the Carabao Cup’ offers the details:
“Both Joe Gomez and Jaerll Quansah have been waiting patiently for an opportunity at centre-back and would be ready to step in for skipper Virgil Van Dijk and Ibrahima Konate while at right-back Conor Bradley will be expected to replace Trent Alexander-Arnold.
On the opposite side of the defence, Kostas Tsimikas will hope for minutes ahead of Andy Robertson.”
The report then details why most of the midfield and front line should be rested, and, in a welcome suggestion, proposes a start for Darwin Nunez, plus “time may have come for summer signing Federico Chiesa to have a first start on the right in place of Salah having stepped off the bench in the last two games.”
So, the possibility of a full eleven changes for Wednesday night must offer hope for an under-pressure West Ham United looking for just their second vict0ry at Anfield in about 200 years. we’ll take everything in our favour at this stage, to be honest- the good news is that we can’t be any worse the team that scratched around painfully with ‘that’ set-up against Chelsea.
Who cares,they could play there under 10s and still win.
Had a lovely bit of pie and mash at lunchtime though so it aint all bad.
Here we go again , weakened Liverpool side we must have a chance. Whoever they put out we have got to play well and win. The times I have read this garbage about players missing and we must have a chance . Let’s do the talking after the game.
FFS give them a chance ; every twat and his dog seems to know better that JL
Based on his past record things will improve hopefully before XmasTeddybard
Even their youth team could most probably beat us currently. And did you not see the Nunez goal on Saturday?
I suspect all we will see is park the bus and hope to nick it on pens.
At the moment Liverpool could play a women’s 11 against Westham and still win . GOpetegui .