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Can Bournemouth belief cause an upset at Liverpool?

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AFCB Must Go Into Game With ‘Hope In Their Hearts’

After our home defeat against Arsenal in the league, our youngsters gave everyone at our club and the fans a big boost after beating Norwich City away in the League Cup.
Our next Premier League game is probably another one of the toughest this season when our club make the journey to the North West and the Red side of the City of Liverpool.

Liverpool known as The Reds play at Anfield Stadium the home of the famous Kop, which always sings before every game the well-known song from the musical Carousel, “You’ll Never Walk Alone”, which has become the Liverpool anthem. It was taken up back in the sixties by Gerry Marsden of Gerry and the Pacemakers and became a number one hit record. One of Liverpool’s famous managers was Bill Shankly and the story goes that Shankly heard and liked the song and wanted to inspire his players by words from the song keeping faith in yourself, the team and togetherness through tough times. He appeared on Desert Island Discs and this was one song he chose, later the Liverpool fans took it up.

Jurgen’s Klopp side have not had the best of starts to the new 2022-23 season by their standards. Their first two games were against London sides. The first was away against last season’s Championship Champions Fulham at Craven Cottage, the game finished 2-2. The Reds were at home at Anfield for their next game, with Crystal Palace being the visitors, it ended 1-1. This was the first time since the 2012-13 season when they drew with Manchester City 2-2, that Liverpool hadn’t won their opening game at home. Their most recent game was away against Manchester United at Old Trafford which they lost 2-1, making this also their worst start to a season since the same year (above) in their first three Premier League games. So there are two ways of looking at this, either there is hope for us in they have had a bad start and are hard hit with injuries, the other side is we could face a backlash and Klopp will be looking for his first win of the season and on home turf.

Liverpool have made three signings so far in the Summer transfer window. Uruguay striker 22-year-old Darwin Nunez from Benfica for a club record fee of £85 million, the initial fee is £64 million, will rise to £85 million depending on certain conditions being met in his contract. Other signings have been Fabio Carvalho the winger from Fulham for an undisclosed fee. They have also signed young 18-year-old right back Calvin Ramsay from Aberdeen for £6.5 million. The most notable player leaving Liverpool was Sadio Mane who joined Bayern Munich for £35 million. They also sold Neco Williams to Nottingham Forest for £16 million.

The last time AFCB visited Anfield in the Premier League was in March of the 2019-20 season, we lost by the odd goal in three. AFCB got off to a great start scoring after nine minutes through Callum Wilson. But two goals in a nine-minute spell in the first half from Mo Salah and Sadio Mane gave the home side the lead and that was how it remained, Liverpool winning 2-1, which was their 22nd successive Premier League win at home and breaking the English record set by Bill Shankly’s team in 1972. Liverpool went on to win the title with 99 points,18 points clear of second place Manchester City, the 30-year wait to win a top title was over.

In all our games in the league away against Liverpool, AFCB have W 0, D 1, L 4.
All competitions against Liverpool, AFCB have W 1, D 3, L 13.

Liverpool v AFCB

Liverpool Win

Liverpool Win

Draw

Draw

AFCB Win

AFCB Win

Liverpool Team News
They have a large injury list. The latest is Naby Keita who missed the game on Monday night. Others out injured are Thiago Alcantara, Alex Oxlade Chamberlain, Curtis Jones, Diogo Jota, Caoimhin Kelleher, Ibrahima Konate, Joel Matip and Calvin Ramsay. Their record signing Darwin Nunez is suspended after picking up a red card against Crystal Palace on his home debut.

Liverpool Player To Watch
Mo Salah, a great player to watch. Liverpool’s leading scorer in every season since he joined them in 2017 (joint top scorer 2018-19 with Mane) and leading scorer this season with two goals.

AFCB Team News
Ryan Fredericks, Joe Rothwell and Junior Stanislas will all miss this game as they recover from injuries. David Brooks is gradually getting back towards fitness. Hopefully Dominic Solanke will be available again after injury.

AFCB Player To Watch
If he is fit Dominic Solanke, been badly missed from our team and his strike partner Kieffer Moore.

The Referee
Stuart Atwell is the man in charge of this game.
He was in charge of our home win against Nottingham Forest at the backend of last season.

Your say…

purbeck67 wrote…

Liverpool are struggling defensively. The centre-back and full-backs are nowhere near last year’s form and they can’t find a second centre-back.
Normally you’d think about tightening up for a game like this, but you actually have a chance by having a go. A front three, with Moore roughing them up, would be a way to win.
Their midfield struggled against the energy of Manchester United, so there’s another opportunity.
Will we go for it? Over to you Scotty. – Join the conversation, click here.

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