It’s September 11th. It’s the latest episode of our 5th season, welcome dear listener. I’m Paul joined by Sean and Daz. We are here to look ahead to the Wolves game, start the conversation about the upcoming Thursday afternoon adventure against LASK and glance ahead at West Ham, Leicester, Spurs away, Union SG and then Brighton away. Thanks for joining us.

Part One - away at Wolves:

  • We had a nightmare there last year - early goals conceded
  • They looked better under Lopetegui, but they’ve lost Neves, Traore, Jimenez and now Nunes. They have Kalajdzic back (and Matt Doherty)
  • Unlucky at United, lost to Brighton 4-1, outlasted Everton and lost to Palace but it wasn’t reported as close
  • Early kick off after the international break
  • Some good performance - Szoboszlai, Endo, Darwin,

  • None of the South American contingent will be back till Thursday - Brazil don’t start till 10pm ET on Tuesday.

  • No Virgil, not sure about TAA or Ibou.

  • Formation. Predictions?

Part Two - looking ahead and other news:

  • 2 Europa League games in the next sequence:
  • LASK - do we know anything, other they seemed very excited to play us - 3rd after 6 games with 11 points - RB Salzburg has 18. Couldn’t find anything to be scared about.

  • Union SG and Toulouse are the other two.

  • 3 games that look more challenging than this one:

  • We’ll do a deeper dive but of this 4 game sequence what would be a good outcome - 8 points, 10 points, 12 points

  • Once we are done with these aways, we’ll only have City, United and Arsenal away.

  • Sidenotes:

  • Salah did not leave as we predicted last week. I read a lot about Sky being upset that he didn’t leave, given it fuelled their coverage for a week.
  • Klopp win stat 300 games - 188 wins vs Fergy 183; Wenger 180…
  • Ali was not on the Ballon D’Or list of goalkeepers - Ramsdale, Martinez, Ederson, Ter Stegen I could go on - other than to say you wouldn’t trade any of them for Alisson Becker.

We will be back with a preview of the Wolves game. Thanks to Daz and Sean for joining me. And thank you for listening.
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