12 Mar 2018 10:05:30
Hi All, long time reader first time poster.

I have checked our pass results from a 12:30 kickoff and it shows are poor when starting early. Do you think this is issue for Klopps men?

Manu vs Liverpool 2-1
Liverpool vs Manu 0-0
Man City vs Liverpool 5-0
Watford vs Liverpool 3-3

last season
Spurs vs Liverpool 0-0
Swansea vs Liverpool 1-2 (w)
Liverpool vs Swansea 2-3
Liverpool vs Wolves 1-2

We have won once in 8 games which is pretty poor. Let me know your thoughts?

Ps great site.

1.) 12 Mar 2018
12 Mar 2018 12:09:04
Klopps boys like a good lie in mate.

2.) 12 Mar 2018
12 Mar 2018 12:58:31
That is a poor showing.

3.) 12 Mar 2018
12 Mar 2018 13:08:20
I remember Ed001 talking about this a while back.

I think it was something to do with the players having a specific routine in the days before a game and the morning of a game and this just not being adapted for early kick offs.

It seems like something that the coaching staff should've got their heads around by now though, which is a little bit of a worry.

{Ed001's Note - a lot of clubs do struggle with early kick offs. I have seen a similar moan on almost every site regarding the team never performing well in early kick offs. I just think they are bad idea in general. No one seems as pumped up for them, the atmosphere is almost always flat and the games almost always are dreadful. However TV companies want their lunchtime kick offs to show.}

4.) 12 Mar 2018
12 Mar 2018 13:09:40
Especially as we have another 2 early starts due this season, we can't afford to slip up now!

5.) 12 Mar 2018
12 Mar 2018 13:29:50
I agree, that was my worry. Crystal Palace and Stoke which have been bogus teams against us in the past. Hopefully Klopp and the coaching staff have now looked into this. The only good news is that we have Chelsea at 3pm and not 12:30.

6.) 12 Mar 2018
12 Mar 2018 13:49:29
Ed01 a thought the reason our games against Utd were always early kick offs was so in theory the thugs and alcohol woundnt be mixed? I must be way off the mark in thinking that tho if you say it's tv mate.

{Ed001's Note - that is the original theory yes, but now they are chosen for TV, which is why we have them every week, rather than just for games that are considered to be flaspoints.}

7.) 12 Mar 2018
12 Mar 2018 20:34:57
I would like to know how many times Liverpool play these early kick offs, compered to say the other top six clubs, most of them games fall flat .