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23 January 2016 2168 comments
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The starter pistol is fired for Gameweek 23 as Norwich City try to keep pace with Liverpool at Carrow Road. The Canaries are unbeaten in five match-ups on home turf, while the Reds tasted victory just twice across their previous eight fixtures.

Although Norwich head into this clash off the back of successive road defeats, they won their previous two home ties by an aggregate of 3-0. In fact, only three sides have conceded fewer home goals (10) than the Norfolk outfit this term, highlighting their defensive diligence at Carrow Road. That being said, only two teams have accrued fewer goals on familiar soil (12) than Alex Neil’s men, which will be music to the ears of Fantasy managers who’ve recruited from the visitors’ defence.

Despite ranking top for attempts (81) over the last four Gameweeks, the Merseysiders mustered just four goals and 17 shots on target, engendering the league’s worst shot accuracy (21%) and third-worst shot-conversion rate (4.9%). At the other end of the pitch, Jurgen Klopp’s charges surrendered the joint-fifth-most shots inside the box (33). With regards to their form in road matches, Liverpool have managed just a goal a game (11), despite placing fourth for attempts (148).

  1. Jazz!
    • 11 Years
    10 years, 2 months ago

    So I should do Mahrez > Firmino?

    1. Swan - Villa Proud
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      10 years, 2 months ago

      I am short funds to do it without another move. I would thought

    2. The Royal Robin
      • 10 Years
      10 years, 2 months ago

      I think everybody will be, you're not the first person to ask. I've seen somebody else mention KDB > Firmino though which is more tempting to me. I think Mahrez is a season keeper, and I think with Kun, KDB isn't so essential. I know he has Sunderland next, but KDB > Firmino frees up more money which enables people like me to have Kane, Kun and Lukaku.

      1. Jazz!
        • 11 Years
        10 years, 2 months ago

        Ah, see your point. 🙂

      2. bvb
        • 12 Years
        10 years, 2 months ago

        seems like you're a couple of trades behind mate

        1. The Royal Robin
          • 10 Years
          10 years, 2 months ago

          Why?

          1. The Royal Robin
            • 10 Years
            10 years, 2 months ago

            FWIW, I have Kane and Kun and have had Lukaku for a good 20 GW's, I only got rid of him recently. Other than Lukaku I don't think I'm behind at all.

    3. il Brutto
      • 12 Years
      10 years, 2 months ago

      Liverpool just concede four I'd hold.

  2. The Royal Robin
    • 10 Years
    10 years, 2 months ago

    Looked like there were some 'afters' on the way into the tunnel.

  3. Ninja Škrtel
    • 12 Years
    10 years, 2 months ago

    wtf was that???

  4. TheBusDriver
    • 10 Years
    10 years, 2 months ago

    I'd rather have no defenders at all than Moreno.

  5. Greenbackbøøg…
    • 11 Years
    10 years, 2 months ago

    In come the pool haters, still 3 points 😀

    1. Epic Fail
      • 15 Years
      10 years, 2 months ago

      The push for Europa is on. It's their year.

      1. Butcher
        • 12 Years
        10 years, 2 months ago

        Lol

  6. Scratch
    • 16 Years
    10 years, 2 months ago

    Did either of those keepers actually save anything??

    1. Venom Snake
      • 12 Years
      10 years, 2 months ago

      Mignolet was saved some blushes

  7. Optimus.
    • 15 Years
    10 years, 2 months ago

    Title race blown wide open after that win

    1. Bøwstring The Carp
      • 14 Years
      10 years, 2 months ago

      😆

    2. Gnu
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 16 Years
      10 years, 2 months ago

      Think that's Norwich out the running now.

    3. Every Dog Has Its Day
      • 11 Years
      10 years, 2 months ago

      HAHAHAHAHA

    4. Wirtzle Gummidge
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      10 years, 2 months ago

      Optimustic

  8. Eden Azzzar
    • 10 Years
    10 years, 2 months ago

    Klipity Klop go Liverpool up the table

  9. Syd.
    • 16 Years
    10 years, 2 months ago

    Jurgen Klopp is the new Kevin Keegan

    You score 4

    We will score 5

    🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

  10. Venom Snake
    • 12 Years
    10 years, 2 months ago

    WOW!

  11. Nickofoz
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 11 Years
    10 years, 2 months ago

    As a Liverpool fan and Firmino owner, that game couldn't have gone any better! 😀

      • 12 Years
      10 years, 2 months ago

      You have the wrong grav...

      1. Every Dog Has Its Day
        • 11 Years
        10 years, 2 months ago

        😉

          • 12 Years
          10 years, 2 months ago

          You're a sellout too 😉

          1. Every Dog Has Its Day
            • 11 Years
            10 years, 2 months ago

            Love you Baldie. 😉

            1. Eden Hazardous
              • 11 Years
              10 years, 2 months ago

              Doolittle is not online...

      2. Nickofoz
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 11 Years
        10 years, 2 months ago

        So do you, after Stoke's cleanies 😉

          • 12 Years
          10 years, 2 months ago

          We're not there yet 😛

  12. Eden Hazardous
    • 11 Years
    10 years, 2 months ago

    THE KLOPP EFFECT

    1. Eden Hazardous
      • 11 Years
      10 years, 2 months ago

      P.S - Not really 😉

    2. Business Cat
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      10 years, 2 months ago

      I think it was all the Nivea skin cream personally

  13. Make United Great Again
    • 13 Years
    10 years, 2 months ago

    Flipping hell.

  14. Numb
    • 11 Years
    10 years, 2 months ago

    How many goals do Liverpool need to score before Moreno is likely to get something?

    1. Epic Fail
      • 15 Years
      10 years, 2 months ago

      6 in a game.

  15. Doosra - ☭DeclanMyGenius…
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 16 Years
    10 years, 2 months ago

    To all those that I advised to play Moreno: I can only humbly apologise. Sorry. I had no idea 'Pool could be that crap. 🙁

    1. Jazz!
      • 11 Years
      10 years, 2 months ago

      Bench next week definitely - and he'll get me a CS again.

    2. HuttonDressedasLahm
      • 16 Years
      10 years, 2 months ago

      To balance that, I said to sell him

    3. Bøwstring The Carp
      • 14 Years
      10 years, 2 months ago

      Some on here believe they played well....

      Hell's bells.

      1. internal error
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 13 Years
        10 years, 2 months ago

        They deserved to win. Quite simple

        1. Bøwstring The Carp
          • 14 Years
          10 years, 2 months ago

          They did win, yes.

          Did they deserve to win? No, imo.

          They conceded 4 to Norwich. Any team that concedes 4 to Norwich do not deserve 3 points. Unbelievable luck for 2 goals.

          1. internal error
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 13 Years
            10 years, 2 months ago

            Its not luck. Its human errors. They happen. Liverpool make mistakes all the time and drop points for it. I bet you dont say they didnt deserve to lose when that happens?

            1. Bøwstring The Carp
              • 14 Years
              10 years, 2 months ago

              To get 2 strokes of luck like that in one game is ridiculous.

              At the end of the day it was against Norwich. Liverpool are arguably the bigger team. If they lose narrowly to a team like Watford or something, you have to question why they struggled at all. When you flip it around and compare the bigger team's mistakes to the lowers team's mistakes it's hardly fair since you'd expect the poorer team to make mistakes considering we label them "the poorer team".

              As you said we can agree to disagree, but if I was a Liverpool fan I'd be in no way happy with that performance despite the win.

      2. Doosra - ☭DeclanMyGenius…
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 16 Years
        10 years, 2 months ago

        You're having a laugh. Shocking display. Klopp must be crapping hisself.

    4. Polaris - The Mortal Coil
      • 12 Years
      10 years, 2 months ago

      We all get FPL decisions wrong. Don't worry about it.

    5. internal error
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      10 years, 2 months ago

      You get far more right than wrong

    6. Every Dog Has Its Day
      • 11 Years
      10 years, 2 months ago

      We all got it wrong I played him and Firmino... 😉

      1. Doosra - ☭DeclanMyGenius…
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 16 Years
        10 years, 2 months ago

        😆 Nicely done!

        1. Every Dog Has Its Day
          • 11 Years
          10 years, 2 months ago

          Thanks lad! 🙂

    7. The 12th Man
      • 12 Years
      10 years, 2 months ago

      Don't worry mate. I think playing him was the general consensus.

  16. Gnu
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 16 Years
    10 years, 2 months ago

    In the last 10 minutes nearly 4000 people have transferred in Firmino, wow.

    1. Doosra - ☭DeclanMyGenius…
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 16 Years
      10 years, 2 months ago

      BandFerrari.

    2. Eden Azzzar
      • 10 Years
      10 years, 2 months ago

      I can't believe that

      1. Gnu
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 16 Years
        10 years, 2 months ago

        True, posted over 10 minutes ago how many had transferred him & Naismith in.

    3. tm245
      • 14 Years
      10 years, 2 months ago

      Wild cards, probably.

    4. Business Cat
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      10 years, 2 months ago

      Who's getting transferred out most?

  17. DA Minnion (Former great)
    • 13 Years
    10 years, 2 months ago

    0 from 1any good.

    1. In Like Flynn.
      • Has Moderation Rights
      • 15 Years
      10 years, 2 months ago

      Better than a Minus score I guess.

  18. CABAYE4
    • 14 Years
    10 years, 2 months ago

    Players who had as many league goals this season as Firmino before today.

    James Morrison
    Jonny Howson
    Dan Gosling
    Russell Martin

    Bit of perspective needed.

    1. internal error
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      10 years, 2 months ago

      Ok mate. Firmino is as good as them.

    2. F_Ivanovic
      • 10 Years
      10 years, 2 months ago

      Look at Firmino's record last year. Most players take some time to adjust to the Premiership and it's not as though he played a ton of games/minutes at the start of the year either. Now he's had a run of games and is looking sharp.... so it's no surprise of a bandwagon.

  19. HuttonDressedasLahm
    • 16 Years
    10 years, 2 months ago

    Goals 9
    Saves 3

    😆 😆 😆

  20. Studgie G
    • 14 Years
    10 years, 2 months ago

    hahahaahaa GET INNNNNNNNNNNNN were SH!TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT 😀

  21. AK ⭐
    • 13 Years
    10 years, 2 months ago

    What a game

  22. ry ry
    • 10 Years
    10 years, 2 months ago

    "best worst game ever"

  23. Lateriser 12
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    10 years, 2 months ago

    What just happened

    1. The Bandit
      • 15 Years
      10 years, 2 months ago

      Benteke destroyed Klopps glasses so he can't see how crap he is

  24. The Bandit
    • 15 Years
    10 years, 2 months ago

    Liverpool players all threw their shirts into the crowd, Mignolet's came flying back 😀

    17 from 1 any good?

    1. Venom Snake
      • 12 Years
      10 years, 2 months ago

      Hahahahaha

    2. ry ry
      • 10 Years
      10 years, 2 months ago

      he didn't catch it though

      1. In Like Flynn.
        • Has Moderation Rights
        • 15 Years
        10 years, 2 months ago

        Beat me to it.

    3. In Like Flynn.
      • Has Moderation Rights
      • 15 Years
      10 years, 2 months ago

      Then he dropped it.

    4. Nickofoz
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      10 years, 2 months ago

      😀

    5. Arteta
      • 10 Years
      10 years, 2 months ago

      Hahaha nice one 😀

  25. Venom Snake
    • 12 Years
    10 years, 2 months ago

    We are in desperate need of new signings. Anything is better then what we have

  26. Jammy
    • 12 Years
    10 years, 2 months ago

    Ridiculous finish but v.pleased liverpool won

  27. The Royal Robin
    • 10 Years
    10 years, 2 months ago

    A) KDB > Firmino or B) Funes Mori > Sagna ?

    1. VS10_
      • 10 Years
      10 years, 2 months ago

      What is the point now, at least wait until the games are over.

    2. Relaxing
      • 10 Years
      10 years, 2 months ago

      Maybe, but I think there are better options than sagna tbh

  28. tm245
    • 14 Years
    10 years, 2 months ago

    Liverpool mids with five goals today.

    1. Venom Snake
      • 12 Years
      10 years, 2 months ago

      We only had mids playing?

      1. Nickofoz
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 11 Years
        10 years, 2 months ago

        You're not wrong. Except for a Benteke cameo at the end

  29. Spike ⚽️
    • 14 Years
    10 years, 2 months ago

    Average so far is 1pt and top 1000 is 0pt 😉

  30. Every Dog Has Its Day
    • 11 Years
    10 years, 2 months ago

    Every Dog Has Its Day 😉

    1. Slash
      • 13 Years
      10 years, 2 months ago

      Every cat has its nap