Liverpool miracles to host Atalanta at Anfield
Liverpool host Atalanta in Champions League at Anfield on Wednesday.
The high flying Reds, are up and raring to go again on Wednesday evening when they will play host to Champions League group D opponent Atalanta. The Reds are top of the group with a perfect record in the first three fixtures, and are looking to maintain that perfection here.
With two ties remaining a win would give Jurgen Klopp and the lads some breathing room in their pursuit of moving on to the knockouts.
Their exemplary performance on the road in Italy three weeks ago, saw Liverpool soundly thrash a very good and dangerous, offensively minded team by a 5-0 margin, was due to a Diogo Jota hat trick. They will need a repeat of that excellence here.
Quite assuredly, Atalanta was stung in Italy and will be coming to the pitch at Anfield with a mind to correct accounts. Aye, they will be looking for a reckoning. Expect them to bring a game for Klopp and the Reds. I’m sure Jurgen and his staff and squad will not be underestimating them.
After the masterful performance by man or beast (James Milner – skipper) and the entire Reds side on Sunday; shoveling up a good Leicester side and tossing em off it becomes prescient to come to expect these kinds of performances from our lads. Bruised, battered, broken, but by no means defeated.
This team has dropped four points since VVD went down, and have yet to loose. Think about that for a moment….aye we have shipped some goals over this stretch; to well be expected, but with all the other injuries combined, other setback and adversity. The COVID striking players, and pulling them from training and play has to have an effect, right?
But these Reds have not played that way. Indeed they have played with even more calm, poise, intensity and hunger with each setback or injury/illness issue. Where does this come from? Klopp? Assuredly!!
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And we are witnessing the well-oiled machine Liverpool have become club-wide. From the cutting edge new £50m pound training facility at Kirby, to the folks who keep the grounds, and the far reaching hallways of Liverpool’s resurgent ‘boot room’, to the players themselves at all levels of development.
This is a mentality a philosophy of winning and believing in a process of winning, that Liverpool have become in five extraordinary glorious years.
Take just a moment to breathe that all in, the smell of success. Jurgen and the lads have just broken an all time Anfield record that stood for 39 years…64 without a loss in the Premier League.
What’s beautiful to consider here, is just that; they are nowhere near done, just getting the engine going. More titles, trophies and glory to be had and these Reds are hungry for it. At least that’s the way they play!
There’s a good bit of similarity between these Reds and the legends from 78-81; they found a way to win the close ones, they rolled through opponents like-a steamroller in league and Europe, and they believed in themselves and a man named Paisley.
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We have Klopp and these boys/men. I’ll take that against any side in the world.