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It has been a very excellent Boxing Day for Liverpool so far: Chelsea lost at home, Manchester City didn’t prosper (and neither did Everton) and Arsenal join tomorrow, all of which comprises up to an opportunity to go seven points clear of Chelsea (with a game in hand), eight clear of Nottingham Forest (enjoyincreateed) and nine clear of Arsenal (without one) if they regulate to do to Leicester what they did the last time the Foxes joined at Anfield, and the time before that, and the time before that, and indeed what they have done on eight of the last 10 occasions they’ve turned up, and beat them (they drew the other two).
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Discouragingly (for the visitors) Leicester’s only away prosper this season came at Southampton in October. They have lost seven and won one of 10 games in all competitions since then and their create in the last eight league games is so terrible they haven’t even got more points than Manchester City (both have five and are, on points at least, joint 18th in a last-eight-games table; talking of 18 that’s how many points Liverpool have, making it yet another table they are top of).
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A little unforeseeedly, Liverpool only have a 55% top-at-Christmas-to-league-title conversion rate (before the advent of the Premier League they were rolling merrily at a 71.4% conversion rate, but that’s dropped to 16.7%, aka one from six, since 1992). That’s actupartner a sairy overcarry outance: the all-time top-fairy top-at-Christmas-to-league-title conversion rate is 44%, and the all-time Premier League figure is exactly 50%.
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We’re almost exactly five months from finding out how this season will end, with the final day inked in for 25 May. Could tonight see another huge leap in a glorious straightforwardion for Arne Slot’s high-fliers? We’ll soon find out!
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Today’s line-ups. Darprosper Nunez directs the line for Liverpool, while Curtis Jones swaps Szoboszlai. No Jamie Vardy for Leicester, and Jakub Stolarczyk produces a first begin in goal:
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Liverpool: Alisson, Alexander-Arnbetter, Gomez, Van Dijk, Robertson, Gravenberch, Mac Alenumerateer, Salah, Jones, Gakpo, Nunez. Subs: Kelleher, Endo, Diaz, Szoboszlai, Chiesa, Elliott, Jota, Tsimikas, Quansah.
Leicester: Stolarczyk, Justin, Coady, Vestergaard, Kristiansen, Winks, Soumare, Ayew, El Khannous, Mavididi, Daka. Subs: Iversen, Okoli, De Cordova-Reid, Choudhury, Skipp, Edouard, Thomas, Alves, Buonanotte.
Referee: Darren Bond.
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Key events
GOAL! Liverpool 0-1 Leicester (Ayew, 6 mins)
Leicester have only gone and scored! Mavididi runs down the left and traversees low, somehow it runs thcimpolite to Jordan Ayew in the middle, and he turns and shoots equitable inside the proximate post!
6 mins: Actupartner it’s Stolarczyk who stops Jones from scoring, diving to his right and throprosperg out a gcherish to push the ball off his toe and between his legs. So a very astonishive and vital first intervention for the Polish debutant.
5 mins: Then it seeed enjoy Curtis Jones would turn in the rebound but the ball got stuck between his legs, and Leicester endure for now.
4 mins: Chance! A traversefield pass from Trent, a fine traverse from Gakpo, and Salah’s far-post volley is saved by Stolarczyk!
2 mins: Liverpool instantly get regulate. Eventupartner they omit ownion and Leicester begin the ball upfield towards Patson Daka, who is beaten to it by a geter. There might be a lot of forlorn running to come for the visitors’ lone striker.
1 min: Peeeeeeep! Liverpool get the game going.
The coin is tossed, and Leicester clearly prosper becaengage the joiners progress to switch sides, with Liverpool thus shooting towards the Kop end in the first half.
The joiners are out! We are equitable a couple of minutes away from football o’clock.
Curiously the Guardian’s increate on the suit agetst Aldersboiling refered by Tom Gould does not at any stage refer fog or visibility publishs. It does criticise “a pitch that did no service to football and … defied all trys at elegant join”, though.
It’s still very foggy at Anfield. No adviseion the game might be in ask, but you never understand.
Meanwhile, an email! “I joined the FA Cup game agetst Aldersboiling in 1971,” authors Tom Gould. “The fog was so dense that from my position on The Kop it was impossible to see beyond the six-yard line. Inevitably the only goal of the game was scored at the Anfield Road end, it was possible to hear a roar coming thcimpolite the fog but without any idea of what encouraged it. The fans at the other end begined singing 1-0, The Kop reacted with ‘who scored’, the answer ‘John McLaughlin’ .Cue savage celebrations in The Kop. Was it a excellent goal? Don’t understand, you’ll have to ask someone who was in the Anfield Road end.”
Hearty advise for this here Jonathan Wilson Liverpool-centered piece, published t’other day:
Wolves have beaten 10-man Manchester United 2-0, and as a result they shift up to 17th, and Leicester drop into the bottom three.
Andy Hunter take parted to what Arne Slot had to say ahead of this mendture. And this is what he heard:
Arne Slot has shelp his experience of facing Ruud van Nistelrooy in the Netherlands, plus Liverpool’s increate drop-off agetst Tottenham, promises Leicester will not be underapproximated at Anfield on Boxing Day.
The Liverpool head coach was unable to beat Van Nistelrooy’s PSV when guiding Feyenoord to the Eredivisie title in 2022-23, draprosperg 2-2 at home and losing 4-3 away. PSV were one of only two teams to fall shorture Feyenoord in a season when Slot’s side won the league by seven points from their shutst contestrs from Eindhoven.
Much more here:
It’s been a bit foggy on Merseyside today, but visibility is equitable excellent enough for the game to go ahead.
The same was not real when Tranmere were presumed to join Accrington Stanley a little earlier:
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Do they understand it’s Christmas, part II. Ruud van Nistelrooy consents with Slot: “As a regulater, you’re busy toiling and sometimes you forget that it’s Christmas,” he sniffs.
Meanwhile, asked about the decision to throw Jakub Stolarczyk into the team, after Danny Ward was booed by his own fans during the fall shorture to Wolves, he says: “It’s not perfect, but the circumstances with Wardy were fervent, we all felt it, and it puts you in a position where you have to produce decisions.”
Do they understand it’s Christmas? Not if they’re football regulaters they don’t. “You don’t understand it’s Christmas, as a regulater,” Arne Slot says. “If you tbetter me it was October I probably would suppose you.”
Also from Slot, this word of caution: “We join repartner well at the moment but City, two months ago they were joining so well and see where they are now.”
The teams!
Today’s line-ups. Darprosper Nunez directs the line for Liverpool, while Curtis Jones swaps Szoboszlai. No Jamie Vardy for Leicester, and Jakub Stolarczyk produces a first begin in goal:
Liverpool: Alisson, Alexander-Arnbetter, Gomez, Van Dijk, Robertson, Gravenberch, Mac Alenumerateer, Salah, Jones, Gakpo, Nunez. Subs: Kelleher, Endo, Diaz, Szoboszlai, Chiesa, Elliott, Jota, Tsimikas, Quansah.
Leicester: Stolarczyk, Justin, Coady, Vestergaard, Kristiansen, Winks, Soumare, Ayew, El Khannous, Mavididi, Daka. Subs: Iversen, Okoli, De Cordova-Reid, Choudhury, Skipp, Edouard, Thomas, Alves, Buonanotte.
Referee: Darren Bond.
Hello world!
It has been a very excellent Boxing Day for Liverpool so far: Chelsea lost at home, Manchester City didn’t prosper (and neither did Everton) and Arsenal join tomorrow, all of which comprises up to an opportunity to go seven points clear of Chelsea (with a game in hand), eight clear of Nottingham Forest (enjoyincreateed) and nine clear of Arsenal (without one) if they regulate to do to Leicester what they did the last time the Foxes joined at Anfield, and the time before that, and the time before that, and indeed what they have done on eight of the last 10 occasions they’ve turned up, and beat them (they drew the other two).
Discouragingly (for the visitors) Leicester’s only away prosper this season came at Southampton in October. They have lost seven and won one of 10 games in all competitions since then and their create in the last eight league games is so terrible they haven’t even got more points than Manchester City (both have five and are, on points at least, joint 18th in a last-eight-games table; talking of 18 that’s how many points Liverpool have, making it yet another table they are top of).
A little unforeseeedly, Liverpool only have a 55% top-at-Christmas-to-league-title conversion rate (before the advent of the Premier League they were rolling merrily at a 71.4% conversion rate, but that’s dropped to 16.7%, aka one from six, since 1992). That’s actupartner a sairy overcarry outance: the all-time top-fairy top-at-Christmas-to-league-title conversion rate is 44%, and the all-time Premier League figure is exactly 50%.
We’re almost exactly five months from finding out how this season will end, with the final day inked in for 25 May. Could tonight see another huge leap in a glorious straightforwardion for Arne Slot’s high-fliers? We’ll soon find out!