First State Kopites

More feasts, less famine please S4 E26


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It’s April 19th and it’s episode 26 of our 4th season. welcome dear listener. I’m Paul and I am joined by Daz. We are here to talk about our last three games including us playing like peak 2021-22 Liverpool for at least 100 minutes. And in part 3 we will look ahead to the Forest and West Ham games. Thanks for joining us. 

Want to get started by acknowledging last Saturday was the thirty fourth anniversary of Hillsborough:

First State Kopites Special with Richie and Damian. Hillsborough and the uniqueness of Liverpool - 97 football fans traveled to a football match and did not return - let’s not forget that the verdict of the last judicial review was that they were unlawfully killed.

Part One - demolishing Leeds 6-1 after no wins in 5 (random stat on TV)

  • Trent - 40% of the episode has to be devoted to him

    • Seems like a front foot Trent is always going to be better for us - but much depends on how we set up, games state etc.

    • Feels like Leeds were a good opponent, sadly because they don’t try to cheat the clock like other teams we will go on to speak about. And Meslier…. 

    • 6 attackers available for the first time this season

    • Part Two - Arsenal and Chelsea

      • Arsenal - for 50 minutes we look like peak Liverpool 2021-22. 4xG or close to 4xG depending on the model you used, Crowd, team figuring out the changes.

      • Penalties - do you know what counts for a penalty any more? Salah goes down easily AAAAAHHHHHH. Tierney did not hold onto Salah for long enough said the blustering Craig Burley - confirmation bias meets mental gymnastics again. Brighton get an apology, why not us?

      • We seemed to have decided that the officials are against us given the much stronger reaction to the officials in recent weeks. Tierney to be fair has form.

      • Arsenal - probably not going to win the league now. Their time wasting and flopping drove me to distraction. We had them on the ropes of course. 

      • Oh and a brief word on Chelsea - why didn’t we get to face Frank Lampard? Are they just disrupting themselves?

      • Part Three - looking ahead:

        • Forest at home - they haven’t looked great away from home and now they look like they lack belief at home.

        • West Ham away - probably one of the harder games

        • Transfer speculation - Bellingham news - do we have the energy?

        • Season review starts now…  Liverpool have scored 56 times from 54.7 expected goals in the league this season. 

        • We will be back sometime next week after Liverpool have played Forest and West Ham. Thanks to Daz. 

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