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Liverpool v Wolves - Liam Keen and Nathan Judah match preview

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00:00Hello, Nathan Judah, I'm here with world supporter Mr. Liam Keane. Liam, it's Friday, that means

00:14pre-match press conference time, that means Mr. Vito Pereira time, as we head to the easy

00:19game at Anfield on Sunday, where they will host, or they will face, league leaders Liverpool.

00:26In terms of, we all know how good Liverpool are, but I like the way that Pereira talked,

00:31he said, look, they're a great side, but I'm not interested in Liverpool, I'm interested

00:35in Wolves. To me, he said, as the van goes by, to me, it's the loudest van in the world.

00:40It is, yeah, old as well. My team, my players, my players are the best players in the world

00:48and I like that, he backs his plays, he's more interested in the team that he's playing

00:51and the squad that he's taking to Liverpool than the Liverpool players themselves and

00:55I like that philosophy. Yeah, I mean, maybe we'll look back on it in... 6-0 defeat? Shouldn't

01:01it be Mark Staller? Maybe we'll look back on it in 48 hours time and think, you know,

01:07it's all well and good saying that, but you've got to find the balance between keeping...

01:09And I'm sure he is, but he was more messaged about his guys. And I think, yeah, the sort

01:14of public message that you put out there of backing your players, of being positive, saying

01:21yes, Liverpool are one of the best teams in Europe, but these players at Wolves are

01:24the best players in the world because they're my players and I want to do well, I want to

01:27go there. Back your players. And it's not just backing the players, it's backing his

01:31philosophy and backing his system. He says, I want to go there and play our game. I don't

01:35want to go there and defend and try and drag a point. I want to go there and try and have

01:39quality when Wolves do have possession. He knows Liverpool have a lot of possession.

01:42When Wolves do get the ball, what can they do with it that is going to hurt Liverpool?

01:45They have their own quality, they have their own threats that they can impose on the home

01:49team. So I do like that philosophy. I do like that approach because he's coming into

01:53it optimistic and not pessimistic. And I think that's the way you have to approach it. Wolves

01:57have got nothing to lose going to Anfield. Everyone expects them to lose the game. And

02:00you go there and you try and play your game and try and win it.

02:02He's giving the players confidence. He's giving them a store to set out for them to play their

02:07own game. And he actually talked in the press conference about, you know, I've taken a while

02:12for players to learn their positions, learn their roles in this side. And now they can

02:16almost enjoy their football. They can not relax, but you know, almost like the hard

02:19work's been done. Now they can express themselves. And he seemed quite excited about that.

02:23Yeah, I think so. He was in good spirits. He was on good form. He described himself

02:29at one point as a poet. A poet? Yes, I love that.

02:32That's a little bit of a laugh. Yeah, I think...

02:33The Portuguese Samuel Keats. Great, great.

02:37Any more poets that you've got? A-level English?

02:39Didn't do it, did you?

02:40Well, I am from Warwickshire, so of course he's got the Bard himself.

02:44Who?

02:45The Bard.

02:46Yes, William Shakespeare.

02:47Oh, okay.

02:48There you go, look.

02:49A-level stuff, mate.

02:50Anyway, moving on. Football.

02:52It's raining quickly.

02:53It's horrible, isn't it? Yeah, look, when Wolves win games, it starts to feel good.

03:00But it's about when Wolves are struggling and Wolves are down there, what the players

03:03can do. They're still in a fight. Liverpool, yes, a tough game, but it's an opportunity.

03:07You have to see it that way. Do we expect Wolves to get anything? No, but no-one expects

03:12Wolves to get anything.

03:13No.

03:14It's a good position to be in, because you exceed expectations if you get anything other

03:17than a loss. It's an opportunity, and if the players go out there and perform like they

03:21can, they are good enough to get something.

03:22Yeah, look, and Liverpool are in the back of that disappointing 98th-minute James Tarkovsky

03:27wonder goal, I guess, so they'll be frustrated and they'll be firing at the top of the table.

03:30But, like you say, Wolves do get one or two surprises a season, you never know. In terms

03:36of team news, Jürgen Strang, Larsson and Hwang Hee-chan with the injury doubts, how

03:40are they? Will they be available for Sunday?

03:42No, is the short answer, so a little bit more detail on those two. Larsson is expected to

03:46be back into training tomorrow, which will be Saturday, obviously before the game on

03:49Sunday, but they won't risk him, according to Pereira, for the Liverpool game, but they

03:53expect him to be in the squad. You can imagine on the bench for Bournemouth away in the league

03:58the following weekend. And with Hwang not serious, both of them are hand-strings by

04:02the way, with Hwang not serious but still significant enough where the next two or three

04:07games I expect him to be out. So that will be Liverpool, Bournemouth in the league, Fulham

04:11in the league mid-week. Because that's a mid-week game, Bournemouth in the cup might

04:15be a struggle for him as well. And hopefully, if he recovers well, and he has had history

04:21with hamstrings and other injuries, he'll be back for the game just after that, which

04:26will be Everton at home. Which obviously is a big game. So yeah, it's disappointing to

04:32lose two forwards, but hopefully Wolves will be full strength apart from that.

04:36Yeah, I mean, you said that Strang and Larsson, like you say, will probably be back for Bournemouth,

04:39which is good news. At the same time, when you look at Anfield as a free hit, maybe it's

04:42not the worst game to miss, you'd have thought. If he can be back in the starting line for

04:47Bournemouth away, that's probably a game where Wolves will look to have a better chance of

04:51getting points, at least, although it's a difficult game. In terms of two of the new

04:54signings, we saw one of them, didn't we, in Marcel Monezzi. Brilliant cameo, half an hour,

04:59could have scored two or three goals. Do you feel like he could be involved and maybe from

05:03the start on Sunday, or will this be a bit too soon? He did talk potentially about a

05:07two and maybe a three.

05:08Yeah, he started to hint a little bit that he could see a change in terms of having a

05:12three in Anfield and Monezzi, he sees a sort of box-to-box, slightly more aggressive attacking

05:16option. I could see a world, particularly with his physicality and what he offers, where

05:21he does actually come into this team. I've still predicted he won't, I'm going to stick

05:24with my prediction, but speaking to Pereira there and getting a feel for what his thoughts

05:28are, that's certainly an option. I think with Ziga, I would suspect he's on the bench at

05:32Liverpool, but he's a player that's now providing competition for Matt Doherty, a player that

05:37brings that extra option.

05:41There's so many options now, it's great really, isn't it?

05:44Yeah, exactly, and that's only going to help, especially with the situation with Craig Dawson

05:47obviously not involved anymore. So, to have all those options, to have all those players

05:52available can only be a good thing for this team, because as I say, and I keep having

05:56to come back to it, it all feels great after two wins, but they're still in a scrap, they're

05:59still in a dogfight.

06:00Yeah, of course. In terms of Monezzi, do you see him being used as that box-to-box? Do

06:04you feel he's almost playing ahead of Andre and João Gomes, or very much in a central

06:08three, and it's just whoever goes forward, the other two hold back a little bit?

06:11Yeah, he can definitely play in the two obviously as well, but he will be that sort of box-to-box

06:15option. Andre's very much that six, isn't he? You look at the way that Andre and João

06:18Gomes play when they do play in a two, João Gomes has more of a licence to play, and that

06:22will be what Monezzi does, whether it's a two or whether it's a three. So, it brings

06:26great competition, that midfield is a strong, strong department at the moment.

06:29And Pereira said that, you know, we've got options, even though we're without two number

06:33nines in Huang Yichang and Jorgen Stranlarsson, he has got options there. I wonder if we'll

06:37see Guedes, whether we'll see Pablo Sarabia, who obviously missed the game against Blackburn,

06:41or didn't start, and Cunha up front, or he might go for three and maybe just play Cunha

06:47and Guedes? It's an interesting one, isn't it?

06:50Yeah, it's tough. My prediction is I've gone with Sarabia, Guedes, Cunha, Guedes, yeah.

06:56But I can see a world where you do play the netting in that midfield, you've probably

07:00dropped Sarabia, that's exactly what you said, of those three, and you play Guedes

07:04and Cunha in a two, that's got legs as well. The Monezzi situation is interesting, isn't

07:09it? Because I wonder if, because he's so unknown, like no one really knows about him,

07:13do they? Like apart from half an hour, whether it might spring a surprise and play him, because

07:17you can't do a lot of scouting on him going into the game.

07:19Equally as well, you can play Balagaz in that wide, or playing slightly more centrally in

07:25a three as well. So, he does have options to switch it up, considering it's Anfield,

07:29considering it's the league leaders, it feels like it's the kind of week that he probably

07:32would do that. Albeit, up until the last week or two, he hasn't really shown any signs of

07:37potentially switching, so it could easily just be mind games in there. He could be talking

07:40about switching to a three midfield, and it could easily be the two that we've expected

07:43all along, but either way...

07:44Can he end goal?

07:45I don't think so, no disrespect to him, I don't think so. But Wolves have got options,

07:49and that's a good thing. Yes, they're without Larssen, yes, they're without Kuang, but they've

07:52got quality and in-depth, albeit maybe that number nine slot is the only one where they

07:59don't have a lot of options. But otherwise, they've got quality players that are, at the

08:02moment, performing. And if you've got a defence that are performing so well like they are

08:05at the moment, they can keep Salah quiet. It's not going to be easy, but if I'm going

08:10to back anyone to do it, it's Agbidu, it's Totti, it's Doc.

08:12Agbidu's going through, Doc's going through, everyone's going through him, I love it.

08:16Yeah, it won't be my captain on Sunday, that's for certain, I'm fantastic.

08:20Give me the starting team.

08:22So, I'm going to go with what I've stuck with beforehand, but I'm not 100%, so let's go with

08:26Sarangol, Samedo, Doc, Agbidu, Totti, Ait Nouri, André Jaumez. I'm going to go for the three on

08:34top, Stradivari, Guedes, Kunya.

08:36Yes, yes, okay. I'm going to say there's a little bit of a Marchal performance.

08:41Bring it on.

08:42Love to see it. Scoreline?

08:45Well, you went 2-1, did you?

08:48Oh, wait, you do it.

08:49Oh no, you went 3-0. I went 3-1. Obviously, both dwarves.

08:54Obviously.

08:54Yeah, yeah, yeah.

08:55For the build-up of this one, make sure you log on to expressandstyle.com. We'll see you on Sunday.

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