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Liverpool v Wolves - Liam Keen and Nathan Judah match preview
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14/02/2025
Liverpool v Wolves - Liam Keen and Nathan Judah match preview
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Hello, Nathan Judah, I'm here with world supporter Mr. Liam Keane. Liam, it's Friday, that means
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pre-match press conference time, that means Mr. Vito Pereira time, as we head to the easy
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game at Anfield on Sunday, where they will host, or they will face, league leaders Liverpool.
00:26
In terms of, we all know how good Liverpool are, but I like the way that Pereira talked,
00:31
he said, look, they're a great side, but I'm not interested in Liverpool, I'm interested
00:35
in Wolves. To me, he said, as the van goes by, to me, it's the loudest van in the world.
00:40
It is, yeah, old as well. My team, my players, my players are the best players in the world
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and I like that, he backs his plays, he's more interested in the team that he's playing
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and the squad that he's taking to Liverpool than the Liverpool players themselves and
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I like that philosophy. Yeah, I mean, maybe we'll look back on it in... 6-0 defeat? Shouldn't
01:01
it be Mark Staller? Maybe we'll look back on it in 48 hours time and think, you know,
01:07
it's all well and good saying that, but you've got to find the balance between keeping...
01:09
And I'm sure he is, but he was more messaged about his guys. And I think, yeah, the sort
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of public message that you put out there of backing your players, of being positive, saying
01:21
yes, Liverpool are one of the best teams in Europe, but these players at Wolves are
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the best players in the world because they're my players and I want to do well, I want to
01:27
go there. Back your players. And it's not just backing the players, it's backing his
01:31
philosophy and backing his system. He says, I want to go there and play our game. I don't
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want to go there and defend and try and drag a point. I want to go there and try and have
01:39
quality when Wolves do have possession. He knows Liverpool have a lot of possession.
01:42
When Wolves do get the ball, what can they do with it that is going to hurt Liverpool?
01:45
They have their own quality, they have their own threats that they can impose on the home
01:49
team. So I do like that philosophy. I do like that approach because he's coming into
01:53
it optimistic and not pessimistic. And I think that's the way you have to approach it. Wolves
01:57
have got nothing to lose going to Anfield. Everyone expects them to lose the game. And
02:00
you go there and you try and play your game and try and win it.
02:02
He's giving the players confidence. He's giving them a store to set out for them to play their
02:07
own game. And he actually talked in the press conference about, you know, I've taken a while
02:12
for players to learn their positions, learn their roles in this side. And now they can
02:16
almost enjoy their football. They can not relax, but you know, almost like the hard
02:19
work's been done. Now they can express themselves. And he seemed quite excited about that.
02:23
Yeah, I think so. He was in good spirits. He was on good form. He described himself
02:29
at one point as a poet. A poet? Yes, I love that.
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That's a little bit of a laugh. Yeah, I think...
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The Portuguese Samuel Keats. Great, great.
02:37
Any more poets that you've got? A-level English?
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Didn't do it, did you?
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Well, I am from Warwickshire, so of course he's got the Bard himself.
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Who?
02:45
The Bard.
02:46
Yes, William Shakespeare.
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Oh, okay.
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There you go, look.
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A-level stuff, mate.
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Anyway, moving on. Football.
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It's raining quickly.
02:53
It's horrible, isn't it? Yeah, look, when Wolves win games, it starts to feel good.
03:00
But it's about when Wolves are struggling and Wolves are down there, what the players
03:03
can do. They're still in a fight. Liverpool, yes, a tough game, but it's an opportunity.
03:07
You have to see it that way. Do we expect Wolves to get anything? No, but no-one expects
03:12
Wolves to get anything.
03:13
No.
03:14
It's a good position to be in, because you exceed expectations if you get anything other
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than a loss. It's an opportunity, and if the players go out there and perform like they
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can, they are good enough to get something.
03:22
Yeah, look, and Liverpool are in the back of that disappointing 98th-minute James Tarkovsky
03:27
wonder goal, I guess, so they'll be frustrated and they'll be firing at the top of the table.
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But, like you say, Wolves do get one or two surprises a season, you never know. In terms
03:36
of team news, Jürgen Strang, Larsson and Hwang Hee-chan with the injury doubts, how
03:40
are they? Will they be available for Sunday?
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No, is the short answer, so a little bit more detail on those two. Larsson is expected to
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be back into training tomorrow, which will be Saturday, obviously before the game on
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Sunday, but they won't risk him, according to Pereira, for the Liverpool game, but they
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expect him to be in the squad. You can imagine on the bench for Bournemouth away in the league
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the following weekend. And with Hwang not serious, both of them are hand-strings by
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the way, with Hwang not serious but still significant enough where the next two or three
04:07
games I expect him to be out. So that will be Liverpool, Bournemouth in the league, Fulham
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in the league mid-week. Because that's a mid-week game, Bournemouth in the cup might
04:15
be a struggle for him as well. And hopefully, if he recovers well, and he has had history
04:21
with hamstrings and other injuries, he'll be back for the game just after that, which
04:26
will be Everton at home. Which obviously is a big game. So yeah, it's disappointing to
04:32
lose two forwards, but hopefully Wolves will be full strength apart from that.
04:36
Yeah, I mean, you said that Strang and Larsson, like you say, will probably be back for Bournemouth,
04:39
which is good news. At the same time, when you look at Anfield as a free hit, maybe it's
04:42
not the worst game to miss, you'd have thought. If he can be back in the starting line for
04:47
Bournemouth away, that's probably a game where Wolves will look to have a better chance of
04:51
getting points, at least, although it's a difficult game. In terms of two of the new
04:54
signings, we saw one of them, didn't we, in Marcel Monezzi. Brilliant cameo, half an hour,
04:59
could have scored two or three goals. Do you feel like he could be involved and maybe from
05:03
the start on Sunday, or will this be a bit too soon? He did talk potentially about a
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two and maybe a three.
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Yeah, he started to hint a little bit that he could see a change in terms of having a
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three in Anfield and Monezzi, he sees a sort of box-to-box, slightly more aggressive attacking
05:16
option. I could see a world, particularly with his physicality and what he offers, where
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he does actually come into this team. I've still predicted he won't, I'm going to stick
05:24
with my prediction, but speaking to Pereira there and getting a feel for what his thoughts
05:28
are, that's certainly an option. I think with Ziga, I would suspect he's on the bench at
05:32
Liverpool, but he's a player that's now providing competition for Matt Doherty, a player that
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brings that extra option.
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There's so many options now, it's great really, isn't it?
05:44
Yeah, exactly, and that's only going to help, especially with the situation with Craig Dawson
05:47
obviously not involved anymore. So, to have all those options, to have all those players
05:52
available can only be a good thing for this team, because as I say, and I keep having
05:56
to come back to it, it all feels great after two wins, but they're still in a scrap, they're
05:59
still in a dogfight.
06:00
Yeah, of course. In terms of Monezzi, do you see him being used as that box-to-box? Do
06:04
you feel he's almost playing ahead of Andre and João Gomes, or very much in a central
06:08
three, and it's just whoever goes forward, the other two hold back a little bit?
06:11
Yeah, he can definitely play in the two obviously as well, but he will be that sort of box-to-box
06:15
option. Andre's very much that six, isn't he? You look at the way that Andre and João
06:18
Gomes play when they do play in a two, João Gomes has more of a licence to play, and that
06:22
will be what Monezzi does, whether it's a two or whether it's a three. So, it brings
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great competition, that midfield is a strong, strong department at the moment.
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And Pereira said that, you know, we've got options, even though we're without two number
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nines in Huang Yichang and Jorgen Stranlarsson, he has got options there. I wonder if we'll
06:37
see Guedes, whether we'll see Pablo Sarabia, who obviously missed the game against Blackburn,
06:41
or didn't start, and Cunha up front, or he might go for three and maybe just play Cunha
06:47
and Guedes? It's an interesting one, isn't it?
06:50
Yeah, it's tough. My prediction is I've gone with Sarabia, Guedes, Cunha, Guedes, yeah.
06:56
But I can see a world where you do play the netting in that midfield, you've probably
07:00
dropped Sarabia, that's exactly what you said, of those three, and you play Guedes
07:04
and Cunha in a two, that's got legs as well. The Monezzi situation is interesting, isn't
07:09
it? Because I wonder if, because he's so unknown, like no one really knows about him,
07:13
do they? Like apart from half an hour, whether it might spring a surprise and play him, because
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you can't do a lot of scouting on him going into the game.
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Equally as well, you can play Balagaz in that wide, or playing slightly more centrally in
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a three as well. So, he does have options to switch it up, considering it's Anfield,
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considering it's the league leaders, it feels like it's the kind of week that he probably
07:32
would do that. Albeit, up until the last week or two, he hasn't really shown any signs of
07:37
potentially switching, so it could easily just be mind games in there. He could be talking
07:40
about switching to a three midfield, and it could easily be the two that we've expected
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all along, but either way...
07:44
Can he end goal?
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I don't think so, no disrespect to him, I don't think so. But Wolves have got options,
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and that's a good thing. Yes, they're without Larssen, yes, they're without Kuang, but they've
07:52
got quality and in-depth, albeit maybe that number nine slot is the only one where they
07:59
don't have a lot of options. But otherwise, they've got quality players that are, at the
08:02
moment, performing. And if you've got a defence that are performing so well like they are
08:05
at the moment, they can keep Salah quiet. It's not going to be easy, but if I'm going
08:10
to back anyone to do it, it's Agbidu, it's Totti, it's Doc.
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Agbidu's going through, Doc's going through, everyone's going through him, I love it.
08:16
Yeah, it won't be my captain on Sunday, that's for certain, I'm fantastic.
08:20
Give me the starting team.
08:22
So, I'm going to go with what I've stuck with beforehand, but I'm not 100%, so let's go with
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Sarangol, Samedo, Doc, Agbidu, Totti, Ait Nouri, André Jaumez. I'm going to go for the three on
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top, Stradivari, Guedes, Kunya.
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Yes, yes, okay. I'm going to say there's a little bit of a Marchal performance.
08:41
Bring it on.
08:42
Love to see it. Scoreline?
08:45
Well, you went 2-1, did you?
08:48
Oh, wait, you do it.
08:49
Oh no, you went 3-0. I went 3-1. Obviously, both dwarves.
08:54
Obviously.
08:54
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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For the build-up of this one, make sure you log on to expressandstyle.com. We'll see you on Sunday.
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