4-3-3: Klopp To Make 7 Changes | Expected Liverpool XI vs Stoke

Liverpool will have one eye on their Champions League semi-final with Roma when they welcome Stoke to Anfield on Saturday lunchtime.

Here is the side I think Jurgen Klopp will select for the game:

Goalkeeper: Loris Karius had a few nervy moments against Roma in midweek but he’s Klopp’s No.1 and is expected to keep his place ahead of Simon Mignolet this weekend.

Defence: We should see some changes in defence as Klopp is likely to rest his first choice back four meaning Trent Alexander-Arnold, Virgil van Dijk and Andrew Robertson should all be given the night off.

Nathaniel Clyne could get another run out at right-back, Alberto Moreno should start on the left and Ragnar Klavan is likely to come in to the middle of defence for Virgil van Dijk.

Klopp has more options at the back as Joe Gomez is also available again so he could come in for Dejan Lovren – who came under fire once again for his part in Roma’s first goal.

Midfield: However, Klopp has very few options to rotate in midfield with injuries mounting in the middle of the park so it’s going to be interesting to see who gets the nod.

Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain has been ruled out for the rest of the season after suffering a knee ligament injury against Roma while Emre Can and Adam Lallana are also struggling to play again this season.

Therefore, if Klopp resists the temptation to play the kids, we should see James Milner, Georgino Wijnaldum and Jordan Henderson start in midfield against Stoke.

Attack: Liverpool are sweating on the fitness of Sadio Mane after he was sent to have scans on an knock he picked up against Roma so the Senegal star is unlikely to be risked this weekend.

Roberto Firmino should also be given a breather with Dominic Solanke coming in to the attack while Danny Ings should also get another chance to impress following his goal against West Brom last week.

Mohamed Salah continued his sensational season with another two goals on Tuesday night and he may start on Saturday as he looks to tighten his grip on the Golden Boot.

Here is how we think Liverpool will line up:

Robertson Confident Liverpool Can Score Goals at Roma

Roma will be holding out hope of a second miracle comeback in the Champions League but after dumping Barcelona out in a wild second leg at the Stadio Olimpico last round it won’t be so easy to do it again against a Liverpool side expecting a response.

So says Liverpool left back Andy Robertson, who insists that Liverpool will be ready for Roma to come at them hard next Manchester City as proof that when the time comes they’ll be ready for it.

Wednesday—and pointed to their own success in the last round against

“They were 4-1 down from the first leg and everyone was saying it was just a standard game for Barcelona to go through,” he noted, “but they put on an unbelievable performance at their place to put three goals past one of the best, if not the best, teams in Europe.

“To score four goals against Barcelona over two legs is fantastic. But we also know what we did in our tie. We got the better of Manchester City by beating them twice, so hopefully we can stand up to their strengths and exploit their weaknesses.”

Roma will be tough at home, and they’ve consistently managed to get the results they need this season in Europe even when they look out of it—not just against Barcelona but edging Shakhtar on away goals in the Round of 16 and even back in the groups.

Yet for all the confidence those past results will give them, not even Barcelona have the attacking firepower this season’s Liverpool side does. This Liverpool side won’t make the mistake they did setting up to see out their first leg advantage, either.

This Liverpool side will push back in attack, looking to exploit the space behind on the counter as Roma commit forward knowing they will need at least three goals to have a chance of advancing. And so Roma will believe—but so too will the Reds.

“We’ve scored a lot of goals away from home in Europe this season,” Robertson added. “We drew in Sevilla but we still scored three goals there. We scored another five in Porto and seven in Maribor, so we can take a lot of confidence from that.”

Not Possible! Cristiano pleads with Real to sign £200m Liverpool star over Neymar

Real Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo has reportedly told the LaLiga side to sign a £200m Premier League star instead of Neymar.

According to Spanish outlet Don Balon, the Portuguese international would prefer Real to go after Liverpool sensation Mo Salah instead of PSG winger Neymar.

The report claims that Ronaldo has ambitions of being the permanent No.9 at the Bernabeu, and believes that Salah would be more of an ‘ally’ than a rival.

On the other hand, he feels that Brazil international Neymar could potentially challenge his position as the leader of the team, hence why the 33-year-old would rather Florentino Perez went after Salah.

The Madrid president is apparently willing to accept Ronaldo’s wishes and pursue the Egypt international this summer over Neymar.

The Daily Mail suggested on Thursday though that Salah will not be sold this summer, even if Real place a £200m offer on the table.

The player’s value has soared since and Liverpool are desperate to improve his terms in a bid to keep hold of the player, who has second time around taken the Premier League by storm.

The report claims the club have a strong relationship with Salah’s agent, Ramy Abbas, and that the terms of his contract will be reviewed as a matter of urgency.

COMPLETE TEAM WORK HELPS LIVERPOOL FORWARDS

Following the yesterday semi final match between Liverpool FC and AS Roma, we can understand that Liverpool FC won the match with 5-2 given them 3 goals aggregate.

Liverpool played the Tuesday night match with best performance come from MO SALLAH , Saido Mane and stunning strike from Roberto Firmino.

Liverpool performance is not surprising because of their strong team work led by Captain Henderson  (Hendo), James Milner, Van Dijk, Alexandra Arnold, Robertson and Liverpool super replacement for "Chamberlain" Geoginio Widjnadlum.  

Liverpool is expected to travel to Italian Capital "ROME" on Wednesday Next week where the team to triumph through the final stage in Kiev will be determine. 

Mohamed Salah's brilliance has left Cristiano Ronaldo in an unfamiliar position... Real Madrid's star man is now one goal behind and he will be desperate to get back to the No 1 spot.

Cristiano Ronaldo loves a challenge. Competition with Lionel Messi has been keeping him young for years. 

On Tuesday night he watched Mohamed Salah overtake him in goals scored this season and he will be more motivated than ever to make it 12 straight games scoring – at least one goal against Bayern and he will be back on level terms with the Liverpool forward.

Salah now has 43 goals in 47 games. Ronaldo has 42 in 39. He is still out in front in the Champions League with 15 goals this season but he wants it all – another Champions League winners medal, another Golden Shoe, and to be able to say when he sits down with Florentino Perez to finalise his new contract at the end of the season, that he has outscored everyone in football for yet another season.

Irrepressible Mohamed Salah fires five-star Liverpool until late Roma double raises old doubts

Match Summary

Liverpool 5 - 2 Roma

Champions League24/04/2018 19:45

Referee: Dr. Felix Brych|Venue: Anfield|Attendance: 51,236

• Mohamed Salah35'
• Mohamed Salah45'
• Sadio Mané56'
• Roberto Firmino61'
• Roberto Firmino68'

• Edin Dzeko81'
• Diego Perotti85'

Jurgen Klopp called it “all-inclusive football”, or in other words a night when Anfield witnessed the demolition of Roma followed by what they hope was not a chilling sequel, that being the start of another momentous comeback when these two clubs reconvene for the second leg next Wednesday.

This is already a remarkable Champions League semi-final and quite how Roma still have a faint chance for the second leg is hard to understand when Eusebio Di Francesco’s players mostly looked a team with the wrong tactics, against the wrong opponents on the wrong night. At five goals down they had been cut to pieces by one man in particular, the footballer who may yet turn out to be the outstanding individual in this Champions League season and many more to come.

Mohamed Salah bewitched Roma with two goals and two assists, and for the bits that even he might consider impossible, there was an away defence willing to wave the 43-goal attacker through the gaps. Others have defended Salah with their lives, because that is the only way to play against him, but his former club left him under the responsibility of the Brazilian defender Juan Jesus who by the end needed saving from himself.

By the time Salah was substituted, Liverpool had long since smelled blood and been clinical with the chances they had created - two further goals for Roberto Firmino and one for Sadio Mane, and a place in the final in Kiev on May 26 looked inevitable. Kevin Strootman approached his bench and seemed to be asking Di Francesco in bald terms what the hell his manager thought he was doing and given that Roma were trying to stop Salah with Jesus and a prayer that seemed a fair question.

Salah walked off the pitch at 75 minutes, having acknowledged his own contribution with the humility of a man who clearly felt that he had wrought more than enough pain on former friends without ostentatious goal celebrations. Perhaps he took with him the aura of Liverpool’s invincibility or perhaps Klopp’s team were always destined to tire at the end of a tie that they controlled on 75 minutes.

The ball that Radja Nainggolan clipped over the head of Dejan Lovren for Edin Dzeko to chest down and score was, Klopp said, one of those things that can happen on nights like these in spite of what he regarded as a brilliant performance from his Croatian. The penalty that referee Felix Brych awarded for James Milner’s handball was the wrong decision, Klopp said, but the substitute Diego Perotti buried his penalty with rather more confidence than those Roma players of in the 1984 final.

Klopp said that he found it hard to let his mood fly too high although that was nothing to do with Roma’s two goals, and rather more to do with the fact that Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain was carried off on a stretcher in the first half with what is expected to be a serious injury to his right knee. It seems not a question of whether he will be at the World Cup finals but whether he will even be back in time for next season.

A cruel blow for the young Englishman who has done so well to establish himself in Gareth Southgate’s plans, not to mention this great ending that Liverpool’s season is promising. The second leg alone is set up to be one of the classics with Roma trailing Liverpool by three goals, the same margin from which they reeled in Barcelona in the previous round. Klopp pointed out that this Liverpool team are not Barcelona, “who won it all” and was eager to emphasise that the appetite not to mess this up burns stronger than usual.

It was a commanding result but it could have been so much better after a first half which Roma started positively, clearly in a mind to score a goal and coming very close to doing so. Later their manager Di Francesco would seek to blame the lapses in the second half on his players failing “to win their duels” as if mindful that his own tactics were likely to be identified as the chief reason why they were so out of their depth.

They had the first major chance, a shot from the former Manchester City man Aleksandar Kolarov who struck a left-footed drive on 18 minutes that Loris Karius seemed to lose mid-flight and only managed to push onto his own bar – and then at last Salah took over.

Mane had three sights of goal in the first half, from which he missed the first two and then scored the third, having strayed offside in the build-up. The first two came within a minute of one another and when the second was also dispatched over the bar there was chastisement in the groan from the home fans which Klopp immediately picked up on. He turned to them and demanded they encourage the team.

At the centre of those two chances was the excellent Firmino with that magnetic touch of his and he would be key in setting up Salah’s second. In the 36th minute, Salah was inside the box on the right side again with enough space to pick his spot, striking such a good shot that goalkeeper Alisson was nowhere near it. For his second, Salah guided the ball into the path of Firmino, the Brazilian holding off Kostas Manolas and freeing his team-mate Salah to run clear and lift a shot over Alisson that bounced delicately into the Roma goal.

If the end of the first half had been decided by the brilliance of Salah then the start of the second was something much worse for Roma, the proverbial bloodbath. The third and fourth goals of the night were created by Salah, both times released down the right wing and carefully picking his pass for chances that Mane and then Firmino could not miss. Roma conceded the fifth direct from James Milner’s corner which Firmino nodded past Alisson.

Neither of the two teams who have previously scored five in a Champions League semi-final first leg in the history of this competition have failed to progress to the final. Roma’s two goals came later with Salah off the pitch, and while they changed the mood in Anfield at the final whistle, the belief seems to prevail that when Salah is on the pitch then anything is possible.

‘Incredible’ – Liverpool fans rave over surprise game changer v Roma (not Salah)

Liverpool fans have been left raving over the performance of midfielder Georginio Wijnaldum on social media after he played a surprise starring role in the 5-2 win over Roma in the Champions League on Tuesday night.

The Reds took a huge step towards reaching the final in Kiev this season after thrashing the Italian giants at Anfield, former Roma star Mohamed Salah joined by Roberto Firmino in netting twice, while Sadio Mane also found his way onto the score sheet.

However, the match was somewhat marred by an early, and potentially serious, injury to Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, which led to him being substituted for Wijnaldum before the 20 minute mark.

The Dutchman’s arrival seemed to

spark some immediate energy into the Reds as he offered an attacking threat in comparison to central counterparts James Milner and Jordan Henderson – although perhaps should have netted himself with an opportunity from six yards out.

Despite Salah grabbing all the headlines with a brace of both goals and assists, Wijnaldum was also widely heralded by the Liverpool faithful on Twitter, with many crediting his ability to change the game when Jurgen Klopp needed to call on him.

SENATE STOLEN MACE RECOVERED BY POLICE FORCE

The Nigeria Police Force said it had recovered the Mace stolen from the chambers of the Senate by unidentified persons.

On Wednesday ,suspected thugs invaded the senate chambers during plenary and carted away the mace.

A statement by the Deputy Force Spokesman, SP Aremu Adeniran, said that the mace was abandoned under the flyover before the city gate in Abuja where a passerby saw it and alerted the police.

He said that following the ugly incident, the Inspector-General of Police, Mr Ibrahim Idris had ordered the FCT Police Command to beef-up security at the National Assembly.

He said that investigation into the incident was still ongoing to bring the perpetrators to justice.

The deputy spokesman commended Abuja residents, especially motorists, for their cooperation during the rigorous stop and search operation for the recovery of the mace.

Adeniran said that the commitment of the police to guarantee protection of lives and property and sustain democracy in the country remained unequivocal and unwavering.

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PRESIDENT BUHARI IN TROUBLE OVER COURT CASE.

 It was gathered that a Nigerian lawyer, Chyma Anthony, has dragged President Muhammadu Buhari, the National Assembly and the Attorney General of the Federation, (AGF) Ibrahim Malami, to a federal high court in Abuja, over the move by the lawmakers to change election sequence.

Also joined in the suit are, the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, Speaker of House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

Among other things, the lawyer is demanding that the court determine whether the decision by the National Assembly to usurp the powers of the INEC to fix the dates of election to the House of Assembly and the office of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, does not contravene the provisions of the 1999 Constitution.

In the suit numbered FHC/ABJ/CS/222/18, the plaintiff in a general form of originating summons, prayed the court to order the defendants to cause an appearance to be entered for them in defense of what he described as ‘moves made by the defendants that have injured and affected him.’

Supporting his case with a 16 paragraph affidavit, the plaintiff further prayed the court to determine whether by the combined effect of the provisions of Sections 76 and 132 of the 1999 Constitution (as amended), the National Assembly is empowered to take away from INEC, the constitutional powers bestowed on it to fix the respective dates for the National Assembly and presidential elections without amending the relevant provisions of the Constitution.

The relief sought by the plaintiff includes that the court should issue a declaration stating that by the combined effect of the provisions of Sections 76 and 132 of the Constitution, the INEC and not the National Assembly, is the only body authorized to fix the respective dates for elections into the both houses of the National Assembly and the office of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, and that the powers conferred on INEC by the Constitution cannot be taken away from it by the National Assembly.

PRESIDENT BUHARI PLANS DEATH !!!

President Muhammadu Buhari, Tuesday, said his administration is determined to end the ongoing terrorist activities in Nigeria.

According to him, his administration had placed major premium on strengthening intelligence gathering capacity with the aim of flushing terrorists away from the shores of this country.

Muhammadu Buhari said in his word according to his Vice, Professor Yemi Osinbajo that government would have a major advantage over terrorists through intelligence gathering and sharing.

Vice, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, gave the statement while addressing the 8th National Security Seminar 2018 of the Alumni Association of the National Defence College (NDC) inAbuja.

The theme of the seminar is “Fighting Tomorrow’s warfare Today.”

According to him, “One current focus is the strengthening of Nigeria’s intelligence gathering capacity. For this to happen, intelligence gathering must not be seen as solely a task for law enforcement agencies. It is a task that must involve every citizen, every community.”

“And at the level of the military and intelligence agencies, intelligence-sharing must become the rule and not the exception,’’ he stated.

“Land mass on that scale is unquestionably a delight for terrorists and their unconventional tactics.

“The primary advantage that the Government should have over them is in intelligence gathering; the ability to expertly assemble the pieces of various puzzles together in order to be able to progressively contain and limit terrorism.

“This necessity of robust intelligence gathering underlies every one of our security challenges in Nigeria, not just terrorism but also clashes between herdsmen and farmers, cattle rustling, armed banditry, cultism and militancy.

“In the herdsmen/farmer crisis, we have seen that herdsmen attackers have included armed confederate from neighbouring North African countries, especially Libyawhich has in the past few years been a repository of small arms.

“We must significantly upgrade our capacity to collect intelligence, as well as build a culture of sharing it amongst our military and law enforcement agencies in a timely manner.

“We must also increasingly depend on cutting-edge technology to make this task easier.

“Cutting-edge technology will allow you to better anticipate and predict the antics of terrorists, increase your capacity to surprise them before they surprise us.

“And it will make it far less likely that tragic recent events like Dapchi and Rann will ever happen again.”

Buhari also gave three solutions to solving insurgency in the country to include:

“It is first to win the minds of young men and women fed with the false ideologies that promote terrorism.

“Second is to continuously address the material conditions that make it attractive for some young men and women to take up arms against innocent people as an option for economic survival.

“Third is to rebuild and secure the communities destroyed by terrorist acts; the President has asked me to Chair an inter-ministerial team to plan and implement the physical and social rebuilding of such communities.

“You have displayed remarkable bravery and professionalism and we are immensely proud of your sacrifice and all that you have achieved on our behalf.”

AFE BABALOLA AGAIN ?

Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD), has won yet another national acclaim as the University of the Year Award 2017. This time around, it is from Daily Asset Newspapers which gave the Award at its maiden Annual Awards and Lecture of Daily Asset with the theme “Democratic Leadership: Imperative for Peace, Justice and Development in Nigeria” which took place at NICON Luxury Hotel, Abuja.

In a letter conveying the cheering news dated December 27, 2017, Dr. Cletus Akwaya, the Publisher/Editor-in-Chief of the newspapers, said: “On behalf of the Board, Management and staff of the Asset Newspapers Limited (Publishers of Daily Asset Newspapers), we are pleased to inform you of the decision of the Editorial Board to nominate Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti, for the Daily Asset University of the Year Award 2017. The nomination of your university for this award was without (any) influence whatsoever from any quarters as it was purely based on merit”.

Justifying the rationale for the award, Akwaya added: “According to the National Universities Commission (NUC), the country today has no fewer than 162 universities. Of this figure, 40 are federal universities, 46 are owned by states while private universities account for 74. Standing proudly tall among them is a private university, Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State, which is a non-for-profit private university founded by renowned Lawyer, Senior Advocate and philanthropist, Aare Afe Babalola, in 2009.

“The university offers academic programmes in six colleges: College of Sciences, College of Law, College of Engineering, College of Social & Management, College of Medicine & Health Sciences and College of Post-graduate Studies. It graduated its first set of students on October 21, 2013. Afe Babalola University holds the reputation for being one of the few Nigerian universities to have commenced academic works on its permanent site.

“What is more, at a time most universities are finding it difficult to expand, ABUAD has built its own ultra-modern 400-bed Multi System Hospital, reputed to be one of the best of its kind in Nigeria. The university is reputed for its sterling academic programmes and discipline which has made it possible by the fact that all its students are resident on campus.

“Here is a university that does not have any history of cultism in any shape or form as a result of strict enforcement of discipline. The growing reputation and stature of the university is made possible by its Founder, Aare Afe Babalola. For being a world-class university operated on the principle of not-for profit and the continuous investment towards its expansion to enhance the country’s educational development. The Daily Asset Board of Editors has chosen Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti as the University of the Year 2017″.

The place of the Multi System Hospital has been corroborated by top-rate medical educators like Prof. Isaac Folorunso Adewole, the Minister for Health, who said: “This hospital will offer us what we hitherto believe cannot happen in this country. It will also improve the poor health indicators in Nigeria. With what I have seen here today, this hospital matches the best in the world and it will certainly put an end to medical tourism outside Nigeria.”

Prof. Temitope Alonge, the Chief Medical Director (CMD), University Teaching Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, said: “I have worked in many hospitals both here in Nigeria and in Europe. This hospital beats most hospitals where I have worked in Europe. This surely will be the answer to outward medical tourism. With what is here in this hospital, there is no reason why any of our doctors should want to go abroad for their Sabbatical. All they need is here.”

Presenting the Award to the Provost, College of Sciences, Prof. Abiodun Ojo, who represented Babalola at the event, the Bauchi State Governor Mohammed A. Abubakar, implored other wealthy Nigerians to borrow a leaf from Aare Afe Babalola, who has ploughed his all into establishing one of the best universities in Nigeria in his self-impose assignment of entrenching quality and functional education in Nigeria.

Former Niger State Governor Muazu Babangida Aliyu, who chaired the occasion, caused a mild stir at the ceremony, when he requested Babalola, who was represented by Prof. Ojo to present the Governor of the Year 2017 Award to Governor Abubakar of Bauchi State. Babangida Aliyu, a true friend of ABUAD was operating on the premise that he was not “qualified” to present such a high-pitch Award to Abubakar when Babalola was present, albeit in a representative capacity.

An obviously elated Babalola thanked the management of Daily Asset Newspapers for the honour done to his nine-year old university which has been carting home numerous awards from all fronts, adding that the Award was a call to duty or a call to more duty, a catalyst that will propel, ginger, inspire and encourage the university to want to do more now and in future. He expressed his happiness that people and organisations around the world are noticing and appreciating what his university has been doing since it commenced academic works on January 4, 2010.

BY:  Tunde Olofintila

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