A cup final should always hold at least 55,000 as most teams would easily be able to fill up a stadium of that size l. Especially when you take into account of how many tickets are held back from the fans.


Why are such small stadiums picked for finals?

Too mentally and physically drained last night to post much but came back on to say that's the most complete performance I've seen from a Liverpool side for quite some time. Hardly a pass out of place or a challenge lost and even the defending was assured when the opposition got in. The crowd did their part too and it all added up to an immense, intimidating performance. As Jurgen Klopp says, if we can get that vibe going for home league games, it would be fantastic.

Sevilla are not going to poll over for us obviously but if we can repeat last night's intensity we've got one hell of a chance. Can't wait for the 18th.

What are your thoughts on Firmino? he was great last night he could be our best player, he has some lovely skill which we need.

And I can't believe I am saying keep Hendo out

Firmino is arguably our player of the season. Didn't get up to much under Rodgers, but under Klopp he's shone. Pulled us through our injury crisis in late winter with some excellent performances, and his stats speak for itself. 10 goals and 9 assists despite having a couple of injuries.

And his turn last night was ridiculous.

Yeh It was class I re watched it a few times that.

What is this Jordan Rossiter like? He's linked with Rangers.

I suspect if it were not for his injury, he'd have probably signed a new deal.

He's a combative energetic midfielder, who just gets stuck in.

He won't light up the pitch, but he's solid and reliable.

He would be a star in the SPL

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Hopefully that'll stop people speculating for a while or thinking he's got an attitude problem. There'll be people that won't accept it though, of course. There normally is.

Good news for those who have Freeview and not BT, the Europa league final is being shown live on the BT Showcase channel.

For any of you who never saw this, THIS is Klopp at his finest. With the fans after the match with Villarreal. Not the best quality video, but the best Klopp! Just love this man.

Studgey still needs to sharpen up. V Villareal he missed the first goal but luckily it went in off a defender, on the second the keeper very nearly saved it and on the third he missed but Lallana was there to scoop it in.

The decision to hire him just keeps getting better and better!

'Studgey'? Sounds a bit like Stodgy, very uncomplimentary for him. Regardless, he had a hand in all 3 goals, and we got them - that's what matters. He's getting sharper and as long as we get any balls into the back of the net through his intervention it's a +. VR are renowned for their solid defence and fast breakaways, as a team we did extremely well, and Sturridge did all he had to for a win.

Good to know, sounds exactly what we need. Frank McParland is our head of recruitment and used to work for Liverpool so he must rate the guy.

He's definitely ready for first team football.

He's just not going to get it at Liverpool.

The lad has scored 12 goals in 23 appearances this season, many of which were off the bench. Let's not pretend he's been poor yeah?

There could be a tendency to reason like that - at times i do myself when i see him have poor shots or not pass when he should or miss chances but when I think it through I realise that I am wrong.

Why? - cos you have to look at the goal return we get from him and it is consistently high and the number of times like on Thursday when he is involved in the goals we score. So even if he does mess up a bit you take that as part of the package that is Daniel Sturridge. If played regularly the facts are that he will always score - and that is what a team wants from its strikers isn't it. If our strikers play really well but they all score less than 10 per season then the team is not going to win the title or even come close cos most of the midfielders do not contribute many goals either. We need a 20 goal striker and if fit DS can be that man so lets hope he can stay fit next season. That is the only question mark against him, not whether he is good enough. Mind you for me Ings and Origi are great too so there may be times when DS does not play for the benefit of the team as we will have to rotate the squad which is a necessity in modern football

You can't have a striker who is worth 25 goals a season if he has the caveat "if he plays". Just as Kompany can't be City's best defender if he is getting 10 injuries a season.

I wouldn't be surprised if both these players are at different clubs next season despite both being clearly excellent footballers.

I look at it totally different. Since klopp has had what he called got pre season work into sturridge and built his fitness week by week his been pretty much fit every week.

His not breaking down no matter how many times people either want him to or think he will.

Is Liverpool's europa final gonna be live on YouTube like the champions league is?

Why would you want to watch it on You Tube?

I hope Klopp fields a strong side today and we get the 3 points. I would like us to qualify for the Europa League via the league, as a back up if we don't win the final. I know a lot of our supporters don't want us to be in that competition next season, despite the memories it has given us this season, but I always feel there's something missing when I see other English teams playing in Europe and we're not. Our poor league form this season hasn't been due to us playing in the Europa League.

Because I don't have BT sport and didn't know if it was being shown FTA.

I just out and out refuse to pay for BT, there are other ways to watch matches though!