Having barely had the prospect to catch our breath after a whirlwind 2022/23, the Premier League have launched the fixtures for subsequent season.
Jurgen Klopp and his workforce might be determined to proper the wrongs of a difficult marketing campaign on all fronts and get again to chasing silverware subsequent Might.
The Reds’ full set of league fixtures had been confirmed on Thursday morning, together with a visit to Stamford Bridge on the opening day and a well-recognized face on the end line.
Followers can now mentally envisage the pathway to Premier League glory on the finish of the season, however Liverpool should navigate a tough set of December video games at Anfield if that’s to materialise.
Listed below are 5 key issues we observed from the Reds’ 2023/24 Premier League schedule.
Opener not in opposition to a newly-promoted aspect
For the primary time since 2018/19, the Reds is not going to be beginning in opposition to a workforce who’ve simply come up from the Championship.
Fulham, Leeds and Norwich (on two events) have all been first up for Klopp’s males in current seasons, affording them what’s, on paper no less than, a wholesome begin to proceedings.
Chelsea might be Liverpool’s first opponents of the brand new marketing campaign on August 13, with Liverpool having requested that the primary sport be performed away from Anfield to permit further time to finish the event of the Anfield Highway Stand.
It’s not a sport which has yielded many objectives within the final 4 encounters, with the league conferences final season and home cup finals in 2021/22 all ending goalless after 90 minutes.
A brutal December at Anfield
The festive season is famend for being a busy time within the soccer calendar and this season isn’t any exception.
Liverpool will host Man United (sixteenth), Arsenal (twenty third) and Newcastle (thirtieth) throughout the area of two weeks in December, with all three sides having completed within the high 4 in 2022/23.
If the Reds are to mount a severe title problem they might want to overcome a busy Christmas schedule, wherein journeys to Crystal Palace and Burnley may even be sprinkled earlier than the brand new 12 months.
A predictable finish
Loss of life, taxes and Wolves on the ultimate day!
It’s the third time in 5 seasons that the Reds will come up in opposition to Wolves at Anfield within the season finale, with the earlier two events resulting in Man Metropolis choosing up the Premier League title by a single level.
Optimists may view it as a possibility for a 3rd time fortunate, whereas others are afraid we’ve got seen the ending of this movie one too many occasions earlier than.
Winter break in January
Followers could have observed the hole between the journey to Bournemouth on January 13 and the go to of Chelsea on January 31.
That’s as a result of there might be a winter break after the flip of the 12 months, the place the fixtures might be cut up into two units of 5 throughout the weekends commencing January 13 and January 20.
The Premier League have tried to introduce a mid-season break into the schedule in recent times, however the coronavirus pandemic and Qatar World Cup have at occasions made the logistics tougher.
After all, we all know the prolonged schedule doesn’t at all times honour the idea of a winter break, with Liverpool requested to play an FA Cup replay in the course of the interval wherein the 2019/20 break was initially deliberate.
You possibly can wager Klopp might be simply as disgruntled if the identical proves true this time round.
A gentler dash to the road
Whereas the cliche dictates that there are not any straightforward video games in soccer, Liverpool’s April and Might run-in may actually have labored out much less favourably.
If the Reds can place themselves inside hanging distance of high spot with six weeks to go, Klopp and his gamers will definitely fancy themselves to make a severe problem for the league title because the video games attract.
Crystal Palace (H), Fulham (A), West Ham (A), Tottenham (H), Aston Villa (A) and Wolves (H) are Liverpool’s closing six video games of the marketing campaign – who mixed for a mean end of tenth final season – a run the supervisor would look to take 18 factors from when his aspect are at their swashbuckling finest.
Man Metropolis will go into the season as heavy favourites after successful 5 of the final six Premier Leagues and having simply captured the treble, however we all know all too effectively what this set of gamers stay able to with their backs to the wall.
Let’s hope we see much less 2022/23 and extra of the quadruple chasers that went earlier than it. Up the Reds!
