Liverpool are in high spirits as the Premier League, return edges ever closer.
After a period of pause lasted more than three months, the English football is the top flight is back on television screens Wednesday night Aston Villa Sheffield United and Manchester City welcome Arsenal.
Later that week, it’s the Reds ‘ turn to go behind closed doors in the arena as they travel across Stanley Park for the Merseyside derby with Everton on Sunday.
Jurgen Klopp in the Premier League leaders need just six more points to be crowned champions for the first time in 30 years and the head to Goodison Park in a cheerful mood.
After two months of time away from Melwood, the Liverpool has re-opened their basic training in mid-May, jürgen Klopp and his staff have had their players up to speed.
Anfield training sessions have become a theme of these last few weeks, with the players taking part in a couple of inter-team matches in the home stadium.
The idea by the coaching staff was to get the team used to play at Anfield without fans to cheer them on, while also increasing the intensity and level of fitness.
The first of these games came at the beginning of the month as the team took the decision to kneel in the centre of the cricle in support of the Black Lives matter movement, following the third degree murder of the American, George Floyd, the police in America.
It’s a move that has been driven in large part by the Coefficient of Wijnaldum and Virgil van Dijk with the entire team happy to give their support to the fight against racism protesters in the United States.
That game between the two teams of Liverpool was followed by a first game in three months, as the Reds welcomed Blackburn Rovers to Anfield by hammering them 6-0 last week.
And the Anfield training continued on Sunday as Klopp put his players through their paces, once more before the short trip to Goodison Park.
The interior insist that the training went well, with Klopp pleased with what he’s seen so far from his players.
After two months of personalized training, schemes from home and yoga sessions via Zoom, the Reds need a little bit of time to get back to speed when they returned to Melwood, but the talk is that the players are ready.
“We are still very focused and very determined,” said the captain, Jordan Henderson. “We need to be prepared. We need to be raring to go and not get caught cold coming out of the blocks.”
There is a general consensus that behind closed doors the situation will be, to quote one senior source, “weird with no support”, but the Liverpool players are anxious to fly out of the traps when the big kick-off arrives on Sunday evening.
Klopp is a message to his players in the course of the last three months is that these factors are outside of their control. Everyone can focus on is ensuring that their name is in the Premier League for the 2019/20 campaign.
The hope is that the players, led by skipper Henderson and the vice-captain, James Milner, will be able to take advantage of the mentality needed to reach the levels of before the sport is closed to his fans.
The Liverpool, team mentality is, of course, one of its main strengths, and players will be asked to tap in that when you visit Goodison Park this weekend.
After missing the last week’s win over Blackburn rovers, Anfield insiders have been reluctant to reveal if Andy Robertson and Mohamed Salah were fit enough to play a part in Sunday’s training.
But it is hoped that both in form when they head to Goodison for the 236th Merseyside derby.
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