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by **Red H** » Fri Sep 10, 2010 12:10 am

4-4-1-1
Reina

Johnson Carragher Agger Konchskey

Cole Meireles Poulsen Jovanavic

Gerrard

Torres

Could just as easy be 4-2-3-1 with Cole and Jovanavic pushed on. Looking forward to seeing Meireles in a red shirt.

by **Zidane** » Fri Sep 10, 2010 3:59 am

Red H wrote:4-4-1-1
Reina

Johnson Carragher Agger Konchskey

Cole Meireles Poulsen Jovanavic

Gerrard

Torres

Could just as easy be 4-2-3-1 with Cole and Jovanavic pushed on. Looking forward to seeing Meireles in a red shirt.

Same lineup except Babel or Maxi for Cole since he's suspended, I think we'll win comfortably.

by **jacdaniel** » Fri Sep 10, 2010 10:02 am

Fauxy wrote:
stmichael wrote:
Fauxy wrote:eh? need i remind you we are playing Birmingham!

yeah a team we haven't beaten in the league since 2004. they also haven't lost at home for a year. we don't just have a divine right to go there and win.

No no I agree that they arent going to be easy, and I dont expect us to go there with the divine right to win.

But saying we will lose against birmingham because our personnel cant handle 4-4-2 is a bit silly no?

Fair enough, perhaps it was a little extreme to suggest we'll lose if we play 4-4-2.

But i do believe our squad isn't suited to playing that formation. We do have lots of good players, just not neccesarily the right ones to fit that system.

If we had some pacey wingers and a bit more aerial dominance up front, it could work quite well.

by **Fauxy** » Fri Sep 10, 2010 1:45 pm

jacdaniel wrote:
Fauxy wrote:
stmichael wrote:
Fauxy wrote:eh? need i remind you we are playing Birmingham!

yeah a team we haven't beaten in the league since 2004. they also haven't lost at home for a year. we don't just have a divine right to go there and win.

No no I agree that they arent going to be easy, and I dont expect us to go there with the divine right to win.

But saying we will lose against birmingham because our personnel cant handle 4-4-2 is a bit silly no?

Fair enough, perhaps it was a little extreme to suggest we'll lose if we play 4-4-2.

But i do believe our squad isn't suited to playing that formation. We do have lots of good players, just not neccesarily the right ones to fit that system.

If we had some pacey wingers and a bit more aerial dominance up front, it could work quite well.

Yeah I agree with that, wingers are probably the key to 4-4-2 and we dont really have a natural winger. Man United can pull off 4-4-2 because they have Valencia and Nani bombing it down the flanks all the time!

by **Cool Hand Luke** » Fri Sep 10, 2010 2:30 pm

Birmingham haven't lost a league game in 16 and have a great record at home so they are certainly going to be tough.

Reina

Johnson Carragher Agger Konchesky

Poulsen Meireles

Rodríguez Gerrard Jovanovic

Torres

Subs: Ngog, Babel, Pacheco, Lucas, Kelly, Skrtel, Jones

by **Redman in wales** » Fri Sep 10, 2010 3:14 pm

Cool Hand Luke wrote:Birmingham haven't lost a league game in 16 and have a great record at home so they are certainly going to be tough.

Reina

Johnson Carragher Agger Konchesky

Poulsen Meireles

Rodríguez Gerrard Jovanovic

Torres

Subs: Ngog, Babel, Pacheco, Lucas, Kelly, Skrtel, Jones

gets my vote

by **Roger Red Hat** » Fri Sep 10, 2010 3:27 pm

Redman in wales wrote:
Cool Hand Luke wrote:Birmingham haven't lost a league game in 16 and have a great record at home so they are certainly going to be tough.

Reina

Johnson Carragher Agger Konchesky

Poulsen Meireles

Rodríguez Gerrard Jovanovic

Torres

Subs: Ngog, Babel, Pacheco, Lucas, Kelly, Skrtel, Jones

gets my vote

yep and mine - good team that for Sunday.

Just drop cole in there when we play Man Utd and we're sorted

by **fivecups** » Fri Sep 10, 2010 4:51 pm

I too concur.

by **Benny The Noon** » Fri Sep 10, 2010 5:29 pm

Who combats the aerial threat of Zigic ? Think the big Greek may start this game

by **only me** » Fri Sep 10, 2010 5:40 pm

Benny The Noon wrote:Who combats the aerial threat of Zigic ? Think the big Greek may start this game

Read my mind - The Greek should start instead of Cara and that would be the ideal starters. I think we should really take into consideration the lack of threat our CB are offering on attack at Set pieces ,Carra and Skertel have nothing to offer their. Almost all other Team's CB net a few headers during the season and that's another component we are totally lacking. Another point for Roy to think about...

by **metalhead** » Fri Sep 10, 2010 6:37 pm

Cool Hand Luke wrote:Birmingham haven't lost a league game in 16 and have a great record at home so they are certainly going to be tough.

Reina

Johnson Carragher Agger Konchesky

Poulsen Meireles

Rodríguez Gerrard Jovanovic

Torres

Subs: Ngog, Babel, Pacheco, Lucas, Kelly, Skrtel, Jones

I would go with that

by **Fauxy** » Fri Sep 10, 2010 8:31 pm

Although players at the height of 6"8 do tend to be threats, Zigic had a compelte shocker in their last game and was cleary not adjusted to their style of play.

Their main threat is down the flanks, if they get past our fullbacks they can cause bigg problems.

Luckily we have salcido.

Sorry, Konchesky

by **damjan193** » Fri Sep 10, 2010 9:18 pm

This game will be hard and looking at it realistically we'll probably draw. 1 - 1, 2 - 2 is my thought. Dont get me wrong I want us to win but I doubt that we will. As for the formation we'll probably play this:

Reina

Johnson Carra Agger Konchesky

Poulsen Meireles

Maxi Jovanovic

Gerrard

Torres

Or if the manager is unsure about the new guys duo Poulsen-Meireles and would rather play Gerrard there then it might look like this:

Reina

Johnson Carra Agger Konchesky

Gerrard Meireles

Maxi Jovanovic

Babel

Torres

Both have their own risks and it will be tough to choose the right formation and line - up. We also have some new players and we have some starters that wont play this one so it is a bit complicated and it will be a very hard game and thats why I think we'll draw.

by **Red H** » Sat Sep 11, 2010 12:04 am

Quote (Red H @ Sep. 10 2010,00:10)
4-4-1-1
Reina

Johnson Carragher Agger Konchskey

Cole Meireles Poulsen Jovanavic

Gerrard

Torres

Could just as easy be 4-2-3-1 with Cole and Jovanavic pushed on. Looking forward to seeing Meireles in a red shirt.

Same lineup except Babel or Maxi for Cole since he's suspended, I think we'll win comfortably.[/quote]

My Bad

by **rocky29** » Sat Sep 11, 2010 1:39 am

metalhead wrote:
Cool Hand Luke wrote:Birmingham haven't lost a league game in 16 and have a great record at home so they are certainly going to be tough.

Reina

Johnson Carragher Agger Konchesky

Poulsen Meireles

Rodríguez Gerrard Jovanovic

Torres

Subs: Ngog, Babel, Pacheco, Lucas, Kelly, Skrtel, Jones

I would go with that

stop dreaming he will start with lucas and poulsen

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