Liverpool FC Forum

The Manhattan Project wrote:Oddly enough, Manhattan had a vision today that Masch would indeed score against Manure.

This is by no means a prediction of victory.

We may lose 10-1 with Masch getting a consolation goal.

   

We need to avoid defeat in all our remaining games this season if we are to claim fourth and we need to get points at OT and at the Emirates. So against reading today , we have avoided defeat in the last 6 or 7 matches with rafa cutting down on rotation keeping the core of the team the same . We should beat reading tonight seeing as the form we are in , rafa should stick with the 4-5-1 formation and i here's the team i'd like to see .

                                       Reina

Arbeloa                             Carra               Skrtel           Riise


                                       Masch             Alonso

Kuyt                                                                         Babel

                                         Gerrard

                                         
                                         Torres

With this team , we should beat them comfortably , 3-0 or 4-0 perhaps and then rafa can take off torres can give crouch a run , Pennant and Lucas . Arbeloa as right back as finnan is injured , if not i'd have finnan there and Alonso welcomed back into he team as he and masch have done a good job in the past few games or so . Hopefully reading do not park the bus

zarababe wrote:El Capaitain !

"You mean el Capitian!"  yes it's my boat "What's it called"
The SS Minow Johnson  .

Sorry it's early, Rush Hour 3 love that film.

Sorry,Anyway 4-1 the Redmen

john craig wrote:Let's not fu.ck around with the team today, remember we're winning games BECAUSE Gerrard and Torres are playing every game and we have a fairly settled team and formation.  We need to keep the momentum going and not rotate players out of form like has happened before.

Minimal changes for me today - I'd start with:

                                 Reina

Arbeloa            Carragher    Skrtel          Aurelio

                     Mascherano  Alonso

Kuyt                        Gerrard                 Babel

                              Torres


We should rest Hyypia as it's asking a bit much for him to play every game at his age.  Apart from that I would keep it the same.  I think I'm right in saying our next game after this is a week away, so plenty of time for the players to recover.  It's all about momentum at this stage, let's not lose it.

If things go to plan then Gerrard and Torres can come off after an hour when we're 3-0 up.

Spot on, John.  Don't tinker with a winning formula for this one.  If they kick Torres I'm confident he can cope.  Perhaps they'd be kind enough to do it in their area and hand us an early penalty?

At the risk of sounding like a broken record here, I hope Babel is prepared to battle today should he be selected.  I'm looking to see more heart from this lad, both with and without the ball.  Come on, son, show us you've got the bottle to wear the shirt.

The_Rock wrote:I might be going against the traffic here....but i think it is better not to play Torres against reading (one of the most dirtiest team in this league).

This has been such a stop-start season....(Yanks vs Rafa, Agger injury, Torres Injury, ref co@k-up against chelsea...etc), the last thing we want is a injury to Torres. I remember in the league cup Torres was kicked all over the pitch and you can be sure with reading fighting for their premierleague status will target torres again.

So i think we should maybe drop torres and bring in crouch in the 4-3-2-1 formation...... Crouch could do an adequate job in that position.... And with Macherano and Alonso giving nothing away in midfield...we should still be too strong for reading.