bigmick wrote:As such I'd give Leon his first appearance of the season in goal, I'd bring in Lee Peltier, the bloke who got shot up the erse, Egg Nog, Zorba and all the other blokes who are kicking around the training pitch who everyone goes "who is that bloke again?" when he parks his Land Rover at Melwood.
s@int wrote:I would go with a weak team as this is the one competition where we can afford a mistake or bad result so its worth the gamble. Johnson and Torres both looked tired at the weekend so I would definately rest them both.
Owzat wrote:s@int wrote:I would go with a weak team as this is the one competition where we can afford a mistake or bad result so its worth the gamble. Johnson and Torres both looked tired at the weekend so I would definately rest them both.
On the flip side, if we don't win early enough it could cost us later in the group stages. Can we not go out and score a couple of goals then take Torres off? I might be tempted to rest Gerrard, play Mascherano/Lucas/Spearing in midfield and rest Johnson at RB.
Leaving qualification for later could be the worst way to approach this, I'd rather try and qualify with games to spare so we can rest players then.
LFC2007 wrote:With the game at the weekend which we really need to win, I think we ought to keep the side as it is in order to build some fluency and cohesion. Otherwise we'll end up rotating ourselves into a spin and might end up out of the title race by Christmas
bigmick wrote:LFC2007 wrote:With the game at the weekend which we really need to win, I think we ought to keep the side as it is in order to build some fluency and cohesion. Otherwise we'll end up rotating ourselves into a spin and might end up out of the title race by Christmas
Very true mate That said, Torres in particular needs a rest and I'd certainly leave him out. Infact lets face it, if we had a single other viable option it would have been sensible to leave Torres out against Burnley as well.
They do say many a true word is said in jest though, and your "out of the title race by Christmas" may even prove to be overly optimistic. If we were to lose at Chelsea in a couple of weeks time (assuming we don't gain any points on them before then) I'd say that at nine points behind them we are as good as out of it by the end of September.
The challenge at the moment is very much to stay in the title race, and we are very much clinging on by our fingernails IMHO. Thanks God Man Utd lost at Burnley or it would already be a mountain we had to climb as opposed to a large hill. Hopefully we can win at West Ham at the weekend, and fingers crossed the Mancs draw with Citeh and Spurs turn Chelsea over.
Given the size of our task though, the Champions League game against the Hungarian mob must take a back seat in terms of importance.
LFC2007 wrote:With the game at the weekend which we really need to win, I think we ought to keep the side as it is in order to build some fluency and cohesion. Otherwise we'll end up rotating ourselves into a spin and might end up out of the title race by Christmas
john craig wrote:bigmick wrote:LFC2007 wrote:With the game at the weekend which we really need to win, I think we ought to keep the side as it is in order to build some fluency and cohesion. Otherwise we'll end up rotating ourselves into a spin and might end up out of the title race by Christmas
Very true mate That said, Torres in particular needs a rest and I'd certainly leave him out. Infact lets face it, if we had a single other viable option it would have been sensible to leave Torres out against Burnley as well.
They do say many a true word is said in jest though, and your "out of the title race by Christmas" may even prove to be overly optimistic. If we were to lose at Chelsea in a couple of weeks time (assuming we don't gain any points on them before then) I'd say that at nine points behind them we are as good as out of it by the end of September.
The challenge at the moment is very much to stay in the title race, and we are very much clinging on by our fingernails IMHO. Thanks God Man Utd lost at Burnley or it would already be a mountain we had to climb as opposed to a large hill. Hopefully we can win at West Ham at the weekend, and fingers crossed the Mancs draw with Citeh and Spurs turn Chelsea over.
Given the size of our task though, the Champions League game against the Hungarian mob must take a back seat in terms of importance.
Find this a very odd post mate.
You've been pretty strong in your opinion that Benitez shouldn't rotate, especially early season when players can't possible be tired. You were also one of the most critical of Benitez the season before last when he 'rested' Torres in games against Birmingham and someone else and we dropped valuable points. So it seems odd that you should now say you would have rested him against Burnley (viable alternative option or not). Of course it's easy for you or any of us to say this in hindsight, because we won the game at a canter, but what if Benitez had rested Torres (and let's say we did have a half decent replacement) and we still drew?? Most likely there'd have been a string of posts on here condemning Benitez's 'styling'.
Sometimes Benitez can't win. He's damned if he does and damned if he doesn't. Sometimes I just think we need to take a step back from it all and realise that Rafa Benitez knows a sh.it lot more about football than any of us.
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