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JoeTerp wrote:Rather play Gerrard at right back against Bolton.  We should keep the Carra Agger partnership going, plus if Gerrard is surrounded by Kuyt, Mascherano and Carra, he should be free to give a lesson to Arbeloa on how to bomb forward.



                                       Reina
Gerrard             Carra                     Agger           Aurelio
Kuyt                  Mascherano             Alonso           Riera
                         Keane                    Torres

Subs: Cavalieri, Degen, Hyypia, Lucas, Babel, Bennayoun, El Zhar







There hasn't been a single game this season where we have started with ALL of : Keane, Torres, Gerrard, Mascherano, and Alonso.  As soon as we signed Keane, I was wondering how Rafa would put them all in one side, and so far he hasn't. But to be fair, there have been precious few times when all were fit and not at the Olympics.  If this team was to turn into a well oiled machine that cranked out 3 points as its job, could it be possible to build that machine with one of those 5 parts on the subs bench? or with Kuyt on the subs bench?  One would think not, but somebody has to sit in order for someone to come on. Sadly, (or oddly) the possible Argentine captain might be the one to make way

OMG !

We're play him in goal when Reinas injured.

dame wrote:I would start Pennant instead of Riera. Riera plays quite a number of games lately. So the midfield for me will be SG, Xabi, Mash and Pennant. Upfront is Kuyt and Keane. Torres and Riera as sub when necessary.

lakes10 wrote:ok so back to real football.

well we will win this one easy 10-0 to us....by half time, 50-0 by full time.

who says i am never posative lol

I never realised people thought you were negative, just an idiot. 

bigmick wrote:Well one of the reasons I personally wasn't so fussed about the Tottenham result was that now we're out of the competition, it takes away the necessity to make wholesale changes from game to game. I think it works if you do it "Wenger style" and just play the complete reserve team, but when you make wholesale changes but include first teamers it can have a detrimental effect on the next "proper" match if you're not careful.

It's my feeling that we have gone off the boil a bit, although when I suggested as much in the rotation thread an unholy row broke out. True we had a fairly run of the mill win against WBA, but the Pompey performance, Spurs results (twice) and an extremely fortuitous draw against Athletico leads me to believe that we are probably in the middle of one of our bliiiips. Fortunately because of the wins against Pompey and WBA, it hasn't massively damaged our chances of launching a title challenge yet, but we really don't want to be dropping too many points at grounds like the Reebok.

I never saw the game at Spurs last night, but by all accounts there will be few of the blokes who came in who will be kicking the door in if they don't stay in the team at the weekend. If Dossena was half as bad as everyone says he was, then I guess Aurelio should be brought back in provided he isn't injured and probably left there for the forseeable, or at least until he does get injured again. I'm almost certain that Sami will be the only "newbie" to keep his place, and that Carragher will play right back.

Kuyt will obviously come back in (rightly) and I should think Riera will as well. Just about the only selection dilemma from there is whether we go with the 4-5-1 and then mull over the choice between Keane and Torres, or we go with the 4-4-2 and chop either Alonso or Masherano. For no other reason than I think neither deserves to be dropped, I'd keep Alonso and Masherano in the team and go 4-5-1. Assuming that scoring two goals and being left out was a fate which befell Keane simply and only because it was the Carling Cup in the next match, he must play. Given all that, I'd start with Torres on the bench.

We really are into that period of the season now where the big four are going to be looking to win every week. If you blink first, you'll regret it later and this really is one of those games that if it's 1-1 with twenty minutes left, you've got to absolutely go all out for the win. Doing so does mean that sometimes you risk losing, but I don't think that'll happen. I take us to get up in a tight and ugly match by the odd goal.

NANNY RED wrote:Id have this dog a stand by for a full back he does more chasing than any of our two did last night

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=On1Tfq5age8

Looks like a good defender, he'd certainly scary the out of the opposition players.

The Good Yank wrote:Just to be a little different.

                Riena
El Zhar  Carra   Agger  Aurellio

         Alonso  Gerrard
Kuyt                        Riera

                  Keane
        Torres

Subs:Cavalieri, Masher,Ngog,Babel,Hypia,Degan,Lucas