Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers has made lots of changes for tonight's Europa League clash with Udinese at Anfield.
Daniel Agger is rested (well, he has a fractured knee!), as are the likes of Luis Suarez, Steven Gerrard and Martin Skrtel.
Rodgers has also given Suso, Nuri Sahin, Raheem Sterling and Andre Wisdom a rest, which allows fringe players like Stewart Downing and Jordan Henderson to get a run out.
Fabio Borini and Jonjo Shelvey return to the starting line-up, and Oussama Assaidi makes his second Europa League start for the club.
FULL LINE-UP:
Reina, Johnson, Coates, Carragher, Robinson, Allen, Shelvey, Henderson, Downing, Borini, Assaidi
SUBS: Subs: Jones, Suarez, Gerrard, Sahin, Sterling, Skrtel, Wisdom.
Jaimie Kanwar
Daniel Agger is rested (well, he has a fractured knee!), as are the likes of Luis Suarez, Steven Gerrard and Martin Skrtel.
Rodgers has also given Suso, Nuri Sahin, Raheem Sterling and Andre Wisdom a rest, which allows fringe players like Stewart Downing and Jordan Henderson to get a run out.
Fabio Borini and Jonjo Shelvey return to the starting line-up, and Oussama Assaidi makes his second Europa League start for the club.
FULL LINE-UP:
Reina, Johnson, Coates, Carragher, Robinson, Allen, Shelvey, Henderson, Downing, Borini, Assaidi
SUBS: Subs: Jones, Suarez, Gerrard, Sahin, Sterling, Skrtel, Wisdom.
Jaimie Kanwar
A serious line-up. Hope our team is in form tonight. Good luck LFC
ReplyDeleteLFC Site says Sahin in on the bench with no place for Suso. Where did you get your teamsheet from?
ReplyDeleteassiadi actually makes his 3rd full start for the club
ReplyDeletehe started vs young boys and WBA and now today
I meant second Europa League start.
ReplyDeleteDowning ?Oh no !
ReplyDeleteyou could say the same for downing allen and coates
ReplyDeleteWhy was my comment deleted? I was only asking what your source was for the early team news?
ReplyDeleteDowning?! Why Brendan?! I'd have prefered Dani Pacheco to him and I wonder why BR didn't give Enrique a run in tonight's game. This is a good team, but I have a feeling that Downing might score an own goal, I hope he proves me wrong thought.
ReplyDeletewell all players need rest so yh time will tell
ReplyDeleteSame old story guys. Brilliant football, domination, possession and loose.
ReplyDeletewow good call ref 25 seconds left in the game and no red card for the idiot who pulled down downing argh i don't understand these officiators imo carragher needs to stay in the reserves agger/skrtel/coady/wilson/wisdom would have kept our back line in tact coates so unfortunate for that own goal
ReplyDeleteThis was one of the best losses I've ever seen :(
ReplyDeletecan't show up in the last 15 mins and expect to win i hate when liverpool does that drop the tempo/urgency in there play after going up we should have killed them in the first half when we had the chance
ReplyDeleteBR has to address that issue a problem i've seen since last season
ReplyDeletePathetic from LFC once again. Sorry but the pretty passing and possession football just doesnt cut it for me...leave that nonsense to the arsenal..i will take the aggression and grinding results of Manure and Citeh any day. How many more near misses from Rodgers shall we take before we light a candle under his ars*???
ReplyDeleteliverpool played really good they just lacked that urgency, positives from the match; wasn't the real starting eleven and we played really well, third in the group with 3 points and anzhi and udinese tied with 4 points
ReplyDeleteDoes this total football style of play come with not being able to keep clean sheets?
ReplyDeleteARSENAL have had the same problem for the last 5 years.Like BRENDAN RODGERS said we can't score 3 or 4 goals a game to make up for defensive mistakes.
Paid the price for not turning up in the first big chunk of the second half. Serves us right, regardless of how much we play well in the other parts of the game. As you have to make the good spells count and batten down the hatches when you are having a tough spell in a game. Did neither for most of the game. That isn't brilliant football or bad luck. Hopefully as time goes on, we will be able to show far more resilience when we are having a tough spell, as we aren't able to ride them out. Once the initial high quick press is done and the opposition still has the ball, we do look very soft but I think many teams who deploy the high press, suffer from the same problem, although to varying degrees, when opposition get beyond the high press, such as Bilbao, Dortmund, Barca, etc. It will take time this system to get used to, in relation to defending as a unit.
ReplyDeleteThe table shows LFC in 3rd spot...doesnt matter if it was the 5th 11... the Europa League is the theatre where LFC is supposed to blood its new talent, try combinations (and we saw Jonjo + Suarez continue a rich vein of form). It is becoming clear that 1. the win against Norwich flattered to deceive, and the team has reached its nadir; 2. this job is too big for Rogers in the same way that AvB was not up for it at Chelsea. I call on all right thinking supporters to begin agitating for the ouster of Rogers...we need a safe pair of hands like a Hiddink..
ReplyDeleteumm i wouldn go so far to that i mean any logical fan knows its kenny's fault why we're in such a mess and all in all liverpool has been playing some beautiful football all i say is give BR time carragher, downing (no matter how hard he tried today) and hendo are not starting 11 material this game would have proved it to him i honestly believe BR will bring back glory days to liverpool
ReplyDeleteso the usual excuses then? bad luck & bad officiating? Yawn.
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