

two days to go and there's no match thread. so a complete match thread starting novice like myself has to go and do it. don't come crying to me if it all goes pear shaped.
anyway, out current resurgence under the genius of roy hodgson will probably see us though this one. i don't really fancy us to get beaten... unless poulsen plays (as he's awful) and johnson plays (as he's forgotten how to). the lucas and mereiles axis will hopefully work nicely in midfield again, gerrard will still be pretending he's superman, and the greek will basically scare the shyte out of drogba and anelka. if torres can't motivate himself for this game then he might as well call it a day with us.
it looks like malouda is going to be fit in the end, but a big plus is that essien is now doubtful with a poorly toe or something the poor lamb. if i had to choose one of them to be out it would deffo be him.
we'll get by 2-1
