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by **MilitiaRusher** » Sat Sep 24, 2005 11:55 am

Rafael Benitez has made three changes to the Liverpool starting line-up for today's Premiership fixture v Birmingham City at St Andrews.
Into the side comes Josemi, Djimi Traore and Dietmar Hamann. Stephen Warnock will play on the left of midfield, with captain Steven Gerrard expected to play just behind Peter Crouch.

Team in full: Reina, Josemi, Traore, Hyypia, Carragher, Gerrard, Alonso, Hamann, Warnock, Pongolle, Crouch. Subs - Carson, Cisse, Riise, Finnan, Garcia.

by **Ciggy** » Sat Sep 24, 2005 11:59 am

Hope it works doesnt look very attacking :sniffle

Need to win today CMON U REDS :buttrock

by **davo_LFC** » Sat Sep 24, 2005 12:01 pm

warnock will need to double up with traore to keep pennant quiet coz he raped traores ar.se last season...was hoping we would play 4-4-2 but that team should get the win :;):

by **fivecups** » Sat Sep 24, 2005 12:02 pm

4-5-1 again lads. Better get used to it.

This is still an away match and unlikely to be a walk in the park. No point in losing because we get overrun against a 5 man midfield.

Let's see how the match is going and if we need to we can switch to 4-4-2 later on.

by **dward** » Sat Sep 24, 2005 12:04 pm

do you think we could keep the discussion in the birmingham liverpool thread

or should i just stop being a wanna-be-mod?

by **Ciggy** » Sat Sep 24, 2005 12:09 pm

It says on SSN that Zenden is in the team

Reina
Josemi Carra Hyypia Traore
Pongo Hamann Alonso Warnock
Gerrard

Crouch

by **Cool Hand Luke** » Sat Sep 24, 2005 12:10 pm

This looks most likely:

Reina

Josemi Hyypia Carragher Traore

Pongolle Alonso Hamann Warnock

Gerrard

Crouch

But wouldent be surprised if we went for the old 5-3-2:

Reina

Hyypia Carragher Traore
Josemi Warnock
Alonso Hamann
Gerrard

Pongolle Crouch

Outside bet is a 4-4-2 with Gerrard on the right:

Reina

Josemi Hyypia Carragher Traore

Gerrard Alonso Hamann Warnock

Crouch Pongolle

by **red37** » Sat Sep 24, 2005 12:17 pm

how about playing it this way cool hand?

reina

josemi carragher hyypia traore

hamann

pongo alonso warnock

gerrard

crouch

stevie and pongo changing/overlapping when attacking. gerrard dropping back to make a 5 when defending. warnock will operate back with djimi.

by **Cool Hand Luke** » Sat Sep 24, 2005 12:19 pm

What the hell has happened to Zenden, has he already fallen out of favour? Injured? Why play Warnock at left midfield when we have 2 better options in Zenden and Riise?

I don’t think there is any need to rest players, we have 3 full days in between this and Chelsea game, plus it is minimal travel, so it should be best team out for both games. Maybe he is being over cautious about the threat of Pennant, but even if he was, wouldn’t it make sense to play Warnock at LB and Riise at LM. And what is the point of going with Josmei and RB when Finnan is fine and there is plenty of recovery time before the next game.

Some strange decisions in my opinion, hope they don’t back fire, we need to win this game, most of the responsibility to get a goal will be on Pongolle, Gerrard and Crouch.

But at the end of the day, Rafa knows better than us (well he is supposed to), so lets hope for a positive result.

by **fivecups** » Sat Sep 24, 2005 12:23 pm

It must be your first suggestion Luke.

by **Cool Hand Luke** » Sat Sep 24, 2005 12:24 pm

dward wrote:do you think we could keep the discussion in the birmingham liverpool thread

or should i just stop being a wanna-be-mod?

Your right

The other thread has the title Birmingham Vs Liverpool, ALL DISCUSSION HERE PLEASE.

Everyone stop using this thread I think, and mods should lock it.

by **liverpoolrich** » Sat Sep 24, 2005 12:26 pm

the team is

reina

josemi
carra
hyypia
traore

garcia
hamman
gerrard
zenden

crouch
cisse

by **drummerphil** » Sat Sep 24, 2005 12:31 pm

I,ve just paid £7 to watch this ........come on lads

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