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NANNY RED wrote:Every stream i go into has got Westbrom on im panickin here i cant see nothin

bigmick wrote:

s@int wrote:

Redman in wales wrote:The Liverpool XI in full is: Reina, Arbeloa, Dossena, Carragher Skrtel, Lucas, Mascherano, Benayoun, Riera, Kuyt, Torres.

Subs: Cavalieri, Hyypia, Aurelio, Babel, Ngog, Spearing, El Zhar.

I suppose the only real question is who plays on the right Benny or Kuyt ?

Oh I don't know S@int, I can think of another one. It's this.

Assuming that Rafa agrees with most everyone else that Fabio Aurelio is the best left back at the club, why isn't he playing? I know this is our third match in about six weeks and tiredness maybe creeping in, I know we like to change our team, to twitch it a bit, to wriggle it a fraction to take account of the opposotion and all that old sh!t, but really.

Presuemably we've studied video of the man City right back and feel that whereas he might be able to shut out Aurelio's particular method of putting his left foot around it and bending a cross in, Dossena on the other hand has a distictive style which he'll find much harder to deal with. Perhaps it was Dossena's third place (a PB no doubt) in the three times round the pitch Thursday challenge, and Aurelio's night before Rice and Beans repeating on him did him no favours.

Who knows? Not me that's for sure. Looks to me like rotation for rotations sake, tryign to be clever for trying to be clevers sake in a team which has enough forced changes already, but that's just me. It wouldn't even be so bad if I thought Dossena turning in a MOM performance today would earn him the shirt in midweek, but it won't. If fit Aurelio will play on Wednesday, we all know that. We'll play our strongest team, funny that.

I've just thought of another question as well mate. Given the fact that neither Alonso nor Gerrard are playing, who's going to take any offensive free-kicks we get? Kuyt? Oh that's OK then.

fivecups wrote:Wow, didn't think a team that's very close to the one we'd all hoped for would engender such a stream of sarcastic Rafa-bashing.

'Play you're strongest eleven every match' is one of those footie saying's we know Rafa is never going to adhere to.

Lucas, Yossi or Reira have all taken our free-kicks in the past.