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What do you guys think?

unlike alot of you guys i dont think flanagan was that great agaisnt city. yes his young and it was his 1st game and he did ok but that was it, northing more northing less. city where so bad it must of been embarrassing for their supporters. flanagan wasnt really tested. i bet his had a harder time playing for the reserves. dont get me wrong am not knocking the boy but lets put it into perspective, it wasnt the hardest of games. even Djimi Traore would have looked ok in that game

I wasn't saying if he was good or not to be fair.. lol

Do you think he'll start at the weekend tho?

if kelly is still out then yes. i think that game will be a better test for the kid

Maybe but some people been saying he did 'oright' vs man citeh

Be realistic now ok this is why he played awesome for his debut
1st game for the 1st team with thousands of crazy Liverpudlians screaming
His 1st game against man city even if they played 'crap' there still a tough side
He's only 18
Inexperienced

Give the lad a chance

Well done Flanno great game (y) !

as others have said if kelly isn't fit he'll have to fill in. will be a bigger test for him playing away from home but the lad must be playing with confidence after a perfect debut against city. he couldn't of dreamt of a better first appearance than that (apart from scoring a goal) everything seemed to go well for him on the night.

He'll be fine on the right against the Gunners - Arshavin has been terrible this season. Walcott is the danger man for me - he's about 3 yards faster than any player we own, and he had a nice easy 20 mins vs Blackpool to keep him sharp (which included an assist). Aurelio had better not get injured chasing him down, cos Wilson won't stand the same chance of keeping him quiet.

Also I would expect Nasri and Fabregas to be much more of a midfield threat than Yaya "Worst midfielder in the EPL" Toure and "Glad we didn't buy him" Barry. Kenny will need to change midfield tactics for this game, because we've dropped points in every game our midfield did not fire (and Lucas + Spearing/Poulsen played most, if not all of those). Meireles must surely return as part of a midfield 3, and leave Carroll up front by himself (possibly play a midfield diamond 4-3-1-2 with Carroll/Kuyt up top and Suarez as trequartista). It will limit our options somewhat, but I'd bank a draw at the Emirates at this stage (though wouldn't it be something if we beat everyone in the top 10 except Everton during Kenny's heavily injury-affected spell?)

Kenny could decide to damn the torpedoes and go full steam ahead like we did on Monday, given that the gunners are hardly assured at the back themselves. That opening salvo against City was breathtaking, but again, Nasri + Fabregas.... This should be the sternest tactical test for Kenny this season.

Im with you on that one suso, city did not test our backline at all and add to the fact we were 3 nil up so quickly it made it much easier for him. Not taking away his efforts tho because he did well for a debut. I think theres every chance he will start again considering kelly and johnson are out and kenny wants carra in the middle where he can dominate. I think arsenal will give him a much better test and we can judge him again.

Its the best time to be putting the youngsters in. We don't have a lot to play for so lets give them a go. I didn't see the game Monday so can't comment on how good he was but lets hope he comes good.

away at arsenal is a massive challenge for him but tbf they dont play with an out and out winger, no doubt nasri will make him look silly a couple of time throughout the 90 mins but he'll do that to all our defenders tbh. forget flano its a massive challenge for us as a team if arsenal are at it right from the off we will lose quite easily