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Not a bad team, I really want to see Cole given a chance in the middle in his actual position to see what he can do.

saurez cant play on the left in the PL yet. when i say we need more form CM i mean more attacking we dont need 2 sitting midfielders against blues at home we should be going at them right from the off. would utd, chelsea or arsenal play with 2 sitting midfielders at home against blues? no, so why should we?

----------Reina-----------
-Flano-Carra-Skrtel-Robbo-
-Kuyt-Meireles-Lucas-Maxi-
------Carroll--Suarez-----

maxi? really?

ok I'll correct you cause you're wrong he has played CM a few times. I am not saying don't play him, I am not saying he won't be excellent. I am saying With such few games left, and how well spearing has done, it will ruin his confidence to bench him cause he deserves to play ahead of shelvy, it is you who needs to get to grips with managing players. I'm tired of the benitez way of even if u play well I'm gonna bench you next game with some players. It does not get the best out of them. Shelvy can come on a sub if it looks like we need that change. But with spearing in that position we devastated City. If anyone should play in an attacking mid role it should be meireles.

Why are people considering dropping wee man?

it not about any one player its about a team spearing and lucas shouldn't play together in this game far too defensive, i would play meireles there but that means playing cole or maxi on the left so we'd basically be playing with 10 men from the start thats why i said shelvey should start and meireles is a bit lazy for a CM in the PL

We could play Lucas-Cole as well instead of Shelevey since you think he's not worthy yet.

I can really see a Diamond 442 against a pretty narrow Birmingham City team.

Reina

Flannagan
Skrtel
Kyriagkos
Robbinson/Wilson

Spearing
Lucas
Merieles
Shelvey

Kuyt
Suarez


I think Carrol has some fitness problem, and I doubt that any of Maxi, Cole, Ngog, Jovanovic will feature, as it's obvious that Kenny does not rate them at all.

Just throwing a name out there. I want to see Meireles in a more central role for this one; he's not terribly effective on the wing, free role or not, and if we play 4-2-3-1 Kenny will play Suarez in the hole instead.

I'll be honest, flames, I'm not liking 4-4-2. We have too many central midfielders and no wide players, and if Suarez is not going to cut it as an LM/LW then we will struggle to get all our best players on the pitch in natural positions (though Kenny is doing better than Roy was at this). If Kenny was going to play a midfield diamond (which suits everyone except Carroll) he would have done it by now. I mean, this looks interesting:
-----------Reina-------------
-Flano--Carra--Skrtel--Robbo-
---Spearing-Lucas-Meireles---
-----------Suarez------------
-------Kuyt-------Carroll----
But without Kelly and Johnson as the fullbacks we leave ourselves exposed on the flanks, and while Carroll is a good footballer he's no Drogba (or maybe he is and we just don't know it). If Carroll is unfit then maybe:
-----------Reina-------------
-Flano--Carra--Skrtel--Robbo-
---Spearing-Lucas-Shelvey----
-----------Meireles----------
-------Kuyt-------Suarez-----

But I'm not a Shelvey fan, tbh - dawdles around the pitch, no fire in the belly. Cole can't be worse, but that's not to say he's better. Selection is problematic, and we still don't have wide midfielders to track back and support the inexperienced fullbacks.

Otherwise just field the same 11 that walked off the park at the Emirates, but with Carra back in place of the Greek. But hopefully this time with some attacking intent.