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There's no sensible option but to start Bellamy, knees or no knees! In a game where we most likely have to score at least one goal to go through, who would start Carroll, Maxi or Kuyt up front ? Unless Gerrard can knock one or two in...as so often in the past, I can't see where we are going to get a goal, other than from him or Bellamy. Right now we are really bereft of any reasonable semblance of a strike force, with the exception of Bellamy. I fully expect City to throw virtually every one forward right from the off in the knowledge that we are virtually toothless up front. I expect our defenders to be in for one hell of a torrid time of it. Being usually of an optimistic outlook I would be tempted to say that'll give us an opportunity on the break, but I can't see the legs in our side to do it and they are likely to put someone tight on Bellamy. I'm finding it really hard to muster any sense of optimism on this one. I suppose you'll fully expect to see him play against Man Ure on saturday too? I hear ya, and I want him to start tonight aswell, but I'll understand if he doesn't. Hopefully he'll be up to the task. If he does play tonight, I'd say it'll be fairly certain he won't start against Man Ure. Whereas, if he doesn't start tonight, he probably will on Saturday. It'll be one or the other.
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While I agree with you to a large degree on Carroll, it's well worth noting that he assisted Bellamy's goal in the last game with a top notch flick-on with his head. That's the sort of thing we need to be seeing from him - and the reason I think we haven't seen more of it is because of the lack of a 4-4-2 formation. He hasn't had anyone up there with him to put these flick-ons on to.
In the absence of Suarez, Kenny seems to be sticking with a Rafa style 4-2-3-1 formation at the moment Problem is it doesn't seem to be working anywhere near as well as our 4-4-2 at the start of the season where even when the results didn't go our way performances were encouraging That's not the case with the 4-2-3-1 when both performances and results have been poor And whemn he sticks Downing on the right - it makes it even harder for Carroll to involve himself But these things aside, it's hard to quantify just how bad Carroll has been in the past half a dozen games or so he's started and I agree with Annefield that's it reached the point where involving him seriously risks our chances of winning games I go back to a 4-4-2, recall Kelly and push Johnson out to the right flank with Downing on the other, and play eoither Kuyt or Maxi alongside Bellamy up front
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I know Bar, that's the fix we're in sure enough but I feel we have to play Bellamy tonight because if we do get through it'l give us a mighty boost for Saturdays game. The thing is we could play Maxi instead but it's a one in ten chance he'll actually materialize on the pitch!! We could play Carroll instead but how do we stop him from falling down in a great heap when and if a ball or a man hoves near?? We could play Kuyt instead (probably the best option of the three) but can he any longer see a pass or even a goal post?? This unfortunately is where we are at for tonights match, a truly unenviable position. However hope springs eternal and it's often when we are like this that we get up and bite the arse off our opponents...who knows?
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While I agree with you to a large degree on Carroll, it's well worth noting that he assisted Bellamy's goal in the last game with a top notch flick-on with his head. That's the sort of thing we need to be seeing from him - and the reason I think we haven't seen more of it is because of the lack of a 4-4-2 formation. He hasn't had anyone up there with him to put these flick-ons on to.
In the absence of Suarez, Kenny seems to be sticking with a Rafa style 4-2-3-1 formation at the moment Problem is it doesn't seem to be working anywhere near as well as our 4-4-2 at the start of the season where even when the results didn't go our way performances were encouraging That's not the case with the 4-2-3-1 when both performances and results have been poor And whemn he sticks Downing on the right - it makes it even harder for Carroll to involve himself But these things aside, it's hard to quantify just how bad Carroll has been in the past half a dozen games or so he's started and I agree with Annefield that's it reached the point where involving him seriously risks our chances of winning games I go back to a 4-4-2, recall Kelly and push Johnson out to the right flank with Downing on the other, and play eoither Kuyt or Maxi alongside Bellamy up front We like to disagree Jim, on just about everything, but I'm 100% with you on this one, your selection and formation, even though having to select either Kuyt or Maxi on their current run of form is an unenviable choice, but we don't really have any other viable option.
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Reina, Johnson, Enrique, Skrtel, Agger, Downing, Kuyt, Adam, Henderson, Gerrard, Bellamy. Subs: Doni, Kelly, Carroll, Maxi, Coates, Carragher, Shelvey.
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is it on tv like last week?
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is it on tv like last week? sky sports 1
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is it on tv like last week? sky sports 1 dont have sky  i guess it will have to be LFCTV at noon
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Is it a 4-5-1 again with Kuyt up front on his own? I bloody hope not. Sky's lineup suggests Kuyt & Bellamy up front with Henderson on the right & Downing on the left. They've been wrong before though, we'll only really know once the game starts.
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Well O'm off up to warm up the valves on me wireless, and lie on me nest with me footie food.  They BETTER put on a good performance, or I'm going to merder a kitten. 
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