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Rest some of the key lads for city.
Give some others a chance.
Squad will be tested here but 1 goal to us and it's game over.

Mignolet
Lovren Skrtel Toure
Manquillo Henderson Can Ibe
Markovic Lallana
Balotelli

Ward
Johnson
Moreno
Allen
Sterling
Lambert
Sturridge

rest Key Players = forfeit the Europa League, yeah sounds like a brilliant plan, i seem to recall us doing that in the Champions Leeague in order to prepare for Chelsea, how did that end up.

We need an away goal to kill the tie, I think Sturridge and Balotelli will start this game for the first time in a while, both were rested for this game. Midfielders can be juggled around so Gerrard might get a game at the stadium he won the CL. Sakho might come back in defence if he is fit. A goal and good defending is all we need, we should qualify to the round of 16 without trouble.

Did we not play one of our best games in the ECL at Madrid?? Still, I'm sure you'll be more than happy to see us lose.

I think we'll go with a strong line up. Try and get an early goal and then maybe take a few off at half time or early second half.

Marko's still got an EL ban for that red card against Basel.

I want us to start with our strongest squad and make substitutions in the second half if we're a goal or two up. If we score one then they have to score three... and so on..

To be honest, I don't think we have all that many players who are considerably weaker than others anyway... I think it's quite an even spread talent wise across the board, so even if Rodgers does field a "weakened side" the difference will be marginal.

The only player that I would think needs a rest would be maybe Coutinho. Sturridge and Mario should be fresh as daisies, and Sterling's had a fair amount of rest lately.

I'd like to see:

-----------Migs

--Toure Skrtel Lovren

Ibe--Henderson Can--Moreno

-----------Sterling

------Balotelli--Studge

Subs: Lallana, Jones, Phil, Allen, Johnson, Lambert, Borini, Manquillo

Decent line up, but would be tempted to play Can at the back - just for the simple fact that too many changes back there could create problems again.

We've stopped leaking goals finally, don't want to push our luck.