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We've got a Saturday 3pm kick off, just like being back in the CL!! See Roy is a genius!

Anyways predictions, line up and fantasies for the match please, all and any welcome.

Expect meat head bruce to put out a 20 man midfield and for Roy to big up Sunderland as one of the best teams in the league after we struggle to a 1-0 victory courtesy of a deflection of a beachball

Seriously I think Sunderland have a thumping coming, Im predicting 3-0 Liverpool with Nando definitely back on the score sheet. The team will be exactly the same as last week unless Kuyt is fit in which case he will play instead of maxi. Though this is what I want to see line up:

Reina
Johnson Carra Agger Konch
Gerrard Poulsen Raul
Kuyt Torres Cole

Expect subs to come in the 95minute if we're winning if we're not then expect them around the 91st minute

Reina
Johnson Carra Agger Konchesky
Babel Meireles Gerrard Cole
Pacheco Torres

i still think babel is a right winger so i would like to see him there and even though i know pacheco doesnt have a chance of playing due to the midweek game i'd love to see him and nando up front and maybe we could attack once in a while it might help us win... but i have a horrible feeling that skrtel lucas and ngog will all start and i will go clinically insane

Think we will just about edge it, wont be pretty though and it certainly wont be comfortable, maybe 2 - 1.
I just hope Roy decides against employing two defensive midfielders, Midfield trio of Gerrard, Cole and Meireles behind a forward trio of Jovanovic one side Babel on the other with Torres in the middle. The defence needs to be Johnson and Konchesky as full backs with Skrtel and Agger in the centre, we have seen this season being cautious does'nt work so lets really go for it and have a real go for a change, we can get away with that team against Sunderland at home surely.

I think Jova will play - after finally scoring.
We should win aat least 2:0 - I expect clean sheet - no excuses!!!
Nando should score also - and everybody forget about CC...


---------------Reina--------------
Johnson---Carra-----Skrtel---Konch
-----Gerrard---Poulsen---Raul-----
Cole--------------------------Jova
---------------Torres-------------

I have a feeling we are going to see some good football from are team this weekend. I too have a 3-0 maybe 4-0 prediction.

Torres needs to buck his ideas up, stevie has given his rallying call and its time for the rest of the side to rise to it. Its crutual Raul and stevie are played in the right postions.

They need to prove they are worthy to play for LFC.

yep three or four nil. and then a poxy draw the following week. im afraid that is going to be the format this year.

if i was to make a gut prediction, i think we are going to finish 9th or 10th. i know that sounds very negative and im not trying to talk us down, but if im being honest i think its a distinct possibility.

I would love to see at 3 or 4 nil scoreline but i have a gut feeling that it will be a cagey 2-1 or 1-0 game.

After defeat on Wednesday Roy will be scared of losing and will not totally go for it. I hope i am wrong but i feel this will happen.

here is a very poor comparison to make my point but ill make it anyway:
when im playing fifa10, and i concede a goal, sometimes i go defensive to shore up the problem at the back. but after a while in the game i realise that the holes are there, not because im not defending well enough, but because the other team has too much room and can focus on attacking because they dont have to worry about me attacking. when i switch to attacking tactics the whole game changes.
now i know that its a game, and roy is dealing in real life, but at some point ya have to say "we've got nothing to lose here, so lets try something different and stick it to the opposition.
one of the great mysteries under raffa's tenure was what the hell happened to the attacking football we played the season before last. we were absolutely lethal for a few months, we looked like we had it sussed. and then it just stopped, never to be seen again.

i dont see how you guys can think we can beat any team 3-0. i personally think we will draw. if we play with two defensive mid then we are done for. you can expect no service to torres and lots of passing in our on half. i hope am wrong

We're not going to play with two defensive midfielders, it will Raul/Poulsen or Gerrard/Poulsen in the middle.

I expect a big step up this week. The lads have had more time training together, more time learning Roys style of play and Sunderland are missing key players defensively.

So I do not think us winning 2 or 3-0 is unrealistic. Your just all negged out, takes some prozan and chill out, failing that jump of bridge before you infect the rest of us!