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Cant believe your preaching that Roy is getting the best out of babel. As for Kuyt, he's having the worst season in his career at liverpool

Dont seem to remember skrtel having problems with zonal marking in the seasons before last!

also, heres a stat for you emp, Chelsea conceded the highest percentage of their goals from set-pieces last season. Last season no side conceded more than 38% of their goals from set plays

Babel played a good game against Villa, and I will not take anything away from the lad, but he didn't exactly set the world alight. He would need to get a run of games and prove his worth before saying Roy is getting the best out of him.

Kuyt has struggled this season to get on the scoresheet but i feel that is due to the way we set our selves out, plus reverting back to a 4-4-2 would not help Kuyts goalscoring tally. I am a fan of the 4-4-2, but we need proper wingers

yet you seem to think roy has got that out of him?

There's a stronger team collective without Gerrard, Carragher and Torres dominating. The rest are having to do the thinking for themselves which probably benefits some of the more experienced 'outsiders' (e.g. Maxi & Meireles).

Should give the others more confidence to try another route than immediately looking for Gerrard or Torres when they return. But lest we forget we've only gotten the jump on Villa and West Ham; 2 teams who sink away from home.

agree that we are maybe a little less predictable without our stars but would still prefer to have them in the team without doubt.

for all of those Poulsen baggers out there, you're right he's been [oops] BUT, he's not getting a look in at the moment so get behind him, support him and hopefully he'll get better or move on. No point hanging [oops] on him for poor performances in the first month of the season.

spot on

Yeah, they'll be back in and welcomed but the rest of the team will have benefited from having to take responsibility while they were out.

As for Poulsen, he just doesn't have enough to warrant a place. Anything other than a 10yd pass looks beyond him, he's too slow and commits too many fouls.

Lucas at 23 already has a lot of Premiership experience. For me he steps up in the big game but playing against the tough teams who grind out results like Stoke he is annonymous.

I just think the Lucas and Meireles partnership is the best we have at the Club and should be given time to blossom, both seem to have the knack of taking it in turns of one staying and one going forward and we are reaping the benefits. I think when Gerrard returns he should replace Kuyt on the right hand side, that for me is his best position.

i agree raul and lucas work really well together and gerrard has been successful on the right before can't see why he can't play there again as ngog deserves to play up front as 4-4-2 is the best formation .