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Nah, Joey was a good boy yesterday and sensibly stayed away from any tackles I agree i think 4-3-3 will remain in place, but only if Kalou can continue his form because i don't believe it is effective enough with Malouda or SWP on the wings especially for the bigger games. If we was going for a 4-4-2 i think the Mikel and Ballack central combination would be the best to go with.

Lol, bit hard to call though isn't it. 9 straight wins and 2 draws isn't bad, plus a cup final in 2 weeks time. I wouldn't say Liverpool was inventive, they had 2 outlets long ball to Crouch and the ball to Babel who had the beating of Belletti...

I would not be suprised at all if Kalou was our top assist maker. And Cech was another of the good performers. Some big choices to make now for the team - formation, team selection ect... can Anelka play on the wing and play with Drogba? Will we go for 2 up top? Midfield 3 or 4?

Kalou has been pretty impressive all season to be honest, a real livewire that defences can't handle, his assists and goals have been first class this season, can't wait to have him back. Good call on Ashley Cole, it was obvious from the start he was a man with a point to prove and he did very well. Mikel was class when he came on but Riccy and Alex again were very solid.

Everything about that game yesterday was dour, Liverpools game plan was to completely stifle the game and pump long balls up to the freak! we had no invention in our team to open the game up and it turned into a bore-fest! Time will tell in these circumstances i feel. If the man isn't good enough to manage the team, sooner or later it will be shown up! If it isn't shown up and we keep on winning then great. Happy Days either way

Thought Mikel did very well replacing Lampard and it had an impact on the control of our play. Malouda is a very odd player for me, in general his performances are not that great but he will pop up once or twice a game and do something to make an impact, he is a little lightweight too. Kalou would have been ideal with Joe on the right and SWP down the middle because the scousers love it when the game is slowed down and they would have struggled with them.

I just can't see how any other manager could have done any better since Jose left. With injuries and the ACN added to the turmoil of losing our most successful manger we have gone on to be challenging for all 4 cups still in February.......... Until things start going tits up we have nothing to complain about. I can understand people are not happy about not beating the Scousers which is why there has been an upsurge in the posts on the anti-grant threads, but we didn't lose and games against the other big 3 clubs can go either way all the time and seasons are not won on those games.

God forbit anyone should say anything negative about those scumbags!!!!

I wouldn't say that. What manager in their right mind would come into a team like ours with the players we have in the middle of the season and try and changes things around too much, it is suicide and would have left us struggling to compete in anything. Come the start of next season there will more than likely be a lot more changes, the fact is we don't have the players for a fast attacking style of football.

Bottom line of that game was that our passing was poor, actually it was beyond poor it was bloody awful!!! SWP isn't half the player when played on the wing, either play him inside or not at all. Our attacking threat was cut down by Lamps and Ballack both being man marked and Maka isn't going to get forward and with SWP being non-existant the only threat we had was from J.Cole and Anelka. We are definately missing a cut and thrust impact player in the central midfield which SWP has brought to us but we need someone who can do it even better. We played a lot better when Mikel came on and brought some decent passing to the midfield at last. We needed to win that game and it was an oppertunity missed with Man you losing.

Lol bold talking there. If you read between the line though he is actually saying "We will sell for 30 million Euros"..... for the right price they will sell. We should have paid what they wanted in the summer, outstanding player.

Lol, he is hardly Roy f**king Keane though is he

Absolutely, he has come on massively and he can take key players completely out of the game by marking them throughout which he has done this season a number of times.

Will be great to have the lad back. Has been outstanding for us this season and will be vital for us against Liverpoo. He has been pretty harshly treated with his red cards to be fair, but he is young and will learn and is learning.

Launch a new bid? I would rather launch the f**ker into space!!!!!

He is actually still only 19. Defenders tend to break through later, mainly because they need to be allowed to grow a bit physically to be able to cope with the demands of Premier League football. The club have talked a lot recently about keeping players on longer because some players develop a lot later than others so they give them the extra time, i would be suprised to see Worley go now.

A striker line up of Drogba, Anelka and Huntelaar would be f**king awesome. It also depends on if in the long run we are going to play 2 strikers or 1....

I would be very very suprised if the club were so willing to let him go just like that! Especially considering they have given older and less able players like Pettigrew, Grant and Younghusband more time to prove themselves.

I think there is a high likelyhood that both Pizarro and Sheva could be leaving in the summer. So even if Drogba does stay i would like to see us sign a striker, and Huntelaar along with players like Benzema are exactly the type of player we should be looking at.

Don't worry, i am sure Torres will miraculously recover from his injury in time for Sunday!

Yup, couldn't agree more.... Oh by the way, you forgot to mention Gerrard is a c**t!!

Are you seriously saying you would prefer to have SWP as a winger than Ronaldinho???

Errrrrrrrrrrrm............. NO!!!! Would be disruptive to our TEAM style to have a one man band running round the pitch like a lunatic trying to do everything himself and pinging 100mph balls to his teammates and into the stands.

Lol, would be typical but i think we will do well with everyone back. Lots of competition ect...

Given the fact that we have just been on an amazing run with virtually a whole first choice team missing and we are playing well as a unit and defensively strong again, i would have to say that now we are getting players back again i think we will finish either first or second although it is a tough one to call and any of the top 3 could finish in any of the 3 spots. I just feel our end to the season is going to be stronger than the others