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[cousin benson 76]

i think we might see Marin under Rafa. It will be really interesting to see what changes he makes.

[Hutcho 8,443]

i think we might see Marin under Rafa. It will be really interesting to see what changes he makes.

It would be nice to see marin. Seems like years ago, when we were watching him in pre season in the US.

[cousin benson 76]

It would be nice to see marin. Seems like years ago, when we were watching him in pre season in the US.

i know, and i watched those matches in the US and liked what i saw.

[CHOULO19 24,332]

i think we might see Marin under Rafa. It will be really interesting to see what changes he makes.

Don't think Rafa will make many changes if any in the first match. He's barely had any time to see the players training.

[Jase 43,479]

West Brom winning 2-0 at Sunderland. We're down to 4th now..

[Pizy 17,860]

West Brom winning 2-0 at Sunderland. We're down to 4th now..

Painful to see after the start we had.

From 4 points ahead on top of the league to 4th. United will thrash QPR and I think we'll lose a close one to City, so not only will they be pulling away from us, but Arsenal are heating up and have an easy fixture to go only 2 points behind us.

We really need a win tomorrow to stop this free fall. We need to get a winning streak going.

[Jase 43,479]

Meh. West Brom won 4-2 in the end. We'll start this game in 4th tomorrow.

[Strike 6,969]

Anyone going to the game, applaud in the 16th minute for Roberto

[DONI. 1,291]

We are 4th now,so we need to try to win it this game

[5354 204]

Rafa loves to play 4-4-1-1 in liverpool last time...Most likely we will not see hazard and mata to be playing so often in a same game...mata most likely to play behind torres.

torres

mata

marin/hazard - ramires - mikel - moses

a. cole - terry/cahill - ivanovic - cesar

i feel that luiz will be dropped... just like how agger was being 'ignored' under rafa

[Hutcho 8,443]

Rafa loves to play 4-4-1-1 in liverpool last time...Most likely we will not see hazard and mata to be playing so often in a same game...mata most likely to play behind torres.

torres

mata

marin/hazard - ramires - mikel - moses

a. cole - terry/cahill - ivanovic - cesar

i feel that luiz will be dropped... just like how agger was being 'ignored' under rafa

Just becuause he played 4-4-1-1 doesn't mean in the slightest that is what we will play.

[OneMoSalah 8,616]

I have to ask, and there will be a follow-up question aswell; what do you think of Cahill?

Cahill has better decision making, when to go to intercept/tackle, when to stay etc. Luiz beats him at distributing the ball out from the back though but if Luiz could sort himself out and not make mistakes he'd be a great CB. Both aren't our best CBs anyway. Ivanovic imo is our best one.

[DYC. 7,542]

I don't think Oscar has the discipline to play in the pivot under Rafa he is way too attacking imo. Rafa Liverpool side, Mascherano and Alonso were very disciplined in keeping their shape deep in midfield to protect the back four and allow the fullbacks to go forward. For me i don't think Oscar has the qualities to play in the pivot yet, especially in one which requires a lot of tactical discipline. I maybe wrong though.

Lampard is interesting choice, i think with his intelligence and experience is a capable option.

Btw this is a good article http://www.independe...eo-3302130.html

I find the assessment from the Journalist very interesting, which i think is accurate much more then general media which paints that "RDM was fired due to Torres benching, Rafa hired to get the best out of Torres." I do think RDM was fired due to not creating a unique attacking system, which i think is going to be Rafa biggest challenge along with results.

So i do wonder if we can play good attacking football with Ramires as a forward? i personally don't.

Yeah I have to agree with you on Oscar. Wishful thinking on my part.

After his appointment I immediately thought about Roman (and the board) wanting a attacking Chelsea side then why Benitez? His Liverpool team wasn't attacking and from I've read, the same goes for his Valencia team. He's not that type of manager, he's about results. So either right now it's all about the results or those plans have been ditched. Or maybe the people in charge aren't making sense (again).

About Ramires, I don't know. Klopp makes it work with Grosskreutz, who's also the unconventional hard-working type, but then again, a more natural wide player than Ramires.

[Azpinator 2,325]

Crossing my fingers for a disaster-free game.

You'd have Luiz as a DM? I'd have him as club mascot at most. Hes fucking shit. Unsure how hes got so bad, he was decent under Carlo..

He did blow it in the end.

Never gets old.

[Milan 17,835]

[TopDrogNo.11 1]

quite promising =)

[fAnta 107]

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quite promising =)

lol not goin to say anything different after not even of taking charge of a game against chelsea.

[Pacquiao 1,834]

I feel Rafa can make Mata even better than he already is which is quite frightening