Pre-Match: FA Cup Semi Final - Aston Villa v Liverpool

BT sports.which means the local will be showing it on Italian sky oddly.

Really odd, aw it'd be cool if it'd be shown on BBC or ITV for once, maybe this is how I get frustrated because they'll shown one leg of the CL or Europa or League cups then because the rights can be sold, because of the fanbase that the club cashes in. It's a thing that happens and we don't really see the rewards.

I'll be there. Can't wait.

Gone for a narrow 1  0 win for the Reds in today's game.

I'll be driving down from the shire in a couple of hours. Looking forward to it

Of course would love a show and a performance - but would take a scrappy one nil of balo's left testicle it got us to the cup final

I hope that who does the thread delivers us to the final. You have my blessing

I hope that Gerrard have a good game and scores.

YNWA

C'mon the redmen. Let's do this. !

C'mon the redmen. Let's do this. !

 5+ hours to go, let go red man, we go again!

YNWA

 

I'll take a shitty scrappy 1-0 with a own goal today, Villa have hit a bit of form where we have had a blip, Sherwood has them playing well and made them a much bigger threat,
I can see us going back to 3 at the back with Skrtle Can & Lovren, not sure Lucas will be fit so it's possible Ste will play from the get go partnering Hendo & Allen, a front three of Sterling, Coutinho and hopefully Sturridge but more likely to be Markovic, with Glen & Albert as wb's,

Seriously hope Lucas is fit tho, Ste won't last beyond 70 odd mins and if we are chasing it could F**k us up big time, but bringing Ste on around the hour would boost everyone and most probably take us over the line ,

It's written in the stars ppl, we had the Gerrard final pt1 against the Hammers, this time it's pt2 the Gerrard swan song final,

2-1 mighty Reds

YNWA

Got a bit of a bad feeling about this me. Probably a good thing as I'm normally wrong.

Fancy us doing Arsenal if we get past Villa today.

Mark Benteke well and we'll win this easily.

No sign of Lucas in the training pics so I'm guessing he's out.  Sturridge hasn't travelled and rumour is Stevie starts in a front 3.

So if it's a 433?

Migs

Glen/Can?
Skrtel
Lovren
Moreno

Allen
Hendo
Can/Coutinho?

Coutinho/Markovic?
Sterling
Stevie

Ffs. We need Lucas, hope he is ok.

No sign of Lucas in the training pics so I'm guessing he's out.  Sturridge hasn't travelled and rumour is Stevie starts in a front 3.

So if it's a 433?

Migs

Glen/Can?
Skrtel
Lovren
Moreno

Allen
Hendo
Can/Coutinho?

Coutinho/Markovic?
Sterling
Stevie

Bad news if Lucas is out and I had a feeling Sturridge wouldn't play.

With that I think Brendan is likely to play Glen and move Can into midfield.

Front three of Stevie, Sterling and Phil.

Lucas definitely out.

@TonyBarretTimes  5 mins5 minutes ago
Blow for Liverpool as Lucas Leiva set to miss today's FA Cup semi final with a thigh injury.

Bad news if Lucas is out and I had a feeling Sturridge wouldn't play.

With that I think Brendan is likely to play Glen and move Can into midfield.

Front three of Stevie, Sterling and Phil.

So we might actually get to see a Can/Allen/Hendo midfield then. 

Big game for them all but this could be our future midfield?  Maybe not those 3 individuals but I'm expecting these 3 to play midfield how I think Brendan has been aiming for these last 3 seasons.  Technically good players who can and will interchange their positions throughout the game, if it happens today I'm looking forward to it.

Love it.

I was hoping Arsenal would lose to get any possible 'upset' out of the way.... and a big blow with Lucas out, I'm extremely nervous for this.... I'm gonna go with a 2-1 win though, Coutinho and Gerrard late on.

Unlucky Lucas. Lads need to win to get him to final.

Yeah, but it's no 4th place 

He produces the second most key passes in the team and has the highest number of second assists; he's still a good bet offensively. For me, whether he starts really depends on the formation we are playing.

what is a second assist ?

Soulless place, but hope the travelling fans can lift the roof off that place.