Your Starting 11

OK Reds fans ... There's a lot of you posting about the rotation policy and how bollocks it is ... well I agree!  We need to stabalise, get the confidence up and start posting 3 points every week.  So the question is if you were Rafa for a day ... who would your best starting 11 be???

So here's my best 11 (of the current squad and fit)

Goals - Reina
Defence - Finnan, Carragher, Agger, Riise
Midfields - Sissoko, Gerrard, Alonso, Gonzalez
Forward - Kuyt, Bellamy

I'm interested to see your teams ....

adelaide UTD.......no way.....  sydney FC mate    

i would go with a 3-5-2 formation due to our surplus of midfielders

                 reina

      finnan cara agger

                 sissoko
  garcia     alonso     risse
                 gerrard

          kuyt   bellamy

bench: dudek, hypia, gonzalez, pennant,crouch

the team i would stick with:

-----------------reina
--finnan---carra---agger---riise
----------------sissoko
--------gerrard-----alonso
----------------garcia
----------bellamy----kuyt

diamond formation which is attacking and good deffensively

What's the point in us playing the diamond formation???

We specifically bought wingers this year because we were playing too narrow last year and Rafa is trying to emulate his Valencia side.

We have the wingers, we have the big target man with the pacy striker playing off him.

It's not rocket science.

Formations are all very good but until the players start performing then all these options won't help.

REINA

               FINNAN        CARRA    AGGER      WARNOCK


                GERRARD    SISSOKO    ALONSO      RISSSE


                            BELLAMY        CROUCH

     PS...... I'D GIVE STEVIE G A FREE ROLE FROM THE RIGHT.

KoolKidda:

 o yea i know we bought wingers too give us width but this post is about what team you would play and thats the team i would play soo..

Reina

                 Finnan        Carragher       Hyypia       Riise


                 Garcia         Gerrard           Alonso       Kewell


                                    Kuyt               Crouch


I think this is a strong starting line up, with the exception of garcia.
This back four is the best we have and is very solid, the only change i would make to the defence would be Agger for Hyypia.
The midfield  is good, you could swap around Alonso and Sissoko depending on the type of game home or away for defensive purposes .  Garcia should be replaced  for though away games and home games when we need to keep possesion more.

REINA
FINNAN CARRA AGGER WARNOCK
GERRARD SISSOKO ALONSO KEWELL
             KUYT BELLAMY




i think at the moment this would be liverpools safest bet but with kewell injured id seriously consider dropping alonso and shifting gerrard back to the middle and maybe playing pennant out on the right, i feel alonso just isnt performing at the moment and id much prefer an under par gerrard than an under par alonso,as for defensively i think risse isnt playing well enough ther so warnock should get the nod along with agger who i think has more than shown his worth,then up front i think kuyt and bellamy could turn into a lethal combination with the right team around them,i think crouch is a great player but as a strike partnership goes i think this one could well be our best option

seeing as a couple people expressed theyre interest in this, thought id bring it up again. also considering in your subs as they will change the formation out of your starting 11. where would you make the changes?

well who's your starting 11?

mine would be:


--------------Reina----------------
Finnan---Carra---Agger---Riise
-------Masch-----Alonso---------
--Stevie G--------------Kewell--
-------Voronin----Torres--------

subs: kuyt, babel, crouch, pennant, sissoko, hippia

---------------------------------------REINA------------------------------------------
FINNAN-------------------CARRAGHER----------AGGER-------------------ARBELOA

--------------------------------------ALONSO------------------------------------------

PENNANT------------------------------------------------------------------BABEL----------

------------------------------------------  STEVIE G-----------------------------------------

-----------------------------TORRES-----------------VORONIN----------------------------


BENCH: KUYT, YOSSI, KEWELL, MASCHERANO, ITANDJE

tactic: stevie able to play more attacking and push forward to become a third striker.....babel and pennant switching sides when needed...alonso dictating play and running the show from defence to set up our attacks....

Either:

                    Reina

Finnan  Carragher  Agger  Arbeloa

Pennant Gerrard Masherano Leto

         Torres  Babel   

Subs : Itandje Hyypia Benayoun Alonso Kuyt

I think this should be used in most matches. Plenty of variety in the team and have the players on the bench to impact the game when they come on. Babel deserves his chance to shine at striker, i think it wont hurt to try him there since it cant get worse. With an atttacking mentality before a defensive one it is a lethal line up.

or:

                  Reina

Finnan  Carragher  Agger  Arbeloa

  Pennant  Gerrard  Benayoun

     Voronin  Torres   Babel

Subs: Itandje Hyypia Alonso Sissoko Kuyt

A team to be used for those game we should win against lesser teams. Its all about attack in this formation which is what is needed to beat those teams. Could even drop Babel to the left mid and bring in Sissoko to win the ball all day.

Looks good but things dont always work out as planned as Rafa should know.

i think this is ok
--------------Reina----------------
Finnan---Carra---Agger---Riise
-------Masch-----Alonso---------
--Stevie G--------------Kewell--
-------Voronin----Torres--------

                                                    REINA

FINNAN                           CARRA                 AGGER              ARBELOA

                                                 
                         GERRARD                         MASCH                             

KUYT                  TORRES            VORONIN                   BABEL

BOUT TIME WE GOT MORE ATTACK MINDED   
     

4 strikers?? abit risky dont you think Brian?? thats alot of work for stevie and mascha to do in the middle of the park, and alot of work for the opposition to play around with the ball- their 4 midfielders versus our 2?? quite questionable....

-------------------------Reina---------------------------

Finnan-----Carragher-----Agger---------Arbeloa
                                                           

Benayoun-----------Mascherano-------Babel--------

---------------------Gerrard---------------------------

----------------Kuyt----------Torres------------------

Bench: Itandje,Hyypia,Alonso,Pennant,Voronin

             

                          Reina

  finnan----------Carragher---------Agger----------Arbolea
                                                                   (risse)
            Pennant -------Alonso----------Babel
          (Benayoun)     (Masch.)
                            Gerrard
                 Kuyt---------------Torres
              (voronin)
    By the way bring back Carson from villa........hope we dont loose him too as we did Kirkland

4 strikers?? abit risky dont you think Brian?? thats alot of work for stevie and mascha to do in the middle of the park, and alot of work for the opposition to play around with the ball- their 4 midfielders versus our 2?? quite questionable....

its a formation that could easily become a 4 4 2 with kuyt and babel dropping back and id be using it at Anfield more then away  games

------------------------------------------------reina------------------------------------------------
finnan----------------------carragher-------------agger------------------------arbeloa
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
pennant----------------------gerrard-----------alonso-------------------------benayoun
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------------torres--------------kuyt---------------------------------------

For me to get the best out of Stevie G and for him to give the best for LFC you cant give him a CM role.Here is my team and you can adapt the formation to 4-4-2 OR 4-3-3 OR 4-3-1-2 and on and on and on
Very close to Achilles post.
            Reina
finnan    Carra         Agger         Arbeloa/Riise
         Masch          Alonso
   Voronin             Stevie G        Babel
                           Torres
Subs:
Hyppia
Kewell (if ever fit)
Benayoun
Kuyt
Pennant

Hate to say, but Riise time is up.

Would sell him on in January while his value is high.

He has played his best matches in a Liverpool shirt.

...now shoot me down...

It's all lovely to typing names on the screen but who we are playing and in which competition influences big time who will be on the pitch the only exceptions would be Reina, Carra, Stevie and probably Torres....

I dont agree Cy.
You should play your team and let the opposition worry about you. the only exception to this is if you for examle only need a draw or narrow defeat, Eg in a cup competition,you might line up differently.
but in the league you need to try and win every game - so play a team to win and not a team to avoid defeat.
The team I list above is in the context of the league which is LFCs main aim or at least should be the main aim now.