I think Liverpool can afford to use this match to give some playtime to fringe players, or test them in new positions (for example if we want to try Johnson RW with Kelly behind, or give a wide forward role to Suarez in a 4-3-3) and still get a comfortable win.
I'd start with 2 or 3 players from this list : Bellamy (desserve another start after his last good performance), Spearing (same), Coates (when will he play if he doesn't start against easiest teams at home ?), Maxi (Downing need to realise he's not guaranteed to start if he doesn't perform), Kuyt (back to the RW position where he gave his best performances, with Henderson playing in the middle), Kelly (considering Johnson is fit and will probably be our RB against better teams, it's the kind of match where to give him playtime), Robinson/Aurelio or even Doni (like I said in Pepe's thread, it may be time to change the "Pepe play all games" policy).
In last game starters the only ones I think it would be a bad idea to replace are Suarez and Carroll (Suarez would become mad if he is rested and they need to play together to continue developping their partnership) and Henderson (big improvement in last games, need to be showed he'll be rewarded if he continues in this direction). Out of that one of the usually good players (Lucas, Skrtel, Enrique) can probably be rested for that easy game while they are guaranteed starters for harder ones, Agger always comes with a risk of injury and can probably be economized to play Coates, and reminding others that there are other options for every position wouldn't be that bad (not really convinced by Jonhson and Downing especially).
And I don't think this kind of team (for example, many other possibilities with the good squad we now have) :
Pepe
Kelly Coates Agger/Skrtel Enrique
Lucas/Adam Spearing
Henderson
Suarez <-> Bellamy
Carroll
... would be too weak to beat Swansea.
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