Pre-Match: Man City v LFC (Carling Cup semi-final 1st leg)

Take a draw tomorrow night, no more slip ups from Pepe fingers crossed ! Sure that we can win the game back at Anfield.

Lets discuss this more....

One day to go until the Semi Final and only two pages.
F***ing Manc game has this overshadowed.

Would be happy with a score draw to bring back to Anfield.
Would be delighted with a win.

Will be interesting to see how the teams line up for this.
Has to be a strong team for us IMO.

With Gerrard back, I think the whole team will perform better, especially Carroll, who surely must benefit from the return of Gerrard in the side, our back four picks itself, it is only a matter of the forwards scoring more form the chances created. Hope fully Bellamy, can play a part despite his knee problems, he does have a knack of being able to score, also think Shelvey is a most improved player after his loan spell form Blackpool.

Will probably need to rotate a few players, but I'd love to see Gerrard, Spearing and Shelvey in the centre again.

One day to go until the Semi Final and only two pages.
F***ing Manc game has this overshadowed.

Would be happy with a score draw to bring back to Anfield.
Would be delighted with a win.

Will be interesting to see how the teams line up for this.
Has to be a strong team for us IMO.

Spot on this....

A semi final is far more important than a 4th round game.

Possible City Line up.
No Toure player available.
Strikers out.

Would like some payback for this sh*t:

Manchester City vs. FC Liverpool 3-0 All Goals

Silva's a doubt.

Silva's a doubt.

Rested or injured.

:Opens FPL in other tab.

Ha Kompany will miss both legs. Red card stands.

Only differance is Kompany plays for Man City so he will get away with it

Four match ban, F***ing told you all, misses both of our games.

GET IN!!!

No Kompany or Toure for both matches. All we need to do is to be ruthless and this could be a rout, five or six on aggregate me thinks.

A 4 game ban for that tackle is quite frankly a disgrace. Helps us like but that wasn't the FA's motives. It's to F**k City up.

Apparently this lad will be playing for them now. 17 year old Karim Rekik.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karim_Rekik

Actually they have Savic and Elephant man as well.

Four match ban for that tackle is a disgrace.
Ah well every cloud has a silver lining.
In this case it's missing both of our games.

Edit: 3 pages.
About time.

Just read that Mario Balotelli, Edin Dzeko and David Silva are doubts, but Gareth Barry is back from suspension. with Kompanys red card standing too and on the back of a home defeat this is great news for us

Looking forward to this game. After the last I'm really confident we can get a good result at theirs and then finish them off at our place. Kompany and the Toure's will be a big loss for them. They will lack so much creativity. We just have to watch Aguero, he was awesome against United and is really the only danger they pose.

Can't wait, come on everyone its a f*cking Semi-Final, looking at the lack of posts on this thread you would think it's a 3rd round match!

I expect they will line up:

Hart

Richards
Lescott
Savic
Clichy

Milner
Barry
De Jong
Johnson

Nasri
Aguero

well maybe City will feel a bit how we feel about the FA its a closed shop and run by people with closed minds.
We have a great chance if we put any chances away if we F**k about in front of goal we will get penalised for it.

I expect they will line up:

Hart

Richards
Lescott
Savic
Clichy

Milner
Barry
De Jong
Johnson

Nasri
Aguero

Lets keep our eye on the two wide men Milner and Johnson and of course Aguero but apart from that, we should win!

'David Silva is a doubt for Wednesday's home tie against Liverpool, along with fellow strikers Mario Balotelli and Edin Dzeko, while Yaya and Kolo Toure are on Africa Cup of Nations duty.

Mancini was forced to include Abdul Razak and Denis Suarez, who have just six first-team appearances between them, on the bench against United and is now considering involving 17-year-old Dutch defender Karim Rekik in the set-up.'

From BBC

Will probably need to rotate a few players, but I'd love to see Gerrard, Spearing and Shelvey in the centre again.

Like your line-up Racer, but to be honest and I know we can run Bellers in the ground but I don't want Kuyt anywhere near the starting XI; he has lost more than one cylinder this season.

Like your line-up Racer, but to be honest and I know we can run Bellers in the ground but I don't want Kuyt anywhere near the starting XI; he has lost more than one cylinder this season.

I'll let you start Maxi so.