The way it looked to me was if it would take more than a week to recover from that (Moreno). Done my ankle many times playing footy on bad pitches and if you're lucky it's a 2 week deal. Wouldn't surprise me if he actually takes a week longer as with sprains the more rest you can give them the better the recovery, it's a long old season and we should be able to cope.
Worst case is Emre Can starting at LB.
Manquillo should be perfect to step into RB though and I can't stress strongly enough how we need to be starting Markovic, not sure on his actual fitness levels so haven't included him in my set-up but if he's ready he'd be in. Get Coutinho in his natural position, or at least fighting for it with Sterling and Whack Balo/Studge up top. 2 games so far we've had to start with very defensive minded midfields and it knocks all attacking impetus out of our game.
Tired of hearing the "we're missing Suarez" sh*te when we're playing with 3 very negative midfielders, even Suarez struggled in games where he didn't get support and service.
Spurs are going to be a tough nut though and this will be very tough game for us. I very much doubt there will be a repeat of last year's result (although I never expected it then so...
) Get a narrow win and I'll be delighted.
Mig
Manquillo Skrtel Lovren Can
Gerrard
Sterling Henderson
Coutinho
Sturridge Balotelli
I'd be going with something like that with strict instructions to Manquillo to drive forward and be positive.
3-1 to the Reds!
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