Match Thread: Liverpool v Man City

Johnson is not fit enough to be in the squad but Fabio Aurelio, Albert Riera and Yossi Benayoun all make the bench.
  
Gerrard returns for his first start since mid-October.
  
The Reds XI in full is: Reina, Skrtel, Carragher, Agger, Insua, Mascherano, Lucas, Kuyt, Gerrard, Babel, Ngog.

Subs: Cavalieri, Aquilani, El Zhar, Aurelio, Riera, Benayoun, Kyrgiakos.

Sweet...bring it on... 41 mins left...can't wait.

Come on You Mighty Reds.

Carra at right back, then. Hopefully N'gog can keep his form up and Ryan Babel to get any sort of form at all.

Pump it up, Red men!

No Voronin??

Rafa's cracking up ;O)

Subs: Cavalieri, Aquilani, El Zhar, Aurelio, Riera, Benayoun, Kyrgiakos.

Very interesting - considering some of those were supposedly out for a couple of weeks.

There's definately enough quality there to beat these.

Come on you Reds!

I fancy our chances today. These lot have very high opinions of themselves which should give us more than a few opportunities to get in at them!

I'm gettiing confused by the countdown at the top of the page it is 30mins till kick off isn't it?

Bloody early kick offs...I should still be asleep!

12:45 Kick-off

Carra at right back? Only concern for me.

Still feel we can do these though.

Come on You Reds!

12:45 Kick-off

Ok then cheers mate.

Come on red men lets get it going off down my dads to watch the game lets hope our season gets back on track  3  1 for me.

Four people on the bench that could potentially change a game.

Come on you reds!! That's a good team capable of getting a good result. 

Nice to players coming back from their injuries as well. 

Nice to players coming back from their injuries as well. 

You're right, it is - and hopefully they are now free of injury and haven't been brought back too early!

At lease now we have a strong bench

welcome back El zhar

Given
Zabaleta
Toure
Lescott
Bridge
De Jong
Barry
Ireland
Wright Phillips
Bellamy
Adebayor

Beatable. Most definitely. Insua v SWP will be the big match up as well as Bellamy v Carra.

Come On You Reds

Feeling quietly confident that we'll do the business today, hope Babel steps up to the mark and shows us some quality in a rare start, and N'gog as well gets another goal, enjoy the game folks, I'm off downstairs to watch it.

Good Luck Liverpool, time to kick start our season.

Morning all! Come on you Reds!

Rafa's singing YNWA