Carling Cup - Chelsea v Liverpool - 29th Nov 19:45pm

I'd change a few players

                        Reina

Kelly   Carragher         Coates     Aurelio     

Maxi    Spearing         Henderson    Downing

                      Bellamy

                      Carroll

We have a strong squad, I make that 8 changes to the starting XI from yesterday, yet still that could give any side in England a game.

Being the first team to give City a game we should go into this really positive. Should still play our strongest team.

John Terry is banned for this one gutted wanted us to make him fall on his arse again

Then again Luiz and Alex could well be done by Andy in the air where Terry is quite strong.

I expect Carroll to shine in this one

I'd change a few players

                        Reina

Kelly   Carragher         Coates     Aurelio     

Maxi    Spearing         Henderson    Downing

                      Bellamy

                      Carroll

We have a strong squad, I make that 8 changes to the starting XI from yesterday, yet still that could give any side in England a game.

Yes. Good idea. Give Bellamy a run out after the weekend. Get his head back into things.
Andy needs a full 90.
Jay has been patient.
Even stick Doni in and give Pepe a night off.
Agree with all of the rest.

CL is still the priorita... as Cartman would say.

^ Terry got himself booked on purpose, mysteriously took a throw in (why would a CB do that?) and took ages over it so that the referee would book him.

Cheating cu*ts.

i do feel were lacking depth in the midfield for this one

              Doni
Kelly  Carra Wilson  Aurelio
            Lucas
Hendo    Spearing Maxi
             Bellamy
                Carroll

                             Reina
               Kelly Carra Coates Aurelio?
                      Lucas Spearing
                         Henderson
                 Bellamy Carroll Maxi

Cannot put a weak side out, No youngsters exept from Spearing and Kelly due to the fact they have proved themselves fantastically.
I know we beat them in the league, but they still are no push-overs... And its our only trophy in sight at the moment.

                             


                            Reina

Kelly         Carra            Skrtel          Aurelio

                   Lucas    Spearing                                                       Bring on Suarez, Adam and Kuyt to open things up if needed.

  Maxi                                        Downing
                         Bellamy

                         Carroll

Cannot put a weak side out, No youngsters exept from Spearing and Kelly due to the fact they have proved themselves fantastically.
I know we beat them in the league, but they still are no push-overs... And its our only trophy in sight at the moment.

                             


                            Reina

Kelly         Carra            Skrtel          Aurelio

                   Lucas    Spearing                                                       Bring on Suarez, Adam and Kuyt to open things up if needed.

  Maxi                                        Downing
                         Bellamy

                         Carroll

Personally I think a bit of youth would be a good idea - they will be hungry and this is a great chance for them to shine before the Jan window - where they could either get a good loan move before next season or show us we are stronger than we thought. I agree that a weak side would be a waste - but between now and the end of the season I can see no other opportunities!

Cant see any of the players who started yesterday starting tomorrow apart from Pepe.

Think Kenny may play 3 at the back and it be something like this

            Pepe

    Kelly Carra Coates
Flanno                Robinson

      Spearing Aurellio

 Bellamy  Carroll    Maxi

Cant see any of the players who started yesterday starting tomorrow apart from Pepe.

I'm sure Kenny would like to play a couple, but I think the time factor is going to affect his decision tomorrow.

I won't be believing any leaked team news - I doubt Kenny will even know a couple of hours before the game!

Meant to put this in this thread:

I can't believe how many people are wanting to include the players who started against City in the starting 11 against Chelsea.  48 hours is not enough time for players to fully recover, and playing a 2nd game on the back of such a demanding game as we have just had against City is irresponsible in my opinion.  If we start Suarez and he pulls a hammy and is out for 4-5 weeks, we may be out of the running for CL qualification by January....  I think Suarez, Lucas, and Enrique are the players that we need to be particularly careful with as these are the ones that we do not have sufficient cover for in the squad. 

No idea what the line up will be but who ever plays, if they play as hard as we did against the Chavs last week and against City on sunday then we are in with a great chance.

Eccleston has travelled.

MartinKelly1990: Me and @NathanEccleston watchin desperate scousewives #handoverfacesmiley

Bellamy hardly travelled?

Have to say Id give Suarez a rest and Id give Kelly a run

My team for tommorow night

           Doni
 
Kelly Carragher Coates Enrique

Kuyt  Henderson Spearing Downing

   Bellamy Carroll

It's only fair to give most of the lads that played yesterday a rest i have full faith in our squad to beat Chelsea.

   

I wish I could guess what the hell Kenny has in store. Definitely think the back four will be Kelly, Carragher, Coates and Aurelio. No clue about the center of the park, but I'm sure Carroll and Bellamy will start as well.

Fancy playing this game when I am going to see Rihanna in concert tomorrow night - how inconsiderate 

I expect to see a fairly strong line up for this game, after all, Kenny's put a strong team out for every match we've played in this tournament so far, even against Exeter, a repeat of that scoreline will do me very nicely indeed , thankyou.

So I don't think this one will be any different, I'm desperate to see Carroll start the game and hope he stays on and gives a brilliant performance, I think some of the fringe players deserve a shot in the team, maybe the likes of Spearing, Aurelio etc, guessing Kenny will play a blend of experience and youth, a good bench will be essential just in case things turn sour.

After the way we played against these in the League the other week and against City on Sunday, I hold no real fears for this game, in saying that, they'll want revenge for the league defeat. So I hope our lads turn on a good display for the travelling Kop who will be there in full force. To those of you going to the game, have a great time, sing your hearts out and enjoy.

COME ON YOU MIGHTY REDS !!!!

I'd go with our strongest possible line-up, this is our first chance of silverware and a ticket into europe, i'd take it as seriously as any premier league game, its not like were in Europe too.

I hope they put on a good display too MsGerrard
I'm travelling down for the day at about 1pm ... so I don't mean to be bitter, but I will be brassed off if we put out a very weak side and lose haha

And as for the singing, don't you worry about that, Im sure me n the lads will put the rent boys in their place...... Again   

 

Well AVB saying Chelsea playing the usual players he has trusted so far in the competition so there's a good chance for us to do them again.

In two minds about this one. Im sure we can turn these over again. Won't be easy but I think we have the edge. We could also do lasting mental damage  to them when we win again, but do we realy want to ? If we are too good, Abramovich will buy half our F***ing squad in Jan ?  Bollocks, let's smash em.

I hope they put on a good display too MsGerrard
I'm travelling down for the day at about 1pm ... so I don't mean to be bitter, but I will be brassed off if we put out a very weak side and lose haha

And as for the singing, don't you worry about that, Im sure me n the lads will put the rent boys in their place...... Again   

 

Great stuff Scotty, have a great time....wish I was going, and if it's anything like Stoke it will be brilliant. Take it easy hun.