On Wednesday we welcome Northampton Town to Anfield, Bill Shankly was the manager the last time we played the Cobblers. Yes, it has been 45 years, not even a dinosaur like me remembers it :-). The League 2 outfit have had a league start similar to ours, they have 7 points from 7 games and are currently in 17th place in the table.
Following our heartache at Manchester United we need a good win to bring back smiles to our faces and for the sake of our young and fringe players we really need a good cup run this year. These cup competitions are a great opportunity for many of the reserve players to get some first team play-time so yes the game is very important. Some might poo-poo the Carling cup but I strongly believe it is important for the development of our young players and based on our lack of transfer budget we really need these players to get up to first-team level quick.
Roy will most probably rest most (if not all) the players that started against Manchester United on Sunday.
Dirk Kuyt and Fabio Aurelio are still injured. Lucas Leiva who didn’t feature on Sunday will probably wear the captain’s arm band as he did during some of the pre-season games.
Predicted lineup:
Brad Jones, Martin Kelly, Danny Wilson, Sotiris Kyrgiakos, Daniel Agger, Milan Jovanovic, Jay Spearing, Lucas Leiva, Dani Pacheco, Ryan Babel, David Amoo
Kick off is at 8PM BST
Live match update on Twitter @empireofthekop
first of all i hope you’re feeling better.
i agree with your predicted formation. seems good for such a game.
i guess that if we have a good result in the half time … hodgson will introduce the highly rated shelvey in lucas’s place. in my opinion, i will give konchesky a place in the starting 11 for tomorrow’s game. he struggled last sunday.
my predicted team
jones
kelly wilson kyriakos konchesky
spearing lucas/shelvey
amoo jovanovic
pacheco
babel
I am doing better, thanks Owen.
I think Lucas is still lacking that something special at EPL.
Just like Torres/Maxi, he’s not at his best form. Mentally I should say?
Really hope Roy might wanna try out Gerrard with Raul for a few min or so?
Never see them pair up before.
Gerrard, Poulsen, Raul are good Mid-field player.
I think that we should let Maxi get back the “feeling” at
Europa League? What do you think? [: No offense!
hodgson try to not make the liverpool team pyscopath pls
we love u el nino wake up
At last we get to see Danny Wilson. Lova that. :-9