Sparta Prague – Liverpool (Thursday)

Following our stalemate with Wigan we fly to Prague to take on the Czech champions in the first game of the Europa league knock-out stage.

This will be Kenny Dalglish’s first ever European game as a manager and he has already shocked the pundits by taking youngster Raheem Sterling with the squad to the Czech capital. Luis Suarez will not feature as he is cup-tied however Joe Cole and Raul Meireles might feature. Steven Gerrard, Daniel Agger, Andy Carroll, Jonjo Shelvey and Jay Spearing are all injured. I believe that Kenny will chose to put David N’Gog up front, after all David is Liverpool’s top scorer this season in Europe.

Predicted Starting XI:
Pepe Reina, Martin Kelly, Glen Johnson, Jamie Carragher, Sotirios Krygiakos, Martin Skrtel, Lucas Leiva, Raul Meireles, Maxi Rodriguez, Dirk Kuyt, David N’Gog

Kick off is at 8:05 PM GMT

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