To lighten the mood - Vs Reading on Tuesday

[lfcruleus]

No chance of torres starting imo, Crouch and Crow or maybe one of the kids, crouch deffo though

[Shaggy]

Oh...and Crouch/Voronin together up front would be painfully slow...

Never stopped Rafa.

The Crouch/Morientes partnership must've been one of the slowest ever, but Rafa persisted with it. In fact Kuyt/Voronin on Saturday was another painfully slow partnership - not that Saturday's performance was a good advert. In fact, any permutation of our 'other three' strikers (excluding Torres of course) is a slow one.

Not much we can do...we're stuck with 'em.

[Craig_H]

You know, i think the arrival of Torres and the explosive start he's had has raised the bar considerably, when it comes to strikers. We've seen first hand what a TOP striker looks like and having had to wait for so long to do so, a lot of us had forgotten. Now we've seen it, the other three just dont match up.

[thesilverfoxlfc]

Play a week side with one or two on the fringe's and i would be overly upset if we lost it would be great to win with a youth team plus a few fringe 1st teamers, great for confidence

[peekay]

Itandje

Arbeloa
Hobbs
Carra
Insua

Benayoun
Lucas
Sissoko
Leto

Crouch
Linfield

Subs: Martin, San Jose,El Zhar, Putterill, Pacheco*/Voronin

* Bit of a wild choice I know .

[Lee]

Benayoun Lucas Sissoko Leto

Benayoun
Sissoko
Lucas
Leto

Benayoun
Lucas
Momo
Leto

Benayoun
Lucas
Sissoko
Leto

So midfield is sorted then??

[CharlieMansonsSquint]

Crouch, Lucas, Sissoko, Aurelio, Finnan, Benayoun and Itandje will all play.

[El Jefecito]

What do we think?

I'd go:

Itandje

Arbeloa
Hobbs
Hyypia
Aurelio

Benayoun
Sissoko
Lucas
Leto

Crouch
Voronin

Subs: Martin, Insua, El Zhar, Putterill, Linfield

Summat like that anyway. I'd like to see Insua start but Aurelio needs a game, and Leto is almost certain to start on the left side of midfield.

Hobbs and Sami are too similar. I'd prefer Hobbs to start but we don't really have a "last man standing" like carra for the reserves. San Jose, maybe, but haven't seen enough of him and everyone else is on loan (apart from the 4' 1" Spearing )

We need to squeeze Insua in somewhere as well, of all the reserves he is the closest to being ready for the first team so needs to be given the chance. Fabio can get his match fitness in the first team coming off the bench.

Plessi instead of Momo and need to fit Lindfield in there somewhere.


The line up will be interesting, we should be able to tell what is most important to Rafa, based on the line up he selects.

1/ Progression of the younger players (like my lineup), or,
2/ Winning the competition.

I hope he goes for 1/

[Revo]

speedyg check your private messages for the last time

[El Jefecito]

speedyg check your private messages for the last time

edited

[AFII]

--------------Itandje
Darby----Hobbs------Hyypia----Insua
--------------Spearing
Benayoun-----Sissoko-----------Leto
------------El Zhar
--------------------Crouch

[El Jefecito]

--------------Itandje
Darby----Hobbs------Hyypia----Insua
--------------Spearing
Benayoun-----Sissoko-----------Leto
------------El Zhar
--------------------Crouch

Lucas HAS to play.

[AFII]

Lucas HAS to play.

I would play him in the PL instead. I doubt that any involved players will start the next league game.

[yukpo]

be livid if torres starts in this

[Lee]

Lucas HAS to play.

I concur mate

Lucas can play against Reading on Tuesday and our match at the weekend. It's hardly gonna give the lad burnout