Team for Tuesday

[BigPapi]

Lucas will play his attacking role...and score

[SB]

The Railwaymen have prepared well for the game and Holland even took his squad on the Anfield stadium tour last week.

"Liverpool can be a daunting experience so I took the whole of the squad to Anfield to do the tour," he added.

"I didn't anticipate we would have a lot of players with experience of playing at Anfield, but what I didn't realise was that the vast majority here never even been there.

"So we got it out of the way. We took all the photographs, we let the jaws hit the running track when we went down the tunnel and touched the 'This is Anfield' sign and we did the tourist bit.

"Perhaps that will stop the 'rabbit in the headlights' effect on the night."

[dww]

Plessis and Lucas, interesting. Eitehr Lucas will play more of a free role than he has to date, which would be interesting to watch, or we'll have 2 **** DMs in the middle of the park.

No way do we need two DMs against Crewe at home. Lucas will hopefully be allowed to express himself.

While I think a defensive midfielder is a fine description for Plessis I would argue that it is merely lazy when describing Lucas even when he has played deep. I would say it is an equally poor description of Alonso.

I also think that the two deep lying midfielders being an inherently defensive tactic is also flawed. To my mind it should be view as a refinement of the Rinus Michel level 3 tactic where a dominant team looks to release one of it's defenders and defend with three from a selection of the back four. In a 4-2-3-1 or related 4-4-2 formations then you simply look at it as a back 6 from which when dominant you release 3 - this allows you to free both fullbacks or even centrebacks at various times and leave an acceptable defense. The added flexibility means that an intelligent team can adapt more easily to different situations and should be better able to deal with counter attacks while sacrificing nothing in attack.

[SB]

While I think a defensive midfielder is a fine description for Plessis I would argue that it is merely lazy when describing Lucas even when he has played deep. I would say it is an equally poor description of Alonso.

I also think that the two deep lying midfielders being an inherently defensive tactic is also flawed. To my mind it should be view as a refinement of the Rinus Michel level 3 tactic where a dominant team looks to release one of it's defenders and defend with three from a selection of the back four. In a 4-2-3-1 or related 4-4-2 formations then you simply look at it as a back 6 from which when dominant you release 3 - this allows you to free both fullbacks or even centrebacks at various times and leave an acceptable defense. The added flexibility means that an intelligent team can adapt more easily to different situations and should be better able to deal with counter attacks while sacrificing nothing in attack.

music to my ears

[Kenneth]

While I think a defensive midfielder is a fine description for Plessis I would argue that it is merely lazy when describing Lucas even when he has played deep. I would say it is an equally poor description of Alonso.

I also think that the two deep lying midfielders being an inherently defensive tactic is also flawed. To my mind it should be view as a refinement of the Rinus Michel level 3 tactic where a dominant team looks to release one of it's defenders and defend with three from a selection of the back four. In a 4-2-3-1 or related 4-4-2 formations then you simply look at it as a back 6 from which when dominant you release 3 - this allows you to free both fullbacks or even centrebacks at various times and leave an acceptable defense. The added flexibility means that an intelligent team can adapt more easily to different situations and should be better able to deal with counter attacks while sacrificing nothing in attack.

[Ryan_Derrick]

---------------Cavalieri-------------
Degen------Agger----Hyypia-----Insua

---------Plessis------Lucas------------
El Zar ---------Pacheco---------Babel
---------------Ngog------------

I'm assuming Degen is still injured? If so replace him with Darby or Arbeloa & Swap Pacheco for Nemeth.

[SB]

Nemeth is injured I think

[Ryan_Derrick]

Nemeth is injured I think

In that case Pacheco on the bench and Yossi in the hole.

[cled the red]

I'm assuming Degen is still injured? If so replace him with Darby or Arbeloa & Swap Pacheco for Nemeth.

Degen isn't injured - he was on the bench against Marseilles last week.

[JPK]

Cavilieri
Degen
Hyppia
Agger
Insua
El Zhar
Lucas
Plessis
Yossi
Keane
Ngog

[-V-]

I couldnt care less about the Carling cup.

I think Keane will play tonight, he needs minutes and a goal. Not sure whether Degan is fit or not, either him or Darby

.................Cavalieri
Degan.......Hyypia.....Agger.....Insua
El Zhar.......Lucas........Plessis...Yossi
............Ngog........Keane

My money is on Lucas to run the show tonight I think he will be our top player on the night. Watch out

[Paddy]

Lucarse better not start.

[Fierce]

Anyone know if there'll be any streams for this? Would like to see some of the younguns in action

[El Jefecito]

Lucarse better not start.

Aahhh, a Brendan disciple

[lfc1394]

.................Cavalieri
Degan.......Hyypia.....Agger.....Insua
El Zhar.......Lucas........Plessis...Yossi
............Ngog........Keane

That would be my team too, but Yossi is just lost on the left.