Man City v Liverpool match thread

[livvy145]

Javier Mascherano replaces Robbie Keane for this afternoon's visit to Man City.

Rafa Benitez makes just one change from the side that beat PSV 3-1 in midweek.

The Liverpool XI in full is:

Reina
Arbeloa
Carragher
Skrtel
Aurelio
Mascherano
Gerrard
Riera
Kuyt
Alonso
Torres


Subs: Cavalieri, Dossena, Agger, Keane, Benayoun, Babel, Lucas.

[monkz]

**** Team.
We'll be down 2-0 at half time with a team like that.

[Red_Polo]

Back to 4-2-3-1 by the looks of it then.

Come on lads, let's take the top spot

[Rich]

As I predicted; 4231, good stuff.

[blacky]

Very strong team. One change. I think Rafa's clicked what he needs to do to win the prem.

[JPK]

Suprised Keane got rested. Especially after getting his first, you would expect Rafa to keep faith and his second and third would follow quickly like Rooney. Still Gerrard slotting into his position shows exactly how strong we are this year. Strong bench again.

[frank the tank]

good selection.....if we are winning by two with 15 or 20 to go then i would like to see keane come on for torres, lucas to come on for stevie, and agger to come on for any of the back four (with possibly carra going right back or else agger himself playing left back)

[JohnDoe]

I like the team. It's comforting to see Rafa still believes in Gerrard behind Torres when necessary.

[NicoBernetini]

Very strong bench aswell

[pondus]

Well played Rafa, I was a bit worried that we would select our team based on Citys strong areas, it seems Rafa has decided we should let them worry about us instead.

[slimbimjim]

This is a great lineup! I'm excited about seeing Robinho and Elano linking up but I think we'll give them a good game and take it 2-1.

Hold on to your hats people, Maschers gonna kick arse!

[-V-]

4231 is the right move today. Happy with that

[bigfooty]

Started well, Riera heavily involved.

[Angry Dan]

Any working streams?

[Sprouty]

http://www.veetle.com/viewChannel.php?cid=48e8b447db16f