Team for Preston...

[Joe King]

Cavalieri

Darby
Skrtel
Agger
Dossena

El Zhar
Lucas
Mascherano
Aurelio

N'Gog
Babel

[memzey]

Is Aurelio fit? He appears in a number of people's line ups, but I haven't heard anything on his return?

[The_weatherman]

Maybe we should play Gerrard, get it out of the way, so he can just get back to business as soon as possible. Not good sitting home thinking about recent events.

[bobbyfallon]

Maybe we should play Gerrard, get it out of the way, so he can just get back to business as soon as possible. Not good sitting home thinking about recent events.

you can just see the headlines already.

gerrard dropped and stripped of captaincy . wait and see

[Joe King]

Is Aurelio fit? He appears in a number of people's line ups, but I haven't heard anything on his return?

He was in the directors box with Rafa on Sunday. I can only presume he is on his way to fitness.

[Nicey]

I'd be tempted by:

Cavalieri
Derby Skrtel Agger Dossena
Lucas Plessis
El Zhar Keane Babel
N'Gog

Great team selection mate .. perfect

[Chris]

Maybe we should play Gerrard, get it out of the way, so he can just get back to business as soon as possible. Not good sitting home thinking about recent events.

Yep, get him back on the pitch asap, he's gonna get the "scum" "your supposed to be in jail" for a while so lets get part 1 out the way. Otherwise its just another week of "Will Gerrard play at Stoke?" "How will the Stoke fans be?" etc etc

[anfieldanfield]

Yep, get him back on the pitch asap, he's gonna get the "scum" "your supposed to be in jail" for a while so lets get part 1 out the way. Otherwise its just another week of "Will Gerrard play at Stoke?" "How will the Stoke fans be?" etc etc

Agree with that, definitely start him.

[blacky]

SG bound to start this one. Needs a game under his belt before stoke.

[DannyMan2006]

Agree with that, definitely start him.

SG bound to start this one. Needs a game under his belt before stoke.

No, rest him. No need to play him in a game of this magnitude, arrested or not. We have enough midfielders good enough to cover him. He will be playing games every few days soon so let him rest whilst he can.

I'd also want Carra to get a well deserved rest. Darby, Agger, Skrtel and Insua sounds like a good line up to me. Dossena looks to be on his way out so let Insua get games whilst he can. It's obvious Aurelio will replace him when fit.

Of the wingers well it has to be El Zhar and Babel, both deserve and need a game, having said that Adam Hammill may have something to say about that. In the middle I would think Lucas and Plessis need games whenever they can get a chance and maybe Jay Spearing deserves a long overdue chance. Mascherano also could do with a game to get back in the swing of things.

Up front N'gog is an obvous choice. For his partner well Keane and him combinded well last time out. That said Torres could do with a game, but another weeks rest would not exactly be a bad idea now would it?

Cavilieri
Darby
Agger
Skrtel
Insua
El Zhar
Lucas
Mascherano
Babel
N'Gog
Keane

Bench

Reserve Gkp - Good experience
Hyypia - Just in case
Spearing - Deserves a chance
Hammill - Let's see what he can do
Alonso - Just in case
Plessis - Needs games
Torres - Last 15?

That team has enough experience and class with the right blend of reserves. The bench has the right balance to cater for any mini disasters, and some young hopefulls if all goes well.

[pondus]

Martin Atkinson is the ref for the game. He has been in charge in one of our games earlier this season, the 0-0 draw with Villa. Last year we won 2, drew 1 and lost 2 games where he was the ref, both losses were in the cups (0-2 Chelski and 1-2 Barnsley...)

[Shaggy]

So Gerrard plays then

[JPK]

__________________ Cavilieri ________________
Darby ______ Skrtel ________ Agger _____ Insua
___________ Gerrard ________ Lucas _________
Yossi _____________ Keane ________ Babel ___
__________________ Torres ________________

[TheElephantMan]

__________________ Cavilieri ________________
Darby ______ Skrtel ________ Agger _____ Insua
___________ Gerrard ________ Lucas _________
Yossi _____________ Keane ________ Babel ___
__________________ Torres ________________

Is that the team or is it your suggestion? That lot should destroy Preston.

It's obviously your suggestion, kick-off's only at 5.25pm! I thought we were the early game.

[JPK]

Is that the team or is it your suggestion? That lot should destroy Preston.

It's obviously your suggestion, kick-off's only at 5.25pm! I thought we were the early game.

My suggestion The last few games I have seen the team named by posters on other forums though way before kick off and they were saying they had heard it was the team and were right.