Birmingham (a) - Build Up

[Ben_Itez]

Selection dilemmas for Rafa. Be hard for him to judge how knackered the players are after Thursday's exertions. Personally i'd go fairly attacking and play Kuyt up front with Torres, to shoulder the physical burden, letting Nando roam with Gerrard dropping into Midfield with Mascherano.

My team:

Reina

Johnson
Carra
Agger
Insua

Mascherano
Gerrard

Maxi
Kuyt
Babel

Torres

Subs:

Cavalieri, Kyrgiakos, Lucas, Pacheco, Ngog, Benayoun, Degen

Injured: Skrtel, Aurelio, Kelly, Aquilani

On Loan: Darby, Spearing, Ecclestone (who've been involved this year)

On the fringes: Riera, El Zhar, Gulacsi, Ayala, Irwin, Plessis, Amoo?, Dalla Valle? Mavinga?

[Rich]

Play Babel, he should but in a great performance. I can feel it.

[Baracus]

Babel Up front with Torres on the left. Can't be any worse than Thursday

[Baracus]

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Pepe

- - - - - - - - The Scouse - The Greek - - The Dane
Johnson - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Insua
- - - - - - - - - ------Mascherano - - - - - - - - - - --
- - - - - - Kuyt- - - - -- - - - - - - - - Maxi - - - - - - -
- - - - - - - - - - - - Torrad - - - - - - - - - - - - -

[wiw]

Nice looking team that ^ . Gerrard could definitely do with a rest and it's about time we gave Torrad his debut

[Craig_H]

Reina
Johnson Agger Kyrgiakos Carra
Mascher Lucas
Babel Gerrard Yossi
Torres

Subs:
Cavalieri, Insua, Degen, Aquilani, Kuyt, Maxi, N'Gog

[Matt]

Mostly the same team as against Sunderland please. Greek in for Insua, Agger at left back (I'll say this every game til I'm blue in the face...)

Only Carragher and Reina have played more minutes than young Emily this season and the girl needs a rest/to be taken out of the firing line for a bit.

[Exiled_red]

Play Babel, he should but in a great performance. I can feel it.

I was thinking the same hopefully he'll be wanting to make up for thursday

[The Birdman]

Tough game for us this, I think it's our hardest remaining game because Chelsea at home will take care of it's self as it's a big game. May team would be -
Reina
Johnson Carra Kyriakos Insua
Mascher Gerrard
Maxi Kuyt Babel
Torres

Insua, Maxi and Babel all have to play for me because they can't on Thursday so it will freshen it up a little.
Rafa mentioned in an interview that they still need to be careful with Agger and with Insua out for Thursday we can't risk losing him as well

[Exiled_red]

Tough game for us this, I think it's our hardest remaining game because Chelsea at home will take care of it's self as it's a big game. May team would be -
Reina
Johnson Carra Kyriakos Insua
Mascher Gerrard
Maxi Kuyt Babel
Torres

Insua, Maxi and Babel all have to play for me because they can't on Thursday so it will freshen it up a little.
Rafa mentioned in an interview that they still need to be careful with Agger and with Insua out for Thursday we can't risk losing him as well

[Armchairkopite]

I am worried about Gerrard, he looked as tired as I have ever seen him at the end of the Benfica game the other night.

[lickedlollipop]

again sunday

[Exiled_red]

again sunday

Sunday fixtures are a consequence of being in the Europa League

[Vermilion]

So they've not been beaten by one of the so called top 4 this season at home....well, there's a first time for everything....hopefully.

I really worry about KP, he's a goal scorer, and he's been scoring some big ones this season.

[Baracus]

Records are there to be broken. We should know that look at the 18 titles record