Liverpool vs Sunderland: Match Thread

[Reece]

Confirmed #LFC: Reina, Johnson, Konchesky, Carragher, Skrtel, Gerrard, Poulsen, Meireles, Cole, Kuyt, Torres.

[Reece]

Dirk Kuyt returns from injury to face Sunderland this afternoon as Roy Hodgson makes 11 changes from the side that lost to Northampton in midweek. Listen live from 2.55pm BST.

Kuyt hasn't featured for Liverpool since our 1-0 victory over West Brom on August 29.

The Liverpool XI in full is: Reina, Johnson, Konchesky, Carragher, Skrtel, Gerrard, Poulsen, Meireles, Cole, Kuyt, Torres. Subs: Jones, Kyrgiakos, Lucas, Ngog, Agger, Jovanovic, Maxi.

[Reece]

Kuyt is a machine

[Leyton388]

Wish Hodgson would **** off playing Skrtel ahead of Agger.

[Baracus]

No Agger again ffs

[Baracus]

What a boring bench?? No potential game changers

[Finnish_Red]

Wish Hodgson would **** off playing Skrtel ahead of Agger.

Can't really understand what he sees in Skrtel that makes him preferred choice to Agger.

[Leyton388]

Where is Pacheco?

[Fernandinho]

I wish Suso was 3 years older he would bean exciting player on the bench

[Fernandinho]

Where is Pacheco?

Who would you take off that bench?

[Leyton388]

Who would you take off that bench?

I'd have played Agger and left Skrtel on the bench and dropped Kyrgiakos or Lucas.

[Mostar]

Wish Hodgson would **** off playing Skrtel ahead of Agger.

Makes no sense whatsoever. Hopefully Roy's blindness will not bite us in the arse..

[Fernandinho]

I'd have played Agger and left Skrtel on the bench and dropped Kyrgiakos or Lucas.

If you wanted Dani in surely it would have to be one of the midfielders who misses out, i.e kuyt or maxi

[Leyton388]

Makes no sense whatsoever. Hopefully Roy's blindness will not bite us in the arse..

I want to get behind Roy but his decisions and his defeatist attitude is making it bloody hard.

[Shaggy]

Pacheco brings more to the table than Maxi in his current form and state of mind. We need some unpredictability. We have none.