Fulham Build up (away)

[danperkins]

I wouldnt foresee a massively 'battlesome' midfield area against Fulham though, it's not their game.

I'd go with:

Reina
Flanno Carra Sktrel Johnson
Spearing Meireles Lucas
Maxi
Kuyt Suarez

Give Suarez, Maxi and Kuyt the freedom to go interchange and go wide, where they need to.

I'd be happy with that set up or there and there abouts.

[SB]

Reina
Flanno Carra Sktrel Johnson
Spearing Meireles Lucas
Maxi
Kuyt Suarez

I'd be happy with that set up or there and there abouts.

[RedSince1964]

I'd be happy with that set up or there and there abouts.

Me too

[Mostar]

Picks for Melwood training session..Some are absolutely hilarious

[Craig_H]

Pepe trying to put a sleeper hold on Raul while Lucas hypnotises him?

[Mostar]

Jay and Skrtel photo is my favorite

[banditos]

Jay and Skrtel photo is my favorite

I wonder if Skittles calls him mini me?

[Fernandinho]

I was gonnas say that Jay looks like Skrtels kid.

[anfieldanfield]

Jay Spearing is a ridiculous looking human being.

[Mostar]

http://www.liverpoolfc.tv/news/latest-news/reina-set-for-reds-milestone

Reina set for Reds milestone

Pepe Reina could play his 150th consecutive Barclays Premier League game for Liverpool at Fulham on Monday night - here are all the rest of the big-match stats.

Should he achieve the feat, it will be seventh longest sequence by any player in Reds history.

The last match Reina missed was the club's final Premier League game before the 2007 Champions League final at home to Charlton.

Head to Head (league only):
At Fulham: Liverpool 9 wins, Fulham 8 wins, 6 Draws.
Overall: Liverpool 26 wins, Fulham 8 wins, 13 Draws.

Liverpool aim for a league double over Fulham this season following a 1-0 win over the Cottagers at Anfield back in January. John Pantsil scored a 52nd minute own goal to give the Reds a first home win since Kenny Dalglish returned to the managerial hot-seat.

Last season Liverpool lost 3-1 at Craven Cottage with Bobby Zamora, Erik Nevland and Clint Dempsey scoring the goals. Fernando Torres had equalised for the Reds. For only the fifth time in their history Liverpool had two players sent off in a game - Jamie Carragher and Philipp Degen within three minutes close to the end.

Overall in the Premier League Liverpool have won five and lost four at Fulham, while home and away have won 11 and drawn four of the 19 meetings.
Liverpool's biggest win over Fulham in the League came in November 1955 when they won 7-0 at Anfield.

Their best win on this ground came in October 2004 when they won 4-2 after being two goals adrift at half-time.

There has not been a draw between the teams at Fulham in the Premier League.

The 3-1 defeat at Fulham last season equalled Liverpool's heaviest ever loss at Craven Cottage - they lost by the same score in April 1956.

Billy Liddell, with the help of two penalties, is the scorer of Liverpool's only hat-trick in meetings between the sides doing so in September 1954 at Anfield.

Jamie Carragher will be in line to play his 666th game for Liverpool - moving into outright second place in the club's all-time appearance list.

Dirk Kuyt has now scored eight penalties out of eight for Liverpool as well as a successful spot-kick in a Champions League Semi-Final shoot-out against Chelsea.

A goal from the Dutchman will give him 13 for the season in the league - his best ever return for the Reds, while he has 14 in all competitions - one fewer than his best ever goals tally in an English season. He is also two short of scoring 50 in the league for the Reds.

Should Kuyt score he will become the first Liverpool player since John Aldridge in March 1989 to score in five successive league games in the same season.

Going into this weekend's games no Premier League player has achieved that feat though Peter Odemwingie had also netted in 4 in a row prior to West Brom's game with Wolves.

Sotirios Kyrgiakos could play his 50th game for Liverpool in all competitions if selected.

Steven Gerrard will be missing for the seventh successive league game. The Reds have won four and drawn one of the six games. He has made 21 league appearances this season, the fewest since he became a regular in the team in 1999-2000.

If Liverpool win all their remaining three games they will reach a total of 64 points - one more than last season.

A Reds' victory will equal last season's total of five league wins away from home.

Liverpool have scored in each of the last 15 league games home and away.

On the road the Reds have won one of the last six games in league and cup.

They have not conceded a goal from open play in the last four games - the only one scored in that time coming from a Robin van Persie penalty at the Emirates.

The only Fulham player to score a hat-trick against Liverpool is Roy Dwight who did so in 1956.

The three goals Fulham scored in this fixture last season are the only goals scored by them in the last seven meetings home and away.

They have netted only four goals in the last nine clashes with Liverpool.

The Cottagers are looking to record back-to-back home league wins over Liverpool for only the second time ever.

Fulham are unbeaten in the last seven home league games with six wins and a draw. They last lost at home on Boxing Day when they went down 3-1 to West Ham.

Only Blackburn of the last seven visiting teams to Craven Cottage have scored (they lost 3-2).

Fulham have scored three times in each of the last three home league games - beating Bolton, Blackpool and Blackburn.

The only teams to leave Craven Cottage with all three points are Tottenham, Manchester City and West Ham, while Manchester United and Chelsea have both only managed draws.

They are unbeaten in the last three games since losing at Old Trafford and have lost only two of the last 11 Premier League fixtures.

They are looking to record a third successive league win for the first time since May 2008 when those victories kept them up (winning at Portsmouth on the final day of the campaign).

If they win this game it will be first time since February 2006 they have won four in a row at home in the Premier League.

Clint Dempsey has now scored a record 33 Premier League goals for Fulham. His first goal came against the Reds in May 2007 after coming on as a substitute.

Illness ruled Brede Hangeland out of last weekend's 3-0 win at Sunderland - the first league game he has missed this season.

His replacement Philippe Senderos was making his Fulham debut following his summer signing from Arsenal. He had missed virtually the whole of the campaign with an Achilles injury.

Fulham are the only team in the top-flight not to have had a player red carded this season.

Fulham have won eight of the 47 League games between the two sides.

Mark Hughes is Fulham's 25th post-war manager and their sixth since 2000.

Leading scorers (league in brackets):

Liverpool: Kuyt 14 (12), Torres 9 (9), Gerrard 8 (4), Ngog 8 (2), Maxi 7 (7), Meireles 5 (5), Cole 3 (2), Suarez 3 (3), Babel 2 (1), Carroll 2 (2), Johnson 2 (2), Jovanovic 2 (0), Kyrgiakos 2 (2), Skrtel 2 (2), Lucas 1 (0), own goals 2 (1).

Fulham: Dempsey 13 (12), Zamora 6 (4), Hangeland 5 (4), Kamara 5 (2), Davies 4 (4), Dembele 4 (2), Duff 4 (4), Gera 4 (1), Etuhu 3 (2), A. Johnson 3 (3), Baird 2 (2), Murphy 2 (0), Greening 1 (0), Hughes 1 (1), Kakuta 1 (1), own goals 1 (1).

[Mostar]

Kenny's press conference.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-Zkllwfgwc&feature=player_embedded"]YouTube - Dalglish on Europe and Andy Carroll's U21 call up[/ame]

[Mostar]

http://www.football365.co.za/story/0,22162,8698_6921217,00.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

HUGHES IMPRESSED BY REDS DUO

Fulham manager Mark Hughes believes Liverpool pulled off of a coup by replacing Fernando Torres with Andy Carroll and Luis Suarez.

Torres left Anfield for Chelsea in January for a British transfer record fee of £50 million and boss Kenny Dalglish acted swiftly to bring in reinforcements.

Uruguay international Suarez was drafted in from Ajax for £23 million, before Dalglish completed the signing of 22-year-old Newcastle striker Carroll on transfer deadline day.

The inflated £35 million-plus price tag raised more than a few eyebrows but Hughes believes Liverpool have done some shrewd business.

"I think the view is that they've done good business in terms of the two players they've got in with the money they've got for Torres," he said.

"Given the way it's panned out for Fernando Torres, you'd argue at this moment in time it's the better deal, only because the two guys that have gone in at Liverpool seem to have very quickly struck up a partnership and that seems to be working well for Liverpool.

"Right through the history of football, there's great partnerships and there's always examples of where one player triggers off the good, positive parts of another player.

"And there's signs that there's the possibility Carroll and Suarez will obviously continue in the same vein and be a very strong partnership for Liverpool for years to come."

Carroll and Suarez have looked like they could become a lethal partnership for the Reds, who have enjoyed a resurgence since Dalglish returned.

Liverpool were playing poorly and languished 12th in the Barclays Premier League when their former boss returned yet now they sit in sixth place and could still qualify for Europe.

Hughes was quick to praise the work Dalglish has done in his second spell at the helm but is hoping Fulham can pick up a result when the pair do battle on Monday night.

"Liverpool are playing exceptionally well," he said.

"From the outside looking in, I think it seems that they're a group that are playing with a smile on their faces, they seem to be enjoying their work - for whatever reason.

"It's probably the personality of the manager, I would suggest, because he always played with a smile on his face.

"At times, he'd moan and groan as a player. But, certainly, when you see him with a big smile, that filters through to the group he's working with, I'm sure.

"They seem to be enjoying what is presented in front of them and they're responding to Kenny at the moment and getting good results as a consequence.

"It'll be a difficult challenge for us but, from our point of view, we could say exactly the same.

"We're playing well, we're playing with confidence, so it's going to be a good match-up.

"We went to Anfield early in Kenny's tenure and played exceptionally well.

"We were beaten on the day but we were extremely disappointed that we didn't get anything out of that game.

"If we play as well as we did on that day then we'll go close.

"But we would argue that we have the potential to play even better, given that we're the home side this time."

[Norbs]

"because the two guys that have gone in at Liverpool seem to have very quickly struck up a partnership"

Really?

Suarez has provided instant support for the team in terms of creativity but to suggest he's formed a partnership with Andy is way off the mark. Suarez and Kuyt, yes. Suarez and Carroll haven't had enough match time together to call theirs a partnership yet.

[Craig_H]

Yeah, they've gone into business together and set up a burger van outside Anfield.

[Molby]

A little bit off topic here, but i've just spied this on RAWK.

Specifically the Art Vandelay Photoshop thread, posted by a very talented man - Armand9.

http://imageshack.us/clip/my-videos/109/y0o.mp4/
It's really amazing, if this doesn't get the hair standing on the back of your neck in anticipation for next season, then nothing will