Newcastle v Liverpool Build Up: 1st Nov 12.45pm

[cream]

Newcastle finding a bit of form. We should beat em.

[danperkins]

Newcastle have 3 Wins & 2 draws in last 5 games..3 wins on the bounce.

[captainfog]

They're buzzing at the minute, but at the same time can you really see Newcastle winning 3 games on the trot?!

Surely we'll win this one. It's certainly vitally important that we do.

[Myo]

Couts, Lucas & Borini are defo starters for me...they are on form...

[DannyMan2006]

At home I'd want two up top, but as we're away I'd rather we started with just one. It's the mistake we made against West Ham. Should have started more solid.

I'd look at 4231/433. Coutinho at the tip with Raheem & Borini wide and Mario up top. Gerrard and one other in the middle. Raheem & Fabio offer movement and can also stick to their defensive duty when needed. Moreno and Manquillo at full back. Glen has been out injured and is slowly coming back. He played midweek so I'd rest him for this and play him away to Real.

We've looked solid lately and I wouldn't want to move too far away from that. I think it's vital we keep clean sheets atm as we haven't looked very fluent up top. I think we will beat Newcastle but we don't need to commit ourselves and go all guns blazing. We're the away side and the Newcastle fans won't set for them playing deep with two banks of 4/5 so let's keep it tight and make the fans get restless like opposing sides do at Anfield.

[Bender]

Newcastle finding a bit of form. We should beat em.

That makes no sense at all.....we should also of beaten Hull,

[Lee]

Yup two up top for me and it would be Borini for his work rate and Balotelli.

Worryingly we looked better at the back last night in terms of organisation with Jones in goal now whilst he's not as good a keeper as Mignolet he did seem to marshal the back 4 pretty well I'd also say having Kolo in there helped things as it was less frantic with both Lovren and Skrtel doing their thing!

I think it's a given Gerrard will start unless he has a knock so I'd go with something like this.

.....................................Mignolet..... .......................................

..Manquillo..............Toure.............Lovren. ..............Moreno..........

....................................Gerrard....... .....................................

,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Henderson...................Coutin ho...............................

.................................Sterling......... .......................................

.......................Mario...............Borini. ....................................


Allow Sterling, Coutinho and Borini freedom to move around and try and keep Balotelli up top.

Agree with this.

[inijjer]

I'm really enjoying the quick turnaround of games. Even if some of the results haven't been great.

[captainfog]

Can't understand people picking Lucas.

[BigChief]

Can't understand people picking Lucas.

They're judging him on his games for us so far this season. Without prejudice.

[Chazza]

Can't understand people picking Lucas.

Aye he is out of the team for a reason and one game in the Capital one cup where he was ok is no reason for him to play.

That and people are desperate for Gerrard to get dropped.

[frank the tank]

They're judging him on his games for us so far this season. Without prejudice.

[frank the tank]

At home I'd want two up top, but as we're away I'd rather we started with just one. It's the mistake we made against West Ham. Should have started more solid.

I'd look at 4231/433. Coutinho at the tip with Raheem & Borini wide and Mario up top. Gerrard and one other in the middle. Raheem & Fabio offer movement and can also stick to their defensive duty when needed. Moreno and Manquillo at full back. Glen has been out injured and is slowly coming back. He played midweek so I'd rest him for this and play him away to Real.

We've looked solid lately and I wouldn't want to move too far away from that. I think it's vital we keep clean sheets atm as we haven't looked very fluent up top. I think we will beat Newcastle but we don't need to commit ourselves and go all guns blazing. We're the away side and the Newcastle fans won't set for them playing deep with two banks of 4/5 so let's keep it tight and make the fans get restless like opposing sides do at Anfield.

i really get what you are saying but i think because Newcastle will play with an attacking mentality at home is one of the main reasons that we should play the diamond (the other being that it seems to be our best formation). Because Newcastle will play an attacking line-up, we should set up to really hurt them on the counter attack - just as we did away to Spurs earlier in the season. If we can have Sterling, Coutinho, Borini, Henderson and Balotelli all breaking at pace, then we should see some joy.

I think the tactics you detail are spot on for away to Man City, Arsenal or Chelsea - where we would be very happy with a point - but not against Newcastle. We need to force the game - especially in the first half.

[dizzycat]

This is just the type of game we need. They've hit some form and will be playing in front of a crowd that will (unusually) be fully behind them. We'll have to play decently to get a result and it could be just the springboard that we need to push on and actually achieve something this season.

.....................................Mignolet..... .......................................

..Manquillo..............Skittles.............Lovr en. ..............Moreno..........

....................................Henderson..... ........Allen....... ..................................

,,,,,,,,,Sterling................................. ...........Coutinho..............................

.......................Mario...............Borini. ....................................

Borini and Stirling can interchange depending on how much we need to press in the center of the park

[Lecter]

I just think we've always played best with two strikers as Coutinho or Sterling can play the number 10 role really well and full backs like to get forward.

This has been a big problem for me all season and imo the change in system has been as much to blame for our poor form as any other the other numerous problems we have