Spartak Moscow away in the CL

[SB]

Tuesday night your time. 445am QLD time

An away win here would be gold for us. I think we'll go with a strong X1 as it'd be nice to have early qualification sorted out.

Can't actually remember who's in & who's not in our CL squad so forgive me if I'm wrong.

Karius
TAA
Matip
Lovren
Moreno
Can
Gini
Coutinho
Mane
Sturidge
Salah

Subs
Ward
Klavan
Gomez
Milner
Grujic
Solanke
Firmino

[Scratch]

So, I reckon the line-up will be;

Karius

TAA
Matip
Lovren
Robertson

Henderson
Can
Coutinho

Mane
Firmino
Salah

A team that has will score for fun, but may be prone to conceding comical howler.

[SB]

After seeing Hendo play the full match midweek I thought he'd have been rested for the weekends match but no he's played full games in both so I expect him to be rested for this.

[Liverpool]

Didn't play the weekend before though.

Think I'd give Salah a rest with Mane coming back in, keep Coutinho in front 3 with Bobby, with Sturridge/Salah to come on

bring in AOC or Milner for Gini.

TAA and Robertson at fullback.

[SB]

Didn't play the weekend before though.

Think I'd give Salah a rest with Mane coming back in, keep Coutinho in front 3 with Bobby, with Sturridge/Salah to come on

bring in AOC or Milner for Gini.

TAA and Robertson at fullback.

Mo is our most prolific scorer right now so I'd be against benching him from the start. Get him off after 60 mins or so when it's wrapped up hopefully. Likewise Millie & the Ox off the bench

[The_weatherman]

Do Spartak have any fashionable players?

[Irishnev]

Do Spartak have any fashionable players?

Quincy Promes

[Angryred]

Do Spartak have any fashionable players?

Quincy as mentioned above,
Their captain, Glushanov, is a very decent midfielder so one to watch out for & they have recruited a decent Brazillian forward from Sampdoria called Fernando.

Other than that, the rest are...meh?

[Doc_Piptorious]

Quincy Promes

Yeah he was linked with us at one point

[danperkins]

Really and truly we should be turning these over, they are bang average. Promes is their main man and Adriano was decent a few years ago but I'll be pretty surprised if we don't beat these. In saying that **** knows what Liverpool side will turn up. Mane should be chomping at the bit and Phil getting sharper with every game I can't see us not scoring, the problem is scoring more than them.

[baitman]

Do Spartak have any fashionable players?

slick.

[Doc_Piptorious]

Think Promes may be out though

[danperkins]

That would be lovely

[Doc_Piptorious]

Just read that he has a calf injury and missed their game at the weekend because of it, and is a doubt for tomorrow night.


Same article says the Brazilian forward they bought last month also missed their weekend game as he is injured as well.


By all accounts they are meant to have a weak enough team in terms of quality save for the likes of Promes and one or two others. So if Promes is out or not at 100%, it bodes well for us to get a good away win against them.

[Pablo]

We need to build some momentum and confidence now after the Leicester win.

A good away win here and I can see us hammering Newcastle.