Brendan Rodgers

[Exiled_red]

I would go with:

--------Mignolet---------
Clyne Sktrel Sakho Gomez
---------Lucas----------
---Milner---Henderson---
Firmino-----------Lallana
--------Benteke--------

Essentially the same set up and tactics as Arsenal but with Sakho in for Lovren, Lallana in for Coutinho and Henderson in for Can.

This is exactly the type of game we need Lucas to play his normal DM role, Henderson and Milner in midfield to provide hard work energy and pressing. Firmino to hopefully provide some flair and Lallana because he's probably the best of the bunch for that role at the moment. Sakho in for Lovren because well anyone who saw the game yesterday knows why.

The key thing for me is to ensure we keep pressing them that is what worked so well against Arsenal and is what we need to do here aswell, for me we play our best when we press, it gives us a purpose when we don't press we look lost.

Actually scrap that I would replace Lallana with Ings, I thought he had a decent few minutes when he can on, worked hard and he would be another goal threat which is something this side doesn't have many of.

[RichC]

It's his fourth season.

Utterly irrelevant, they decided to keep him in the Summer they're not going to ditch him after 1 loss this season.

A disaster might see him removed early but any change due to poor results is most likely next Summer

[RichC]

Talk of him getting the boot after one loss is insanity.

[TheElephantMan]

That's why I said that I can't see him being here after Christmas.

[Vermilion]

It's his fourth season.

[G]

I think I've seen one person wonder about him getting sacked in the international break, hardly all the naysayers. Thats unrealistic and would be bloody silly after backing him I agree but him being here till the summer is too IMO if we dont keep in touch with the top 4 race over the coming months.

[RichC]

That's why I said that I can't see him being here after Christmas.

You were also 100% sure he was gone in the Summer.

Maybe you'll get it right we've been terrible and he gets the boot

[chadrtc]

It's his fourth season.

He's lost one game - talk of the owners sacking him or any other manager now is mental, even for this place.

They would have jettisoned him in the summer if that was on the agenda.

[captainfog]

If FSG really gave a **** then they'd have sacked him last season. Barring relegation form he'll probably see out the season.

[RichC]

I think I've seen one person wonder about him getting sacked in the international break, hardly all the naysayers. Thats unrealistic and would be bloody silly after backing him I agree but him being here till the summer is too IMO if we dont keep in touch with the top 4 race over the coming months.

I'd be surprised if he's not been given some pretty clear cut performance expectations from FSG, no idea what they'll be but you'd think they big one will be a top 4 finish.

Moyes if I remember correctly was removed when that was mathematically unobtainable, not out of the realms of possibility there'd be something similar.

I do find the talk of removal of our manager after one defeat in a season pretty distasteful though, has the feel of something more akin to the Chelsea or Evertons of this world.

[danperkins]

The match vs United will be won or lost in the midfield. United have been impressive with their midfield battling and pressing..we need to match that.

[TheElephantMan]

He should have gone during the summer, I'm hardly alone in thinking that. I don't want us to be terrible, I want us to compete at the top end of the table - I want us to win the league, but realistically I want us to be back in the CL. I want us to have the best chance of getting positive results, I want the team to develop and improve each season. In spite of buying some decent players in the summer we still have the same old problems.

[TheElephantMan]

He's lost one game - talk of the owners sacking him or any other manager now is mental, even for this place.

They would have jettisoned him in the summer if that was on the agenda.

Why does an alternative opinion from your own mean that someone must be mental?

[RichC]

He should have gone during the summer, I'm hardly alone in thinking that. I don't want us to be terrible, I want us to compete at the top end of the table - I want us to win the league, but realistically I want us to be back in the CL. I want us to have the best chance of getting positive results, I want the team to develop and improve each season. In spite of buying some decent players in the summer we still have the same old problems.

Bit in bold - perhaps but he didn't did he, he's still here and the manager of the club whether you like it not.

As has been said since he was given another season he'll either make his targets or he'll be pushed this season. We're 4 games in not playing that well but have 7 points, only one side is playing well so far this season.

If things don't improve then he'll be gone simple as that.

[Rich]

That Rodgers quote about "in-game static and moving positions" is really the hallmark of a total ****in bull****ter. This constant changing of systems is the sign of a man floundering. And as rightly pointed out, when we did well with three at the back last season and then lost one game, he threw it out the window. He has zero consistency in his approach. He won't last much longer with us and it'll be interesting to see what happens him next. I think his stock as a manger is plummeting. Football people will think he's a soundbite, cocky bull****ter.

Spot on.