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Boro v Liverpool Match Thread Sat 15:00

MementoMori

Off to the unhappy hunting grounds that is the Riverside go Liverpool, hoping to build on the massive momentum from Wednesday night and just possibly making Fergie's bum that bit squeakier for the next while anyway.

So the boy Torres is doubtful but the good news is that Gerrard looks set to start.

Just to remind people how shockingly bad our record on Teeside is we have a miserable record there since the Premiership with Middlesbro 5 wins, Liverpool 3, Draws 5 and have scored just one league goal in their last six league visits to Teesside with the goalscorer being Fernando Torres goal last year. :eek::(

As against that Boro have been very poor this season and are right down there in the relegation zone battling for survival. They've drawn six and lost eight of 14 Premier League matches (six points out of 42) since defeating Aston Villa 1-2 at Villa Park on 9 November and not scored in four games, or 495 minutes (eight hours 15 minutes) of Premier League football. However you have to wonder if their two nil win over West Ham on Wednesday might get things going for them.

I'm expecting a line-up something like the following and would expect a 4-2-3-1 formation but could see Benayoun, Kuyt and Babel shifting around and maybe even Kuyt and Babel starting up front

Reina
Arbeloa Carra Skrtel Aurelio
Masch Alonso
Benayoun Gerrard Babel
Kuyt

Subs : Cavailieri, Hyypia, Agger, Insua, Lucas, N'gog, Riera, El Zhar

I don't know if Agger's back is ok but I would expect so.
I have Insua in there ahead of Dossena (more in hope than anything)

As for the Boro lineup I don't know enough to make that educated of a guess but I wouldn't be surprised if they try to keep midfield as congested as possible.

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Lovely

Come on the boro!

:mad:

Brilliant.

Typical.

shotamoose wrote: »

Did anyone else hear the Setanta commentator just say something like "All the Liverpool people we spoke to are even more insistent that Rafa will be leaving at the end of the season", or did I imagine it?

Heard to too - Sellotanta aint exactly known for their breaking of stories though

Nice move there - nice header by Babel

Skrtel did better there defensively

Gerrard doesnt really look 100% in spite of his chances

MementoMori

Downing v Skrtel is the only worry

Babel doing well - looks up for it

Kuyt keeps dropping too deep

darkskol

got off the hook there with a poor cross from downing

shotamoose

Did anyone else hear the Setanta commentator just say something like "All the Liverpool people we spoke to are even more insistent that Rafa will be leaving at the end of the season", or did I imagine it?

MementoMori

Get the feeling that if Lvierpool got one, there could be the possibilty of the floodgates opening

MementoMori

Deceent effort by Babel there

Liverpool well on top now

Skittles not afraid to get forward from RB

Raskolnikov

All Liverpool, not creating a lot though.

coco06

at least we are starting to create chances.. need to take one though

MementoMori

Kuyt should have doen better - Great ball by Aurelio

darkskol

close from kuyt there...corner

coco06

great cross there, kuyt needs to be a bit more compossed

Xavi6

MementoMori wrote: »

Boro clearly not parking the bus

Why would they park the bus at home?

MementoMori

Skrtel should have been tighter there - not enough pressure on the cross.
Worried Downing may have the upper hand there

Boro clearly not parking the bus