The international break is over and it's time for real football again! For a change it wasn't too bad for us though. Quite a number of players had time to recover and are now ready to play against City. Looks like it's now "only" Torres who's still missing. Now all we need those players to do is put in one hell of a performance and beat the richest club in world football. Despite all the setbacks we had this season, it's still only the 13th game of the season and there are still more than 70 points to be won. I for one haven't completely written us off yet. I expect to see a similar performance to the one against Birmingham. We showed a lot of passion and desire and were really unlucky not to have won in the end. It's very important for the players to hold their heads up high and keep performing at that level.
Both teams have had a bit of a rough patch recently so I expect this to be a game where anything can happen. What's important is that we go out there wanting to win this bloody game!!
The Reds XI in full is: Reina, Skrtel, Carragher, Agger, Insua, Mascherano, Lucas, Kuyt, Gerrard, Babel, Ngog. Subs: Cavalieri, Aquilani, El Zhar, Aurelio, Riera, Benayoun, Kyrgiakos.
Line-up:
Reina
Carragher - Skrtel - Agger - Insua
Mascherano - Lucas
Kuyt - Gerrard - Babel
N'Gog
Fairly strong line-up. Don't like Carra at right back. With Kuyt in front of him the right side doesn't look very fruitful. Still hope that Kuyt will perform better than he has so far this season. Time for Babel to prove his worth (once again). Hope N'Gog keeps his perfomance up. Good to see Gerrard back in there as well as Riera and Yossi back on the bench.
Now come on lads, we really need those 3 points, so let's fucking do this!!