Wouldn't dare post a premier league game , so thought you wouldn't mind Interesting what side Rafa will put out with City 3 days later ..... these are a decent side dropped out of the champions league . 1 Diego Cavalieri 2 Glen Johnson 4 Alberto Aquilani 5 Daniel Agger 8 Steven Gerrard 9 Fernando Torres 11 Albert Riera 12 Fabio Aurelio 15 Yossi Benayoun 16 Sotirios Kyrgiakos 18 Dirk Kuyt 19 Ryan Babel 20 Javier Mascherano 21 Lucas 22 Emiliano Insua 23 Jamie Carragher 24 David Ngog 25 Pepe Reina 26 Jay Spearing 27 Philipp Degen 28 Damien Plessis 31 Nabil El Zhar 32 Stephen Darby 34 Martin Kelly 36 Steven Irwin 37 Martin Skrtel 38 Robbie Threlfall 39 Nathan Eccleston 40 Daniel Ayala 41 Martin Hansen 44 David Martin 45 Alex Kacaniklic 46 David Amoo 47 Daniel Pacheco 48 Gerardo Bruna Cavalieri Kelly Kyrgiakos Skrtel Aurelio Masch Aquilani Degen Pacheco Reira Babel No chance , Think Rafa will go a lot stronger and he should
strongest available team must be played, a trophy is a trophy and these are not a team of mugs, gerrard with lucas or masch in the centre, with Aqualani off Babel or Ngog, would want to have a 2 goal lead before we head off on the away leg aka Seans stags, oh yeah!
Game on 3e http://liveonsat.com/LJ_Sport_foot_uefa_europa_cup.php why are the bitters playing on Tuesday ?
For money I think (most likey Portugese TV). Some respect they show for their fans with a ridiculas kick off time. As soon as Trevor Welch opens his fat mouth on Thursday its gonna hit home that we are out of the CL and I will cry. I'd go with 8 or 9 regulars and 2 or 3 fringe players. Sunday is way more important than this.
Because I doubt Merseyside police would be all that happy about us and them playing at home on the same night. Based on Rafa's approach to this competition with Valencia in 2004 he will play as much a 2nd team as possible. Did this up until the quarter-finals with them back then until they lost away to a Turkish team and he changed his tune after that. With Man City game on 3 days after lets just say I'm not expecting our first eleven by any stretch. An earlier than usual 4:20pm flight to JL and a later start of 8:05pm means getting more gargle in beforehand as well
Doh .... priority with co efficients should have = Tuesday for us , suppose we should have had a FA CUP game on Saturday but still think Tuesday would have better even if we would have been playing Saturday?
not to bad imo .... or to be taken lightly ... Sevilla FC 2 - 0 Unirea Urziceni UEFA Champions League Unirea Urziceni 1 - 1 VfB Stuttgart UEFA Champions League Rangers 1 - 4 Unirea Urziceni UEFA Champions League Unirea Urziceni 1 - 1 Rangers UEFA Champions League Unirea Urziceni 1 - 0 Sevilla FC UEFA Champions League Stuttgart 3 - 1 Unirea Urziceni UEFA Champions League Pld W D L GS GA GD P Sevilla 6 4 1 1 11 4 +7 13 Stuttgart 6 2 3 1 9 7 +2 9 Unirea Urziceni 6 2 2 2 8 8 0 8 Rangers 6 0 2 4 4 13 −8 2 Unlucky not to be in KO stages of the champions league ..... the draw v Stuttgart at home cost them ... even more so the Rangers game at home after beating Rangers 4-1 away
Would rather go all out for 4th place and forget about this trophy. Not worth the risk of missing out on fourth because of it. Last year Villa put out a reserve side to concentrate on going for 4th and no english channel screened the 2nd leg live. Channel 5 said the early kick off (5.30pm) would disrupt neighbours and home and away. What happens if we pick up injuries in this competition and 4th place is ultimately lost because of it? Not worth it imo for such a meaningless trophy.