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Nearly - EMC starts

I remember a cartoon in one of the fanzines from the time where a Liverpool player is fouled in defence and the ref awards a pen - at the other end of the pitch :)

I'm reasonably confident that Haji will start and EMC will rest. I sort of feel that Lati will keep his place so 2 changes from Leicester...

English beer is a lot stronger than most of the rubbish you get in US bars. Pints are 25% bigger too!

Yes, good bit of business. All helps the cash flow

He has a new born at home. He won't have had a lot of sleep in the past few weeks, that's hard going.

His best game since coming back. He'll be fine now

If there's another incoming, as Lampard seem to say on Friday, my first choice would be a solid, starting left back.

Regardless of what they might still owe us we have already committed the money elsewhere - it's spent, gone, non-existent... We rebuilt the squad with the winnings.

We all know he's lacking coinfidence. Some our fans don't help expecting two or three goals per game for a couple of sniffs! When the team isn't doing well the strikers just can't make up for it every time.

He's another one playing nearly every minute of every game.

I think it will. My theory is they've been overtraining to get an advantage in the early season and they're all fatigued. Obviously the flu issue and the thin squad hasn't helped but the staff behind the scenes need to find the right balance and that means more rotation in all positions. KKH...

Oggy was talking yesterday about the through ball from midfield that splits the defence being lacking from our game. That's what Torpy can do and very much what Haji wants playing off the shoulder. That needs vision but if also needs some speed in the build up play that I've not seen much of for...

In that case you would see all the best strikers with many more goals that xG and that's not the case. It only tends to happen over a small number of games and averages out.

The best strikers will average around 1 in 3 games perhaps a little more. Dalglish had a 0.4 ratio for example. They all have slumps in confidence and periods where the team isn't playing well around them that balance the odd hat trick and the more lucky spells. xG, I guess, averages all of that...

The xG table is interesting Haji's xG is 10.1 he has 8 Armstrong 13.8 and he has 11 Haji isn't out of step with the other top players at all and it does tend to support the argument that we are not creating very much (which is actually pretty obvious really.) Clearly he should have had two or...

The PL? We've almost forgotten what our playing style is at the moment, certainly style is the wrong word!

I think teams have learnt to attack our ropey defence recently. They were getting a bit of free ride earlier in the season

I know but we don't have the depth at the moment. Players get injured when they're fatigued too.

Play the kids at Stoke and regroup. Simples ;)