I share the opinion that Suarez operates better as a lone striker. He likes it when the defender is close up against him so he can quickly turn away from him and burst away. For that, he needs space. Having someone with very little mobility like Carroll next to him, you get the feeling that a strike partner will only get in his way. I'd like to see Suarez lead the line with a 2nd wave of support from the likes of Kuyt, Downing, etc. Suarez can get behind defenders with his pace, guile and quick turns but he needs support to play ball back across goal to.

Dont want lone striker bro.Leads to over reliance on him.We need two to help share the burden.Unless you have a world class midfield and wing like spain then you can play lone striker.Ours currently is nowhere near there.If you see the man city match last season suarez and carroll linked up well and that was our best attacking performance.

To justify why i think we cant play lone formation is we dont have possession 60% or more.Spain,barca are like this and most of the time they are in opponents half
so the striker doesnt get isolated.We on many occasions have to counter attack so once the striker needs someone close.After alonso left torres was very isolated as lucas and mascherano cant feed the ball.I doubt there are many teams that win trophies primarily with lone striker formation apart from barca,spain of course.Please correct me if i am wrong.Even our successful sides were built on keegan toshack,rush dalglish partnerships.

That's because KD prefers Downing and Henderson on both flanks. You don't spend 15+ million just to put them on the bench, we're no Man City.

KD put a lot of faith on his new signings, by starting them every league match. Enrique is the most consistent IMO, the others are inconsistent while Henderson is really below-par. They better start delivering to repay the amount of trust KD puts in them. While our No.9 is really

Think the days of 2 strikers are numbered. Nowadays teams played with lone striker supported by AM/wings/auxiliary forwards etc. Fluidity is the word of the day now where most of the forward line can interchange position. Some can even play without out & out strikers with success. Eg include the manc, rent boys, inter/ac, even RM & Bayern.

The problem is the current team is not fluid at all, not when your most creative player is Adam who lack mobility. When the engine room consist of Adam/Lucas, both tend to play from deep without much pace, you'll need more pacy wide players to stretch play. Unfortunately we only have Downing to a lesser extend Bellamy or Suarez. I'd like to see how KD fit in Stevie when he's back.

Currently, the team is limited when Carroll is playing due to his inability to play at quicker pace or interchange position. I'd like to see a MF of Adam-Lucas-Gerrard supporting a frontline of Downing/Bellamy-Suarez-Kuyt. The team can morph into 4-3-3 or even 4-1-2-3 when attacking & revert to 4-5-1 when defending. Not to mentioned most of them can interchange position at will.

Theoretically its exciting but whether it can be moulded into the team play remain to be seen. Oh well, one can only dream

United play with rooney partnering with either welbeck,berbatov or hernandez.Chelsea play with two or three with anelka,torres,sturridge,kalou and drogba.
They do have a target man but that target man is not the lone striker.Carroll is our target man.

Normally Rooney played as free role. Couple of years back they played without a recognize striker with much success
As for the blues, everyone knew they play with 1 out & out striker with wide/wingers support (the wingers role can be played by Anelka/Kalou/Sturridge). Did you see how they fail to pair up Torres/Drogba or Torres/Anelka?
Some team list down 3 strikers but not all of them play the striker role just like Kuyt.

skrtel and adams will face one match banned right? does it include the carling cup?

Who doesn't..it would be an intriguing Cup match, to witness. If i were Kenny (if), i'll ignore to hit the panic button after a devastating week , as rushing Steven Gerrard back into the lineup could make a bad situation worse. Gerrard is far too valuable to the team to gamble on. Kenny Dalglish won't fall victim to a foolish knee-jerk reaction. Gerrard isn't in a position to come in and save the day. He's still recovering from his groin operation that developed into an infection. It's natural to look to Gerrard after a loss like this, especially after losing Daniel Agger to a rib fracture.

We have been waiting patiently for Gerrard's highly anticipated return. Give it a while..he'll be back stronger than before..

yes , they are not available on tomoro morning match.

This is what i'm afraid of.
Some of us put really high hopes on Gerrard to change/boost the team when he return.
Imagine if he fail?I'm not jinxing the team(god's forbid) but then don't put high hopes on him.

After watching a few matches this season, and also watched a few MU match, actually our players are comparable to those in MU, but one thing MU have, but unable to find on ours, "formation" and "understanding". I really hope Liverpool can show us what they are capable of, unlike those Stoke City and Tottenham performance.

sit too much hope in SG return will do no good. In fact, every player in the squad should buck, improve and learn from their mistake.

If you cant face your defeat, then you wont be able to celebrate your victory.

so they will available for wolves match?

They will be available for Wolves game. The suspension counts the domestic cups as well. Read this

The Reds team in full is: Reina, Kelly, Robinson, Carragher, Coates, Lucas, Spearing, Maxi, Kuyt, Bellamy, Suarez. Subs: Gerrard, Carroll, Downing, Wilson, Shelvey, Flanagan, Doni.

lol... even carling cup doni oso not starting... im expecting a fast pace attacking display, maxi kuyt suarez and bellamy... wow...

Not surprising that Kenny opted to rest Suarez. Hmm, good for him to get some rest and get us 3 points this coming weekend.Let's hope he start scoring soon

hmm... suarez in the starting lineup, no?

any streamlinks please?

try this..
http://www.firstrowsports.tv/webmaster/Liv...verpool-fc.html