Stoke vs Liverpool

Rory Fitzgerald · December 22, 2012

Rory Delap may be a thing of the past but this is gonna be a really tough test for us.

Stoke haven't lost at home and their record this season at the Brittania is impressive;

Played 8, won 4, drew 4, lost 0 with only 3 goals and 1 of those was an o.g. they scored for Everton. The only 2 opposition players to score there are Javi Garcia for City and Cisse for Newcastle. In fact, they haven't lost there for 15 games (February) - W8, D7, L0.

Our away record is P8, W2, D4, L2 - F 13, A 13.

That said, the bookies pitch us as favourites at 13/10 and Stoke are 19/10.

The match at Anfield this season was 0-0 with Stoke sharing out the fouls around the team with a few of theirs booked. It seemed like we had a free kick every 5 mins.

Pulis seems to play Jones ahead of Crouch these past few games. Whilst it can be a 4-4-2 with Walters joining Jones, he can drop Walters back to RM and let Charlie Adam play off the main striker (be it Jones or Crouch). Adam is likely to come back in to the side after he was allowed miss the Spurs game for his fathers funeral.

Begovic

Cameron Huth Shawcross Shotton

Walters Nzonzi Whelan Etherington

Adam

Jones

Other players that could come in are Palacios, Whitehead or Crouch.

I can see us going 3-5-3 for this game;

Reina

Johnson Skrtel Coates Agger Enrique

Gerrard Lucas Shelvey

Suarez Sterling

The only thing that doesnt sit easy with me is that this is the midfield that started against Fulham.

Edited December 22, 2012 by Rory Fitzgerald

Dan · December 22, 2012

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