PREVIEW LIVERPOOL V BOLTON

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massive game tomorrow, well every game is from now on in . after a very poor performance on tuesday with no enterprise, liverpool need to show a lot more creativity against a bolton team that will be very resiliant, very difficult to break down and dangerous going forward. so i reckon it will be a similar obstacle to wolves to overcome except with a bit more danger going forward.

the home crowd will be a massive help to a team trying to find a run of form, but the shackles have to come off especially at home, understandably rafa has been extremely cautious in his selections in recent games considering how often we have been leaking goals this season. but i think we have a bit of stability in defence at last and not conceding much. but 2 holding midfielders is not needed especially at home. 

personally though i don't think rafa will be that ambitious and i reckon the team will be-

GOALKEEPER- REINA

RIGHT BACK-CARRAGHER

LEFT BACK-INSUA

CENTRE BACK-SKIRTEL

CENTRE BACK-KYRIAGOS

LEFT MIDFIELD-RIERA

CENTRE MIDFIELD-LUCAS

CENTRE MIDFIELD-MASCHERANO

RIGHT MIDFIELD-MAXI

CENTRE MIDFIELD(ATTACKING ROLE)-GERRARD

CENTRE-KUYT

SUBS-ANYBODYS GUESS 

i would have liked AQUALANI to start in place of LUCAS but its never going to happen, in fact AQUALANI is beginning to look like a real waste of money, not because he is rubbish but because RAFA never plays him. also I would rather have DEGEN playing instead of MAXI who i think will need time to settle in.

anyway onto tomorrow and i will predict -LIVERPOOL 2 BOLTON 0

look forward to your comments

WOLVES 0-0 LIVERPOOL

solely my view of the game not a match report just a view. i thought liverpool started well with riera flashing a header just wide, but then i felt the game got very scrappy with wolves closing liverpool down very quickly not allowing any space. all in all it was a game with very few chances, which was disappointing for a liverpool point of view playing against a team with the worst scoring record in the league.
i know we were away from home, but against a team struggling at the other end of the table i felt we could have been a bit more adventurous, but again the cautious approach is rafa's achilles in my opinion.
the team selection was more or less what i expected apart from gerrard and maxi playing, i would have left gerrard on the bench and played aqualani who had his best game yet against spurs, giving gerrard a bit more time to get over this latest injury, also i would have started degen rather than maxi just because i think it will take time for maxi to adjust to the english game and degen for me has played well in recent games with some very strong forward running with the ball.
again not much creativity, hence not many chances with gerrard being man marked, but positively the defence is looking stronger, not giving many goals away, so that is a plus, with once again skirtel and kyriagos playing well together with carragher looking good on the right, midfield, mascherano and lucas worked really hard but never created much, riera never got enough of the ball for me, maxi seemed well off the pace which can only be expected, gerrard didn't look 100% and wasn't given much space, and kuyt worked his socks off for the team once again.
so overall not a great result but there are also positives there which you always have to look for.
hopefully we can get 3 points at home to bolton on saturday.
look out for my preview in the next couple of days.
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