Stoke City v Liverpool SKY Sport 7.45

mike65

After last weeks acclaimed thread which inspired Stuart Downing to scale new
heights for Liverpool I thought I better start this!

The question is can Stu do it on a wet Wednesday night at the Britannia? :pac: Can Liverpool for that matter, its usually been a dismal date for the away side having won once since Pulis side was promoted (Suarez double Oct 2011), they are on a 15 match unbeaten run at home averaging 1.0 goal per game while Liverpool are impossible to second guess home or away but average 1.6 goals away. Stoke are ancient with a squad average age of 28.6 so hopefully the limbs will start to creak in the chilly damp late on!

Stoke are missing Delap and Wilson, for Liverpool Kelly, Assaidi and Borini are absent. Howard Webb is in the middle.

JJJJNR

I predict M.Owen hat trick !

yermandan

It'll be a good game, Pool to nick it

The_Kew_Tour

Stoke for me.

livinginkorea

Pretty late game so hope the effects of the Turkey and pudding will have worn off.

3-1 to the pool. Downing to continue his run of form, Suarez to score, with Johno and Enrique to tear the sides up.

I am pie

Scoreless draw, Stoke are impenetrable at home. Tough away for liverpool.

Gbear

It'd be nice if a ref actually refs stoke properly for once. They are the worst refereed team in the league. Constantly getting away with **** that nobody else does. I hate them.

The league would be better if they went out of business.

Turtyturd

Win for Stoke.

Also expect some retribution from Suarez on Huth for the stamp during the last meeting, so maybe a red for Suarez.

Gbear

Turtyturd wrote: »

Win for Stoke.

Also expect some retribution from Suarez on Huth for the stamp during the last meeting, so maybe a red for Suarez.

I doubt it to be honest. It wasn't much of a stamp. Rodgers will be telling Suarez to get any payback by making a fool of Huth rather than biting him or kicking him in the face.

Leiva

Quietly confident.

3 points to Liverpool.

Turtyturd

Gbear wrote: »

I doubt it to be honest. It wasn't much of a stamp. Rodgers will be telling Suarez to get any payback by making a fool of Huth rather than biting him or kicking him in the face.

I hope you're right.

Ganymede Glow

A hard fought 1-1 I reckon

Super-Rush

Score draw/possibly Liverpool to sneak it 1-0.

Going to be a boring game to watch.

mike65

Not as boring as Chrimbo telly.

Nuri Sahin

1-1 , Crouch and Suarez

5starpool

Can't see better than a draw unfortunately, and could be an uncomfortable defeat also.

Max Power

Stoke 1-1 Liverpool (Huth, Shelvey)

Johner

Fancy Liverpool to win this, Pool and Spurs double at around 3.5/1 will do me!

michael999999

Liverpool to go one down, but to win 2-1!

Anyone

I hate Stoke

Lawrence1895

Realistic view: Draw

Wishful thinking: Decent win for Pool

darced

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klose

Anyone wrote: »

I hate Stoke

Nobody likes stoke

ManOnFire

don't think Skrtel ever really deals well with Crouchy so going for a score draw, which wouldn't be a bad result really

Will I Amnt

10-0 Stoke with Suarez being sent off twice and Shelvey to announce his retirement to host a remake of The Crystal Maze and swan off in a leopard skin jacket.

Can't see us getting much here. Would take a draw now

opr

Guy from Radio Merseyside saying we will be unchanged. Surprised to see Suso starting against Stoke.

@Petermcdowall10: Hearing #LFC will be unchanged.

Opr

Francie Barrett

This is a must win for us, don't care how it happens, it's a tough fixture, just need the three points.

RasTa

Large bet on over 40 points(cards) need 5 yellows or 3 yellows and a red. Do your thing Stoke and Suarez.

Max Power

whippedcream wrote: »

Nobody likes stoke

I like Stoke

Vicxas

Realistic: Draw or narrow painful loss

Hope: Comfortable win.

michael999999

I have a tenner on a player almost being killed by a ball, small odds considering the abundance of these instances!

daithijjj

FionnMcCool87 wrote: »

I like Stoke

I like Stoke too.......

I also like self harming with old rusty razor blades and brussels sprout sandwiches.

Touch.....pause.......engage

Turtyturd

FionnMcCool87 wrote: »

I like Stoke

There's always one...I suppose at least you didn't say you hated them before it was cool.

barone

not optimistic although if pool play smart they will win

Darkglasses

FionnMcCool87 wrote: »

I like Stoke

Me too, second favourite team in the league

Rayne Wooney

I like Stoke as well, it's hard to watch but they put some effort in

CSF

Johner wrote: »

Fancy Liverpool to win this, Pool and Spurs double at around 3.5/1 will do me!

.......7/2 then?

googled eyes

Ive a feeling it'll be a score draw, prob 1-1 but I'm hoping that we beat Stoke. If the line up is true I'd love Suso and Suarez to score

MyBrokenKnees

I see Liverpool scoring 5 or 6 goals tonight getting the goal difference up and goals from S,S and S to show the incoming S how it's done

opr

Same starting team confirmed - Reina, Johnson, Enrique, Skrtel, Agger, Lucas, Gerrard, Shelvey, Suso, Downing, Suarez.

Joe Cole makes the bench over Sahin!

Srijandeep Das ‏@jeremy_LFC
Subs: Jones, Carragher, Coates, Henderson, Allen, Cole, Sterling.

Opr

Nuri Sahin

Allen is a rat. Shelvey is a lick arse.

Glad to see Allen out of the team again. Looked a better team without him.

However, I'd be shocked if Stoke give us as much time on the ball !!

Turtyturd

Uggghh....Shelvey.

klose

Cole on the bench ahead of sahin???

grohlisagod

I can see Liverpool having a lot of problems from set pieces tonight. Not sure how much of an impact Suso is likely to have in a game like this either.

whippedcream

whippedcream wrote: »

Cole on the bench ahead of sahin???

No point playing him when he's not being used in his correct position in fairness.

He'll be gone in Jan I reckon, Rodgers doesn't know how to use him

murpho999

rarnes1 wrote: »

No point playing him when he's not being used in his correct position in fairness.

He'll be gone in Jan I reckon, Rodgers doesn't know how to use him

Would that not be anything to do with being pretty poor in any appearances he has made so far?

murpho999

murpho999 wrote: »

Would that not be anything to do with being pretty poor in any appearances he has made so far?

Rodgers was playing him in an advanced role, a role alien to Sahin. He said it himself.

Kerrigooney

Adding my voice to the "I hate Stoke" brigade.

And Pewliss. Not normally a violent man but I'd pound that ****ers face to a pulp without thinking twice about it. And then shoot him. And then burn him. And then piss on his ashes.

That said I think they'll beat us 1-0 in what turns out to be the worst game in the history of football.

I'm really not looking forward to this game. I'll watch it tho.

I can't believe Shelvey is starting again. WTF?

Sahin must have taken a crayon to that picture of Rodgers hanging in his house or something.

MyBrokenKnees

I wouldn't play Joe Cole either in case his hamstring went again and he wouldn't be recovered till 12;01am on the first of Feb. and he missed the a transfer window move.