FA Cup - Liverpool vs Portsmouth

[ScouseCat]

How will we go in this game and who is likely to start at Anfield on Sunday??

[kopiteinkc]

Our starting 11 will probably stay the same

Portsmouth face a few injury problems, according to the Beeb:

>>>Portsmouth will be without injured trio Teddy Sheringham, Steve Stone and Patrik Berger while John Curtis and Lomano LuaLua are cup-tied.

New signing Ivica Mornar is set to stay in while Alexei Smertin can also return after not being allowed to face Chelsea and Nigel Quashie will be captain. <<<

[usscouse]

They did pretty good last time we played them. Let's see which Liverpool team comes out to play, this time!

[655321]

I also predict it'll be about the same team...there's a story on the official site with GH saying Baros isn't quite ready (about one game away, he predicts).

[liverbird]

Lineup:

------Dudek
Finnan --H---H----Carra
Diouf---Didi--SG---TLT
------Heskey--Owen

Bench:
Kirkland
Biscan
FSP
Harry
Spuds

I think Harry has to sit. Watched him for the last 180 minutes live and he's completely out of form. No touch, vision, effort, defense, or desire. Give him a rest and a wake up call. Diouf is back let him play. Cheyrou has done ok but let's play with two strikers for a change.

[Flying Weasel]

Welcome back, liverbird.

[liverbird]

Originally posted by Flying Weasel
Welcome back, liverbird.

Wish I could say I was glad to be back. With any foresight I could have come back on Monday and seen both the reserves game yesterday and the Pompey game this Sunday. Tickets were on sale still on Thursday. Also, with a Liverpool ticket I could have gotten seats for the Tranmere-Swansea game tomorrow. Oh well -- I'm home!

[usscouse]

Originally posted by liverbird
Wish I could say I was glad to be back. With any foresight I could have come back on Monday and seen both the reserves game yesterday and the Pompey game this Sunday. Tickets were on sale still on Thursday. Also, with a Liverpool ticket I could have gotten seats for the Tranmere-Swansea game tomorrow. Oh well -- I'm home! My heart goes out to you...:rolleyes:

Welcome back!

[RedKnight]

Originally posted by liverbird
Lineup:

------Dudek
Finnan --H---H----Carra
Diouf---Didi--SG---TLT
------Heskey--Owen

Bench:
Kirkland
Biscan
FSP
Harry
Spuds

I think Harry has to sit. Watched him for the last 180 minutes live and he's completely out of form. No touch, vision, effort, defense, or desire. Give him a rest and a wake up call. Diouf is back let him play. Cheyrou has done ok but let's play with two strikers for a change.

Welcome back, LB.

Interesting lineup, but it looks as if it won't happen:

Diouf will NOT play, according to Houllier:

Furious Houllier punishes Diouf and Diao

Gerard Houllier has insisted that Senegal pair Salif Diao and El-Hadji Diouf have 'no chance' of taking part in Sunday's FA Cup clash with Portsmouth after returning to Anfield late from international duty.

Houllier expected the Senegal internationals back from Tunisia on Monday but having gone out of the African Nations Cup on Saturday, the pair only arrived back on Wednesday.

"They should have been back on Monday - and I am not pleased," claimed Houllier.

http://www.liverpoolfc.tv/news/drilldown/N143811040214-0909.htm

And, Harry will play:

http://www.liverpoolfc.tv/news/drilldown/N143815040214-0954.htm

So Kewell and Cheyrou instead of Diouf and TLT would be my guess (with TLT to the bench.)

Edit: Just read that Kirkland may have suffered a back strain in the 12 February Reserves match--so I wouldn't be surprised to see Luzi as our backup GK tomorrow.

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[Suss]

How about this lineup:

------------Dudek---------
Finnan----Hyppia---Henchov--Carragher
-------------Hamann----------
Le Tallec/Cheyrou--Gerrard----Riise
------------Owen-------Kewell

Instead of dropping Kewell out of the squad, let him play up front to see if he can find his form. This could give Risse a chance to get back into the squad in the midfield.

[liverbird]

Originally posted by usscouse
My heart goes out to you...:rolleyes:

Welcome back! Ta, la!

[liverbird]

Originally posted by RedKnight
Welcome back, LB.

Interesting lineup, but it looks as if it won't happen:

And, Harry will play:

[url]http://www.liverpoolfc.tv/news/drilldown/N143815040214-0954.htm


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GH has been watching another player because Harry has been a net negative for at least the last three weeks!

[owian]

So kirkland is healthy enough to play for england but not Liverpool??

[kopiteinkc]

Live audio for free:

http://www.thefa.com/static/livefeed/facup_audio_frames.html

[kopiteinkc]

Liverpool

1 Jerzy Dudek
23 Jamie Carragher
3 Steve Finnan
2 Stephane Henchoz
4 Sami Hyypia
28 Bruno Cheyrou
17 Steven Gerrard
16 Dietmar Hamann
7 Harry Kewell
8 Emile Heskey
10 Michael Owen

Portsmouth

Shaka Hislop 1
Arjan De Zeeuw 6
Petri Pasanen 34
Linvoy Primus 2
Dejan Stefanovic 3
Eyal Berkovic 39
Amdy Faye 15
Nigel Quashie 11
Alexei Smertin 30
Ivica Mornar 37
Aiyegbeni Yakubu 20


Liverpool Substitutes
22 Chris Kirkland
25 Igor Biscan
13 Danny Murphy
20 Anthony Le Tallec
24 Florent Sinama Pongolle

[kopiteinkc]

5 minutes to kick off.

BBC Five Live gushing about Gerrard before the match. "Easily Liverpool's best player this season."

Come on you Reds!!

[kopiteinkc]

Lost the toss, attacking the Kop first half.

[kopiteinkc]

First minute Cheyrou to Gerrard to Owen, goal!!

[kopiteinkc]

Owen's 150th goal for Liverpool!

Aaah he's finished ;)

[LiverpoolFanatic]

I kept saying that once Owen got one the floodgates would open... Good start!