Predicting the Liverpool lineup vs. Hull City: Moreno back in? Can into midfield?

Brendan Rodgers’ Liverpool take on Hull City on Tuesday evening as they play their game in hand over top four rivals at the KC Stadium. Ben Twelves discusses the team selection options ahead of the fixture.

With their aspirations of a Champions League finish hanging by the loosest of threads, Liverpool travel to Hull to play a vital game in hand against Steve Bruce’s relegation threatened Tigers.

A victory would close the gap on fourth placed Man United to four points with the same number of games remaining – a gap that could have been decreased to only two had the Reds beaten West Brom on Saturday. Having passed up a big opportunity to claw back ground on the top four at the Hawthorns, Rodgers’ men cannot afford to miss another huge chance on Tuesday night.

The Reds are reliant on those above to drop points if they are to have any remote chance of stealing fourth, but they must concentrate on themselves first and foremost, starting with improving their recent form of one win in the last four matches, against Bruce’s men who have won only one of their last seven league games themselves.

Rodgers: “We can only focus on ourselves but we saw last year lots of changes can take place in the last five games or so. We just have to be prepared to give everything to finish as high as we can.”

Pressure is on for Rodgers’ side to come away with maximum points in what is their last chance to increase the tension on those above, and with no margin for error in Yorkshire, Rodgers could make some alterations to his side at the KC stadium – a ground Liverpool have tasted victory at just once in three visits.

The Team

Little has changed with the squad available to Rodgers and the Liverpool boss is once again to be without Mamadou Sakho and Daniel Sturridge who might miss the rest of the season, but midfield anchor-man Lucas Leiva could return to the squad for the trip having missed the last two matches.

Alberto Moreno also missed the goalless draw against West Brom with a slight knock but the Spanish defender could make a comeback to match-day involvement and with the game being the second in four days, Rodgers is likely to make some adjustments to his starting team for the clash.

Moreno’s possible presence at the back could see a shift in positions in the defence meaning Emre Can could be free to make a move into his natural midfield position, though the Liverpool boss could opt to reintroduce Joe Allen to the starting XI with Steven Gerrard needing a rest after completing successive 90 minutes against Aston Villa and the Baggies.

Adam Lallana’s return to fitness could see the 26-year-old handed the chance to build on his 15 minute cameo appearance at the weekend, and Lazar Markovic, who was unfairly withdrawn at Wembley, will be hopeful of reclaiming a starting shirt after being an unused substitute on Saturday.

In attack, Sturridge’s continued absence combined with the shortage of any meaningful forward options means Mario Balotelli could lead the line for successive matches, and despite the wealth of options available to join him, talented duo Jordon Ibe and Raheem Sterling could again be the men to form the Reds offense alongside the Italian.

Liverpool’s XI

After a number of tactical experiments failed to bear fruits at Wembley, Rodgers opted for a 4-3-3 last time out, and despite failing to make possession count, a largely dominant display within the shape could see the Liverpool boss deploy the formation again.

While Liverpool’s system therefore could remain the same, the personnel within it should alter slightly for the win-or-bust fixture, where Moreno should come back into the team at left back, allowing Glen Johnson to switch sides to play on the right.

Shuffling the defence like so means Emre Can is able to move into defensive midfield where he should replace Gerrard after the 34-year-old completed all 90 minutes in the last two games, and bring some much needed protection to the middle of the park in support of Philippe Coutinho and Jordan Henderson.

With the front three of Ibe, Sterling and Balotelli remaining the same, those small changes would see the Reds line up looking like this at the KC Stadium:

However, with the system failing to spark a blunt and uncreative Liverpool attack into life, Rodgers could instead switch to the 3-4-2-1 that did, originally, make a noticeable difference in that department.

The back three picks itself with Can adopting the right centre-back role alongside Martin Skrtel and Dejan Lovren, who turned in a better performance at the weekend, and Ibe should play ahead of the German at right-wing back, outside of a Henderson-Allen partnership.

Coutinho can then move into the shared No.10 role alongside Sterling with the pair supporting Balotelli where a hopefully more blistering attack materialises, and the change of shape should see Liverpool’s XI look like this come kick-off time Tuesday night:

It’s very much the last chance saloon for Rodgers and his side to assert themselves on the top four race on Tuesday night, when anything but three points from a must-win game will all but confirm Champions League football next season for those currently in the top four places.

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Respect R E S P E C T Anda pasti pernah mendengar perkataan dan kempen respect dalam bolasepak. Definisi Respect campaign merupakan satu program tanggungjawab sosial yang dilancarkan oleh Kesatuan Eropah melalui Persatuan Bola Sepak UEFA pada 2008. Objektif utamanya adalah untuk berusaha ke arah memantapkan perpaduan dan hormat menghormati merangkumi jantina, bangsa, agama dan status sosial. Projek Respect di UEFA EURO 2012 Ia adalah antara kejohanan yg menjadi platform awal kempen projek ini. Asasnya ia mempunyai empat pendirian utama: 1. Perjuangan menentang perkauman, 2. meningkatkan dan menambah baik akses untuk peminat kurang upaya, 3. mempromosikan kesihatan melalui aktiviti fizikal dan 4.Meningkatkan dialog antara penyokong pelbagai budaya. Duta untuk kempen tersebut ialah pengadil legend, Pierluigi Collina dari Itali dan pemain bola sepak Belanda Clarence Seedorf. Kempen ini memilih platform kejohanan Euro kerana ia adalah antara kejohanan yang menjadi tumpuan dunia. Pada kejohanan terbabit semua pasukan diwajibkan melekatkan badge respect di jersi. Are You Respect Enough ? Jom kita jelajah sama ada anda adalah komuniti bolasepak yang baik. Tak kisah la anda kaki bangku ke, tapi anda minat bola anda kena pilih sama ada nak join 1. Komuniti bolasepak yg baik 2. Sekadar penyokong pasukan saja Kita tengok point di atas dengan isu local. Boleh start tak ? Saya cuma akan highlight point no.1 saja sebab itu yang paling penting. Point point lain seperti akses kurang upaya, kesihatan dan dialog rasanya dah OK. 1. Hormati perkauman. Di Eropah, mereka adalah negara bangsa. Maksudnya asimilasi kaum amat sedikit pada ketika dahulu. Jika orang English dia ada negara England, bangsa Welsh ada Negara Wales dan Scottish ada Negara Scotland padahal dari segi sosio budaya dan appearances hampir sama. Cuma accent atau dialek berbeza. Isu rasis lebih terarah kepada masyarakat kulit hitam yg mula berasimilasi dengan penduduk tempatan. Rasis juga ada juga antara sesama negara Eropah yg berbentuk negara bangsa. Di Malaysia kita tidak ada negara bangsa. Yakni semua dialek dalam satu Malaysia digelar masyarakat majmuk. Jadi isu rasis ini boleh dikaitkan dengan kenegerian. Jika anda suka mengaitkan isu yg timbul akibat kesilapan dan kebodohan individu atau kumpulan dan anda rangkumkan mereka sebagai kesalahan kolektif satu negeri bermakna anda diluar kerangka good football community. Contoh, saya orang Sarawak, datang stadium serang penyokong negeri lain. Saya dah konpem bukan respect entity sebab serang orang. Now, pada anda yg tak puas hati terus generalized konklusi menyatakan, orang Sarawak pembunuh ! (Dengan izin). Macamana komuniti SARAWAK yg lain. Ramai mereka pun mengutuk tindakan saya yg serang orang walaupun sama negeri. Tapi bila ada konklusi secara sebaran media sosial menjadikan ia kesalahan umum ia akan jadi isu lain dan konklusi sukar dicapai kerana akan banyak isu berbangkit lain muncul. So anda yg update status dan accusation tadi juga bukan dalam kerangka komuniti pendokong kempen respect. Respect community akan specified the problem, keluarkan pihak bertanggungjawab, kritik dan kutuk yg bersalah atas kapasiti masalah orang itu bukan kerana negeri atau bangsa. Fokus kepada masalah dah elakkan mencipta masalah lain. Dan sudah pasti Ramai orang yg walaupun senegeri dengan pesalah, mereka pun akan attack sebagai kesalahan individu. Fokus lain kempen respect adalah kesamarataan jantina. Sebab itu saya tak pernah keluarkan kenyataan , awak tu perempuan, apa tahu? Memang mereka perempuan tetapi mereka apart of football comunity dan jika mereka ralat tentang rule janganla komen seksis. Sebab lelaki pun ramai tak main bola dan tak tahu rule tapi tengok bola. Jadi elakkan budaya provokasi murahan menggelar team lain dengan nama seperti Looserpool, Munyet, Chelshit, Arsengal dan Shitty. Ia tidak menghormati perbezaan atau keterbukaan dalam memilih. Kalau banter manje manje tu tak apa tetapi jangan terlalu ekstrim dan menghina dan menghentam pilihan orang lain. Saya penyokong Liverpool saya minat David Beckham , dan saya juga mengagumi Arsenal sebagai free flow football team pada era Arsene Wenger merampas tahta dengan invicible. Jangan setakat sokong pasukan, sokong semangat bolasepak. Jika anda duduk di meja dengan ayah atau abang ipar anda tetapi mereka pakai jersi pasukan lain adakah anda akan cakap Looserpool atau Munyet?? Tak , sebab anda respect mereka. So terapkan budaya respect dan beautiful football. Kalau semua sokong satu team mana meriah lepak mamak kan. Saya layan troll tapi saya tak suka troll melampau sebab saya sayangkan hubungan saya dengan rakan yg sama minat bola dengan saya. Kelompok brung hantu yg berjaga. Kalau nak nganjing lebih lebih pergi group yg sesuai. Tak kisah la anda penyokong BPL ke , la Liga ke , Serie A, Bundesliga termasuk Liga tempatan, Jadi penyokong yg hormat orang lain sebagai keluarga dalam komuniti bolasepak. W E A R E R I V A L N O T E N E M Y ! **penulisan ini adalah pendapat peribadi RESPECT !

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Hull boss Steve Bruce backs fans' protest over rising ticket prices

Steve Bruce: The Hull boss has called for action to stop the rising ticket prices

Hull boss Steve Bruce has called for Premier League officials to act to curb rising ticket prices ahead of his side's KC Stadium clash with Liverpool on Tuesday.

Visiting fans' group Spirit of Shankly is organising a boycott of the game in protest at the £50 admission charge and Bruce has echoed Liverpool counterpart Brendan Rodgers in backing its right to do so.

"I feel sorry for the supporters of big clubs who have to dig deep every week and I hope when the new TV money comes into play the Premier League can remember football does belong to supporters.

"I know how difficult it is for people here at our club to find the money to bring their two kids to a football match and we have to make sure with all the money washing around we give something back to the fans.

"We have to remember the average man in the street because they are the lifeblood of football and I think if the Premier League set certain rules we would all have to abide by them."

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Managing Liverpool FC: The impossible job?

Si Steers assesses the structure of Liverpool FC, why managing the Reds demands sustained success, and adds to the calls for a Sporting Director.

Let’s face it, when judging any manager at Liverpool it is always against the achievements of the past. ‘First is first and second is nowhere’ is a fine philosophy and ambition – but it is also sometimes a noose around a managers neck at the club – as anything other than that is deemed as embracing mediocrity.

We have been fortunate to have had some transformational and world class managers throughout our history; but, it would be interesting to see how the likes of Bill Shankly and Bob Paisley operated (and survived) in today’s game. The difficulty managers have at Liverpool in today’s game is that there is a gap between expectation and reality – we walk like a big club, we talk like a big club, but the truth is we are trying to regain, not retain our status as a big club.

This makes the manager’s job almost an impossible task – it doesn’t matter if you reach 2 European Cup finals in five years (winning one of them), or come agonisingly close to winning a first league title in twenty years – there will always be a demand for more.

Of course, a pre-requisite for any manager at the club should be ambition. They should recognise that winning is at the heart of the club’s DNA – and align everything they do to making the club the very best it can. But the simple fact is that the constraints to winning will not be found inside the manager’s office at Melwood – it is far more complex than that.

Every single manager in the games has his strengths and weaknesses, nobody is perfect, and nobody ticks every box. In today’s game, the traditional ‘manager’ has far less authority and importance in the overall structure of a club. At the biggest clubs, ‘managers’ are in fact first team coaches, who retain a voice in decision making, but are rarely the authority.

The structure at Liverpool FC

When FSG created the ‘transfer committee’ at Liverpool it was an attempt to provide the club with a competitive edge in the transfer market, and a compromise to accommodate the man they wanted to take the club forward.

The transfer committee get a huge amount of stick at Liverpool for failures in the market, but the track record isn’t by any means a long list of failures. It is easier to pick on the failures, but the committee has also delivered a number of successes as well – and with some of the younger players, we may not see the rewards immediately.

The biggest issue with the structure at the club is the lack of accountability on transfers. There is no real transparency in who makes the final decision on players, this leads to a perception that there is a tension in decision making.

The overarching transfer strategy at Liverpool is a sound one; recruiting young players and developing them into stars. But that isn’t the entire picture – when the club has looked to more established names, in the higher end of the market, it has so far struggled to source value or recruit the level of player we aspire to sign.

The strategy at that end of the market seems far less clear, the recruitment of players from England seems a strange methodology for a club that is intent on sourcing value. It is near impossible to find value in the English market.

There seems to be a gaping hole in the structure at the club; somebody that has overall accountability for recruitment, and can ensure that there is a holistic and aligned approach to how we recruit players. Somebody that sets a direction of travel (e.g. we do not recruit players from England at the higher end of the market unless there is an exceptional case).

I do not buy into the idea that the transfer committee is a failure at Liverpool; but what it has given us is a bit of a halfway house that creates far too many distractions for the manager and the club. It creates a noise and a culture of politicking; there is a great deal of sense in sourcing collective knowledge, but decision by committee looks to be proving an idea that is hindering, not helping us.

A Sporting Director immediately brings overall accountability to our recruitment, and gives the club one decision maker. The concept of feeding information in and discussing targets by committee is still sound – and the manager is still a key part of that process – but is relieved of the burden of accountability for recruitment.

The first team coach

The days of a manager building a power base at football clubs are in huge decline. Most clubs now devolve power to different specialist disciplines across a range of areas. The first team coach is still one of the most important roles at the club; and can provide a competitive edge between success and failure.

But, if the structure is right, then in some ways clubs can be coach agnostic – e.g. a coach with the right credentials can slot in and the overall philosophy at the club doesn’t change.

If you look at the credentials that a first team coach needs to succeed at Liverpool, the ability to develop young players is absolutely critical. A coach that can guide players on that development journey from the academy into the first team is at the heart of the model the club is committed to.

Of course, you need more than being a good coach. You also need to be tactically strong and not averse to taking risks. In a game where money dictates what you achieve; the only way to bridge that gap is by looking at the game in a different way – not being afraid to take risks.

A coach that looks to the status quo is never going to succeed at a club like Liverpool, especially in the short term.

Is Rodgers the man to take us forward?

Brendan Rodgers biggest difficulty is his lack of a track record prior to Liverpool. He was 39 when he got the job, so joined us still very much in his development phase. At 42, he is still on that journey.

The lack of a track record has meant that Rodgers has been distracted by trying to build a persona; he has had to try and build a profile of a man that belongs at Liverpool, but this sometimes comes across as arrogance or over confidence when he talks.

Rodgers’ refusal to work with a Sporting Director has also created an issue for him. It has exposed his weakness and left him wide open to attacks on his ability in recruitment.

The difficulty Rodgers has goes back to the question is managing Liverpool an impossible job?

One thing that you cannot say about Rodgers is that he lacks ambition or purpose. He has also proven that he can innovate – the move to 3-4-3 in December took us on another incredible run of form, our second in two seasons under Rodgers.

People like to shift the narrative when it comes to Rodgers, but I don’t think that is exclusive to him. The frustration of a promising season fading into nothing means that questions have to be asked – but it doesn’t mean that the manager has got everything wrong. It is easy to say that Luis Suarez took us to a whisker of the title last year, and Rodgers had nothing to do with it. But the flip side of that is if Rodgers has the right tools, then he is capable of competing at the top of the league.

This season has been underwhelming because we made the wrong decisions on recruitment in the summer. It has meant that we have had to find a way to function as a team, but it has key parts missing. That is the key area we need to fix.

Most of the things we did well last season we haven’t done well this, we’ve lacked pace and intensity, we haven’t pressed the ball. Luis Suarez may have set the tone, but we’ve tried to redress the balance between attack and defence this season which in some ways has diluted our identity in a negative way.

I think Rodgers can succeed at Liverpool in the right structure, it may mean he has to change his ideas on his role at the club, but he has the attributes to help build the club to where they want to be. The difficulty he has is that so do others, the likes of Jurgen Klopp are also a great fit for Liverpool.

The bottom line is that managing Liverpool is an impossible job, as anything other than sustained success is deemed as failure, which is why the structure at the club should devolve so that each area of accountability has clear boundaries, and that the success or failure of the club is not the responsibility of any one man.

One thing is clear, to overachieve we need everybody at the club aligned – and it is only by overachieving that we will see any kind of short term success.

Rodgers can still be the man to guide us there, but he may need to change his ideas first.

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Adam Lallana: Could return to Liverpool starting line-up

Hull boss Steve Bruce could see his injury problems eased for their Premier League clash with Liverpool at the KC Stadium on Tuesday.

Mohamed Diame and Andy Robertson are both pushing to return after missing out on the Tigers' potentially priceless win at Crystal Palace on Saturday.

David Meyler is once again absent due to suspension while Steve Harper is set to continue in goal in place of the out-of-form Allan McGregor.

Liverpool are again without striker Daniel Sturridge and are unsure when he will be fit to return.

Sturridge, who has had an injury-hit campaign, has missed three games with a hip problem and manager Brendan Rodgers has admitted he does not know if he will play again this term.

Midfielder Adam Lallana (groin) returned after a groin injury as a substitute at West Brom on Saturday while defender Mamadou Sakho (thigh) and midfielder Lucas Leiva (thigh) are getting closer to fitness.

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