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Du glemmer, at forsvarsmulighederne i den første CC-kamp ikke var mange. Sakho og Ilori var ikke skiftet til LFC endnu. Coates og Skrtel var skadede, og Kelly spillede for reserverne som en del af genoptræningen. Agger blev sparet, og derfor gav tre ud af fire pladser i forsvaret næsten sig selv. Kun Cissokho for Enrique kan betegnes som et klart valg fra Rodgers´ side. Til morgendagens kamp er Cissokho og Johnson skadet, og Sakho viste sig som en ret dårlig back i weekenden. At starte med Enrique virker altså igen ikke som et valg. Jeg mener, at det største talent til venstreback, Brad Smith, fik revet sit korsbånd over i sidste sæson, og Robinson er udlejet.

At Gerrard og Sturridge startede var da måske nok overraskende, men i så fald skal der ikke meget til, før Rodgers pludselig stiller med et stærkt hold.

Hvis Allen ikke er kommet sig fuldstændig over sin skade, så kan Rodgers få svært ved at spare spillere som Lucas og Gerrard. Coady, Teixeira og Suso, som er de talenter, der er tættest på førsteholdet, er alle udlånte, og en spiller som 16-årige Rositter, der spillede for U21-holdet, er nok for ung trods alt. Alternativet til Gerrard og Lucas, hvis Allen er skadet, er Henderson og Alberto, og det vil være et mærkeligt match uanset modstanderen. Allen er dog med i truppen, og hvis han er klar, så får han en af de to bageste pladser på midtbanen.

Sterling og Alberto tror jeg også får spilletid, og det kunne meget vel være i stedet for Aspas og Moses.

David Moyes warns of ´more blows´ to come at Manchester United

• Scot admits to difficult start as Old Trafford manager
• Robin van Persie out of Capital One Cup tie with Liverpool

David Moyes has admitted he might have to "take a few more blows" in his first season as Manchester United manager, warning there will be more difficult times to come as he tries to make the handover from Sir Alex Ferguson as seamless as possible.

Moyes, who missed out on several targets during the transfer window, said he was "shocked" by the 4-1 thrashing against Manchester City on Sunday, and indicated for the first time that the team he inherited from Ferguson had obvious deficiencies. The former Everton manager has previously talked about a side who are capable of winning the Premier League and Champions League, but now appears to have his own doubts about their quality. "I think a lot of people thought Manchester United [winning the title] last season, that it was probably the form of the other teams that was poor," he said.

Moyes had not initially planned to hold a press conference to preview Wednesday´s Capital One Cup tie against Liverpool but changed his mind after the City defeat. "I think it´s important that I took the punches," he explained. "I´ve taken the punches and I´m happy to do that. Not for a minute did I think this Manchester United job was going to be an easy job. There will be days like we had on Sunday and there might be more of them because we are in a period where there will be transition, there´s a new manager for the players and, in turn, there will be new players.

"I don´t think it´s actually the squad, I think we´ve got numbers. I think maybe we´ve got work to do to bring in players not for the squad but to go right into the team. It´s not necessarily the squad players we needed, we needed one or two who might have gone in [to the team]. That will happen. But going back to that transfer window, we always said it was going to be a tough one and it was going to take a little bit more time.

"It does mean I may have to take a few more blows, definitely. Maybe even more than that. Maybe all season I have to take a few blows but I knew this was going to be the case because I was taking over from a great manager and it was always going to take time for me to get my own ways and change things round a little bit."

Liverpool have already beaten United this season and Moyes, still missing the injured Robin van Persie, must decide whether to stick to the club´s usual policy of using younger players in this competition or fielding a stronger side than he had originally planned to lessen the risk of a bad few days getting any worse.

"I think the team has played well [overall]. If you were being really fair you´d have to say that Manchester United have played well, but that [City] was a poor performance, really. We have not played badly except at Manchester City.

"We looked quite easy to play against, which is not the norm for Manchester United. I think the one thing here is that any team should always have a hard game against Manchester United. But I thought we were just too easy to play against. It was the basics. I hadn´t seen that before. I also have to say I hadn´t seen that level of performance from Manchester City either. But I hadn´t seen that poor a performance from us, so there was quite a contrast."

City, by Moyes´s own admission, might have made his first experience of the Manchester derby even more harrowing, the United manager accepting that Manuel Pellegrini´s team had looked capable of scoring six or seven when they took a 4-0 lead early in the second half. "I´m not daft. I know we were in real danger at that moment. I took a little bit [of encouragement] that we tried to make sure nothing went any further because at that time it could have. But, by that time, Manchester City knew they didn´t have to do any more, so I´m also aware of that."

Van Persie is still troubled by a groin injury, with Moyes rating him as having only an "outside chance" for Saturday´s game at home to West Bromwich Albion.

"You just hope there will be a reaction and I´m sure there will be," United´s manager continued. "When you´ve got the players we have, I can see it written all over their faces how they feel.

"It doesn´t really matter whether I have seen a reaction [in training]. The reaction has to be seen when you people [media and public] can see it. I´m still getting to know all the players here. I´ll get a chance to know more of them this week, and hopefully they will show what they can do."

Forfriskende at høre ham sige tingene ligeud.

Aftenens opstilling:
De Gea;
Rafael, Evans, Smalling, Buttner;
Nani, Jones, Giggs, Kagawa;
Rooney, Hernandez

Subs: Amos, Fabio, Anderson, Carrick, Zaha, Januzaj, Welbeck

Fint, at han ikke satser stort på kampen - lidt ærgerligt, at han vil spille med både Hernandez og Rooney, så Kagawa kommer ud på kanten igen.

Håber at se både Zaha og Januzaj i løbet af kampen.

Spillet lider klart undet at Jones og Giggs udgør den centrale midtbane, samt at Kagawa, Evans og Hernandez ikke er i kampform...

Det er vigtigt Moyes lærer af Ferguson der altid sørgede for at holde alle spillere skarpe! DEr er brug for alle og de skal alle være klar, og det bliver de kun ved at spille regelmæssigt.

ja kønt er det ikke..

Men alligevel bedre end når Young er med.

Vores midtbane er jo aldrig god uden Carrick, og jeg kan ikke se hvad Giggs bringer mere.... men rart at nogle af spillerne får lidt minutter i benene.

Ja, vi er nødt til at spille Kagawa, Hernandez og ikke mindst Evans og Jones noget mere. De er vigtige og kommer til at spille mange kampe - ergo skal de i form, nu!

Det er egentlig utroligt så ofte Büttner er fejlplaceret rent defensivt.

The former Everton manager has previously talked about a side who are capable of winning the Premier League and Champions League, but now appears to have his own doubts about their quality. "I think a lot of people thought Manchester United [winning the title] last season, that it was probably the form of the other teams that was poor," he said.

Idioti.