A message to Roy Hodgson in an effort to rediscover our firepower in font of goal. Start Milan Jovanovic upfront.
The 29 year-old Serbian has a very good goal-scoring record as a striker with his former club Standard Liege with 69 goals in 153 appearances for the Belgian side.
Indeed, he was named Belgian player of the year in 2008 and won the Belgian Golden Boot award in 2009 with 16 goals in 29 games.
With Fernando Torres injured again with a groin strain and David Ngog not able to cut it in the Premiership as yet, if I were Roy Hodgson, under as much pressure as he is, I would definitely start Milan in the Merseyside derby on Sunday-week. Did you see how well he put away his goal against Northampton Town in the League Cup defeat ? It was very well-taken and there is much more to come from the Serbian International, if he is given the right opportunity.
As an out and out forward, he has the physical presence to unsettle defenders and he has a proven eye for goal both for club and country. So Roy, you have got nothing left to lose at this stage, give the man a run up front and see if he can turn our club’s fortunes around.
Follow us on twitter @live4Liverpool
Live4Liverpool is recruiting columnists. For further info contact the site editor at editor@live4liverpool.com
EA Sports’ New MMA Game Trailer!
two names that should be included:
David Amoo and Suso!could they do any worse than we already are in front of goal? this season to a large extent can be already written off. so, lets look to improve the squad (new owners, get your wallets out) and to promote from the youth ranks, we need the next Stevie G to come through!
lets start to build a team in the next year or so, one that will keep LFC going for the next 4-6 years without a massive amount of investment , then money can be freed up to build this F*cking stadium that should’ve been already built by now.
lets get back to winning ways, we are LFC!
YNWA
Milan Jovanovic? Really? Do you guys goto Anfield? the guy is terrible..
Ngog is a raw diamond, trust me he is going to be sensational.
Babel should be up front for definite.
Agree that the youngsters should be playing some part, Amoo, Shelvey and Pacheco definitely deserve to be on the bench.
Lucas isnt that bad.
Poulsen needs to get a haircut
Gerrard and Torres need to wake up
Hodgson needs to grow some ba**s and do the following
Drop Carragher and play Agger alongside Kyri
Play Kelly at RB and Move Johnson to RW
Drop Kuyt
Grow more ba**s and tell Joe Cole to play wide left, its where he made a name for himself both with England (goal against sweden in EC) and Chelsea
Play the following players in a 4-4-1-1
Reina
Aurelio (when fit) or Mavinga/Robinson (anyone but Konchesky)
Agger
Kyri
Kelly
Cole (LM)
Gerrard
Meirales
Johnson
Torres (behind babel, he has the ability)
Babel (at the mo, has more faith in his pace than torres does)
buy ardan turan,play RW.joecole LW.gerarrd n meireles CM.kuyt/babel behind torres.. sell poulsen,lucas, n buy eva benega. come on RH,dont let livpool ashame.
From what he has shown he is not the man to replace Torres. Babel is more capable for that than him.
I’d play Jova up front!!!
I however believe we can play better with a 3 man central defence of Agger, Skrtel and Carra with Glen Johnson at RW and Milan/Aurelio at LW.
This way we can better handle the aerial threats that have been bombarding our defense from “lesser” teams and force play out wide. The central defenders must be disciplined not to be pulled out wide and trust that back up will come in the form of the Defensive Midfielders/Wings.
Sitting in front of the back 4( or 5 defenders when under attack ) will be Meireles. I initially wanted Poulsen but have come to see that I’d rather have Jay Spearing over him. Joe Cole has to play in the hole behind Torres. Stevie G has to be in the centre of the park.
———————-Reina———————
——-Carra———Skrtel——–Agger——–
-Glen—-Meireles———Spearing——Aurelio-
————-Stevie G——Joe Cole————-
—————Torres/Jova———————-
Above formation when Defending
———————Reina———————-
————Skrtel———-Agger—————
—Carra————Meireles———–Aurelio–
Glen——–Stevie G——Spearing/Jova———
————Torres/Jova—-Joe Cole————-
Above formation when attacking from RIGHT ( Glen turns offensive, provides width/ Aurelio turns defensive) .
——————–Reina———————
————Carra———Skrtel————–
—Glen———–Spearing—————Agger
———-Meireles——–Stevie G————
——————Joe Cole————-Aurelio
——————Torres/Jova—————–
Above formation when attacking from LEFT- Glen turns defensive/Aurelio Offensive.
In this set up Torres or Jova when Torres is injured or Ngog will get much needed service from the wings AND the centre AND Agger gets time on the field where he can take the ball up park as well as play major roles in set pieces/ corners.