Liverpool vs Stoke City Match Preview 05/01/2016

                                           Liverpool vs Stoke City Match Preview 05/01/2016

Tonight Liverpool face Stoke City in the semi finals of the capital one cup where it is a chance for the players to avenger their poor performances as of late.

I feel as though this game can go one of two ways. If the players turn up and play well then we will win similar to the performance which seen us beat Manchester City however we could be the complete opposite and play like we did against West Ham which could see us out of the cup.

Brendan Rodgers had 3 years as Liverpool manager won 0 trophies and finished in the top four once. Jurgen Klopp has us in 3 months kept us in the cup competitions with us in the Europa league knock out stages and still in this cup at the semi final stage. I feel as though it is only a matter of time until we see success return to our club.

However, back to the game this will be a tough game we won here in August 1-0 thanks to a screamer from Phil Coutinho avenging a 6-1 defeat we suffered the season before. I am confident about tonight though because we seem to have this way of turning up in the big games and this is a big game leg 1 of 2 for a chance to play Manchester City or Everton in the future at Wembley.

For me if we want to win tonight the starting 11 needs to be-:Mignolet, Clyne, Lovren, Sakho, Moreno, Lucas, Can, Ibe, Lallana, Coutinho.

I'm not Lallana's biggest fan but we've only lost once this year when Lallana has started so that statistic alone makes me want to play Lallana even though I do believe that Firmino will come good before the end of the season.

However, my prediction for the game is-:
My head says Stoke 2-0 Liverpool
My heart says Stoke 1-3 Liverpool 3
So lets hope that my heart is right and there will be a review after the match as well Enjoy!