King Kenny got his team selection and tactics wrong on Saturday afternoon against Man Utd.
He oped for a cautious, defensive line-up with Luis Suarez up-front as Kuyt lined up on the right wing and youngsters Spearing and Henderson were in midfield, bizarrely at the expence of Charlie Adam.

United 2: Rooney 47′ 49′
Liverpool 1: Suarez 80′

United get a deserved victory on the strength of a Wayne Rooney brace, taking advantage of a lifeless performance in the second half from a Liverpool side that were wholly disappointing. Given the occasion and atmosphere you'd have expected Liverpool to at least show up, but on the day they lacked any sense of urgency, purpose or desire.

Saturday is going to be a hard game, it always is at Goodison. Everton boosted by the signings of Donovan, Gibson and possibly Jelavic making his debut will be up for this one after we beat them earlier in the season at Stamford Bridge.
The big questions will be over AVB's team selection.

Arsenal are now just three points behind Chelsea in the coveted fourth place in the Premiership, so a win is an absolute must this weekend at Sunderland, but with the (perhaps more important?) Champions League tie against AC Milan coming up in midweek, Wenger will be considering his team selection very carefully.

I imagine there will be people angry about this but City have won every single home game this year, right? So quite what we were supposed to do about that I'm not sure. People talk about our record at Eastlands but that was before City became CITY and, well, honestly...

The shame was that the game was over before it had begun, Adam Johnson managing to fall over Chris Baird in the area to win a dodgy penalty to make it 1-0, then Baird put through his own goal to make it two before we'd even started to play.

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That's how we all feel mate...If i walked into a club, thinking and acting like i was better than everybody else, i'd most probably, within an hour and a half or so, get battered. Which is exactly what happened to Liverpool on Saturday. They walked into Bolton's club, acting like they were better than them, like the three points were theirs before they'd kicked a ball and then, they were battered.

With five starting defenders and a further three on the bench, many Liverpool fans were surprised by the negative approach against Stoke at Anfield yesterday. However, according to Kenny Dalglish, the team he put out was 'dictated' to him by the circumstances of the day. Speaking after the game, Kenny seemed to be aware of the criticism of his team selection, and provided the following

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The Wolves forums are awash with abuse aimed at manager Mick McCarthy. Not necessarily saying he should be axed, but criticising his team selection and tactics. There are two schools of thought, the first that he will play defensive and put 10 men behind the ball, or the second is that he will put out an attacking side and just go for it.

Marquette's Calum Mallace was taken by the Montreal Impact as the 1st pick in the 2nd round of today's MLS SuperDraft. The Minnesota native who won Big East Midfielder of the Year honors and was also Marquette's lone All-BIG EAST First Team selection (2nd time selection), was the 20th overall pick in the 2012 draft.

Fernando Torres, Chelsea's No. 10.

The Spaniard again failed to find the score sheet, but provided the necessary creativity that resulted in a late torrent of goals and a largely flattering 4-0 victory over visiting Portsmouth in the third round of the FA Cup. We weren't anywhere near our best, but we'll take it.

I think right now as a Chelsea fan we want two things from today. First and foremost we want and desperately need three points and secondly, a performance would be nice!.
No one would have imagined that we would find ourselves in the position we are in at the moment and no one would have predicted the result on Saturday against Aston Villa.

How many times this season have we looked like we can beat anyone and then in an instant struggle to win games?. It's so frustrating once again this season and Saturday against Fulham proved to me once again that when sides come to the Bridge and line up defensively, we struggle to break them down.

When was the last time you heard the words "Wenger must buy" followed by any of the following: Jagielka, Cahill, Samba, Hangeland?

It seems only weeks ago that were as many headlines linking us with other clubs' defenders as there are stars in the sky or skeletons in John Terry's closet.

Now.

While Aaron Lennon is definitely out of tomorrow's match with Chelsea, Gareth Bale is also rated as very doubtful for the clash.

Speaking at a press conference ahead of the game, Spurs manager Harry Redknapp gave his comments on how the two wide men are progressing and the news on Lennon is a little more encouraging than first thought,

"Gareth's struggling at the moment," reported Harry.

Thanks to the Siberian oligarch's team conceding a late equaliser at the DW stadium last night the Arsenal travel to Rowsley Street, hoping to go level third on points as long as the Sunderland revival continues at the Looters habitat in the swamplands of N17.

The Etihad stadium is east of central Manchester and is a stadium leased from Manchester Municipal council, the irony of the world's wealthiest club occupying a council property is not lost on the majority of clubs in football struggling to make ends meet.

Thanks to the Siberian oligarch's team conceding a late equaliser at the DW stadium last night the Arsenal travel to Rowsley Street, hoping to go level third on points as long as the Sunderland revival continues at the Looters habitat in the swamplands of N17.

The Etihad stadium is east of central Manchester and is a stadium leased from Manchester Municipal council, the irony of the world's wealthiest club occupying a council property is not lost on the majority of clubs in football struggling to make ends meet.

Tomorrow in the later kick off Chelsea take on Wigan in our next Premier League fixture buzzing off the back of another win on the spin against Manchester City last Monday night. Chelsea have David Luiz back after suspension and no new injury concerns so it makes for an interesting team selection by AVB.

Tottenham Hotspur went to the Tallaght stadium needing a Lyon type turnaround to make it through to the knock-out rounds. From his team selection, including only choosing four subs, it appeared that Harry Redknapp wasn't really counting on the results going Spurs way.

As the game got started it was clear that Shamrock would try hard and run around a lot.

"Football is a simple game" were four words of Graham Taylor's wisdom when he was managing Watford up the Football League in the late 70s and early 80s. And his Watford sides certainly "kept it simple." But it is an unfortunate consequence of the contemporary 24-hour news culture that "keeping" football analysis "simple" leaves a gap in the media schedules.

KANSAS CITY, Kan. – Two Virginia women's soccer players were named All-Americans as the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) announced its 2011 awards on Friday. Freshman midfielder Morgan Brian (St. Simons Island, Ga.) was named a first-team All-American and junior forward Caroline Miller (Rockville, Md.

The midfielders who made the the offenses go for the Marquette and University of Wisconsin men's soccer teams this fall were honored with spots on the National Soccer Coaches Association of America All-Great Lakes Region team.

Golden Eagles senior Calum Mallace was a first-team selection on the regional team, while Badgers junior Tomislav Zadro made the second team.

Winning is a habit, however, occasionally competitions have to be prioritised and anyone slating the team selection for the Olympiacos game needs to understand that.

Football is down to money, and whilst the Champions League may bring in more money than the majority of football clubs could ever dream of having, one away tie with the group already won can afford to be treated as an insignificant game.

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The fans in the forums of PAOK are adopting the same outlook of the game as all of our Europa league opponents. If we play our kids, they have a chance, if we play a half a team of key players, they'll get beat. The rest of this opposition fan forum preview is brought to you by the Greek Google translate, which was obviously having a day off, or was trying to sell me a clarinet.

Today's discussion is likely to revolve around who will play tonight, but I would like to start by investigating whether we should care about tonight's result.

It would be fair to say that the fans are evenly split as to whether AW should put out a strong team in order to get into the semi's, hopefully to put last year's Wembley nightmare behind us, and those who think the team need to concentrate upon other targets.

Today's discussion is likely to revolve around who will play tonight, but I would like to start by investigating whether we should care about tonight's result.

It would be fair to say that the fans are evenly split as to whether AW should put out a strong team in order to get into the semi's, hopefully to put last year's Wembley nightmare behind us, and those who think the team need to concentrate upon other targets.

By 1970"s GoonerFor the first reason I would agree with Wenger. The team did look jaded. Tiredness was very apparent to me especially in the second half where some of the players' energy did begin to fail them. One example was Song who was replaced in midfield by Diaby and also Ramsey who was not himself yesterday.

I had mixed emotions after today's trip to the Emirates but if I am honest I was generally pleased with the overall performance and the character shown to come back from a goal down against a well organised and disciplined Fulham side who fought hard throughout.The surprise in the team selection was that Arshavin came in for Gervinho and I have to say that the big negative of the game was the

Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish knows he has some tough calls to make as he seeks to end Manchester City's unbeaten start to the Premier League season.
The Scot is not averse to effecting a seemingly random change to what appears an established team, often with some degree of success.
He did so last weekend when Maxi Rodriguez marked his first league start of the season with a goal in the win at Chelsea but this Sunday the calculations are likely to be even trickier.

Liverpool v Manchester City: Kenny Dalglish says Andy Carroll 'playing his best football'

Kenny Dalglish says form is the main factor in his team selection as £35m striker Andy Carroll pushes for a start against league leaders Manchester City at Anfield on Sunday after scoring twice in the corresponding fixture last season.

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Calum Mallace (Henry Sibley HS, Minn.) finished his senior year with the Marquette Golden Eagles by winning Big East Midfielder of the Year honors. Mallace, who was also Marquette's lone All-BIG EAST First Team selection (2nd time selection), led the Golden Eagles with six assists and added three goals en route to a 12-point senior [.

Tottenham's Brazilian goalkeeper Heurelho Gomes could be on his way out of the club after he had a ugly altercation with coach Harry Redknapp. Apparently, this latest burst up comes as a result of built up tensions between the player and the coach dating back to Tottenham's opening league fixture against United in August.

Even Robbie Keane's cartwheel was less over-used.Poor old Harry. One suspects that watching Spurs desperately defend a one goal lead from the touchline is cause enough for coronary problems. But to have suffered through that last half an hour whilst recovering from actual heart surgery at home in Poole can't have done anything for the old ticker.

3 Goals. 3 Points. A Clean Sheet. Should make the upcoming fortnight very pleasant for Gooners around the world.

Arsene's team selection was very much along the expected lines. Indeed, Le Boss mentioned that the reason for picking Koscielny and Vermaelen in the defence was to counter the anticipated pace threat of Odemwinge.

The fans on the Fulham message boards are generally not confident about this one. Both teams had a mid week Europa game, Fulham won, and Spurs lost, but Fulham played their full team, whilst ours stayed home in the warm. They think that this, plus the fact that Modric and Parker are dominating teams at the moment will see Fulham defeated.

Right then, Champions League action tonight and we take on Marseille.

There's something of a history there between the French club and Arsene Wenger. Fierce rivals while he was manager of Monaco, there was the whole them being completely corrupt and bribey stuff too. The manager will have played that down beforehand but still it rumbles on.

Wayne Rooney scored two second half penalties as 10 men United got their European campaign back on track with a hard fought three points against Otelul Galati. Much was made of Sir Alex's team selection against Liverpool on Saturday, and on a day when Mancunian legends Stone Rose announced their comeback, the United manager [.