I see what you've done there DM, play 12 & confuse them.

This operation, will make the 'Charge Of The Light Brigade' seem like a simple military exercise.

Probably 999 ... someone call the police because it could be murder on the pitch. After our dismal performance on Wednesday, Liverpool will seek to capitalise on dropped heads and shoulders.

Denial is not just a river in Egypt

It will be interesting to see how we set up tactically.
Against the better teams Roy usually looks to block the spaces through the middle and in and around the penalty area.
Wide areas are left relatively unmanned with the responsibility left to our defenders to deal with crosses.
This is a dangerous tactic v Liverpool who concentrate their attacks in wide areas, creating overloads down the sides with lots of pace.
A game for a 451 or 541 formation designed to avoid being hit on the counterattack or exposed in wide areas.
Sadly I still can’t see us stopping them scoring or being able to exploit the space left behind their attacking full backs.
Bring back the Wilf of a few years ago!

Mitchell is out and quite possibly Olise too.
Perhaps a game to play direct and bypass the midfield with Edouard and Mateta up front as a two.
Surprise them.
Otherwise it could be another damage limitation exercise undone when Liverpool score the first goal.
We won’t outplay them, so we have to find other ways.

Has been tried but the only people likely to be surprised will be us. Mateta is likely to fall over his own legs rather than score and Edouard only marginally better.
A 1-8-1-1 line up looks likely. If the manager was devoid of ideas in our last 4 matches what will change?

I don’t disagree about the merits of Edouard and Mateta, but feel that at least Liverpool would keep 3 defenders back so as not to leave them unmarked.
If Doucoure, Eze and Olise aren’t playing we won’t be able to pass through midfield and our best bet may be try to make the game as ugly as possible.
Luton drew with Liverpool by mixing it up and were very unlucky not to draw with Arsenal using the same methods.
Make it like a cup tie.

It’s probably academic as we don’t do it anyway.
We’ll sacrifice half of the field ,sit deep, invite pressure and wait for their inevitable breakthrough.