Ohh!! Young bloods to play against Udinese

Andre Wisdom

Andre Wisdom is a central defender under a lot of pressure at the club because he has to follow in the foot steps of Jamie Carragher. Wisdom played well against Young Boys and he has a number of key attributes which he must utilise to mute the effectiveness of the Udinese attack. His main asset is pace which allows him to get out of trouble if he is caught out of position and also to cover for others when they are out of position.

Nuri Sahin

Nuri Sahin is the Turkish international on loan from Real Madrid. Sahin has come into the team more and more on all fronts in the last two weeks. He is a creative player and is always looking to make things happen when Liverpool are on the move. He will see a lot of the ball on Thursday and he will be very influential if his touch and control are both immaculate.

Oussama Assaidi

This is a name that not many neutral football fans will be aware of. The Moroccan player is a winger who can also play as a forward. He will be key against Udinese if he starts or comes off of the bench in terms of injecting pace into the team and also providing width. He can play on either wing which makes him a very useful tool for Rodgers to have in terms of Liverpool’s attack for this game.

Daniel Pacheco

Pacheco is a forward who was on the books at Barcelona during his time as a youth player. He is extremely talented in the hole or playing as a main forward. He has represented Spain at every level up to the Under-21s and this is a great chance for him to break into the Liverpool first team. He needs to stick on the Udinese back line and make sure they cannot push up.

Jerome Sinclair

Jerome Sinclair is another talented striker that Liverpool have at their disposal and Rodgers may decide to throw him in at the deep end after making him Liverpool’s youngest ever player in the League Cup match against West Brom. Sinclair is slight and quick which will make him useful moving from central to wider positions. His pace is quick enough to stretch the Udinese defence and he will be a real threat coming off the subs bench late in the game.

P/S: They will definitely get a chance to play against Udinese.

Ohh!! Suarez Hatrick sinks Norwich City

Lightning struck twice for Luis Suarez at Carrow Road as the Uruguayan once again terrorised Norwich with a scintillating hat-trick to help Liverpool to a 5-2 victory.

Just as he was five months ago, the Uruguayan was simply unplayable, hammering home a variety of strikes while Nuri Sahin and Steven Gerrard added their names to the scoresheet.

As the teams lined up, the Norwich supporters might have struggled to recognise some of the young faces in the Reds' starting XI as Suso took to the field and Andre Wisdom was handed his Barclays Premier League debut by Brendan Rodgers.

Perhaps even more unfamiliar was the vivid orange, white and nightshade third-strip the Liverpool players donned for the game.

But one face was all too recognizable to the home crowd, as it had been etched onto their memory on a rainy Norwich afternoon in April, when hat-trick hero Suarez single-handedly demolished them.

And while the last stragglers were still taking their seats on a sunny afternoon at Carrow Road, the Uruguayan returned to haunt them once more and fire the Reds ahead.

Crisp passing sent the ball skimming back and forth across the Carrow Road surface, pulling the opposition apart and carving holes in their formation.

Then the killer ball from Raheem Sterling, who collected play from Joe Allen and pivoted into space before sliding the ball into Johnson, who poked into Sahin.

Turner came across to dispossess him but the ball ricocheted into the path of Suarez, who cut inside before arrowing the ball back across the face of goal and into the bottom corner of John Ruddy's net.

For long spells of the game that followed, the Reds were irresistible.

Steven Gerrard was imperious, sweeping the ball from left to right, Allen was industrious picking up the pieces and Sahin floated forward, forcing the ball through tiny gaps in the Norwich defence.

Wisdom and Johnson bombed down both flanks to aid Suso and Sterling, who were full of trickery and ambition.

Suarez was clearly felled inside the penalty area on 22 minutes by a sharp elbow to the shoulder from Leon Barnett but Mike Jones waved away all appeals.

Norwich threatened when Simeon Jackson lashed the ball over the bar with a left-footed volley after Steve Morison nodded it back into his path.

Suso then fed Suarez, who clipped a superb pass into the path of Gerrard. The skipper met the ball with his head but Ruddy was out well to push his effort away.

Suarez was sent through on goal once more but he side-footed wide when he really should have slotted. However, seconds later the Uruguayan stole play from Michael Turner, nutmegged him and then sent the ball curling past Ruddy with a fine right-footed effort.

After the restart, the Reds were fortunate to maintain their two-goal lead when Andrew Surman smashed the ball towards goal but Robert Snodgrass deflected his effort over the bar as he tried to turn it home.

At the other end, the Reds responded in style. Suarez slalomed down the right and at the second time of asking, slipped a pass into Sahin, who rolled the ball home from yards out.

Minutes later, Suarez got his hat-trick.

Sterling started the move that finished with Sahin slotting the ball into the Uruguayan, who took a touch to compose himself before calmly curling past Ruddy.

On the hour-mark, Reina beat a Russell Martin effort out into the path of Morison, who fired into the bottom corner to make it 4-1.

But the Reds refused to sit back and Gerrard clinched their fifth after fine work from Sterling down the right flank before substitute Grant Holt whipped the ball past Reina to make it 5-2.

P/S : Good job lads. :)

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