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Will take a point tomorrow, Liverpool are hitting some form and Suarez is going to cause some mayhem with our young defence. Benteke vs Skrtel / Benteke vs Agger should be good to watch.

We need to build our attack around Benteke, players who will compliment his holding play and vice versa. Of course its a lot more than holding play with him, I just had to modify his stats on FIFA to make it more realistic.

Weimann I think has shown himself to be a good role model, to young kids who want to be Premier League players. He's hungry, takes his chance when the manager puts him in to the side and doesn't throw a strop if not picked. Seems to understand the manager is building a squad and wants to be part of it.

Seems like all of our younger lads are in this mindframe and not just Weimann, good to see they understand Lambert's way, really hope Weimann keeps his form as hes always shown potential.

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And remember the numbers will probably drop still, with the likes of Dunne leaving. If we stick with the current formation we could do with another solid center back with some experience and also a big defensive midfielder. Hopefully Bennett comes back from injury and hits Lowton-type form and we won't need too many new players.

Before last night I thought he was on indefinite leave judging by his growing collection of Instagram holiday snaps, but if he was injured I'm all for Lambert trying to get the best out of him, because at his best he'd be one of our best players.

If Lambo can do this, and can fit him into the team, then stick with him - if not, then sell him, either way I like many others thought he was a good signing when we got him, just hasn't turned out like we thought he would.

Sounds like Given was poor apart from a few saves, definitely need to stick with Guzan, and we definitely need Vlaar back.

Benteke is by far our best player, and to be honest all of Lambert's signings have worked out well (or at least none of them have been dire). I hope this continues in the January window, and I hope to god we go to Wembley because it would be a massive lift for all the lads and all us fans.

Very happy that Weimann got a brace.

Lets take this into the weekend now!

THERES ONLY ONE PAUL LAMBERT

WE'RE GOING TO WEMBLEY, WE'RE GOING TO WEMBLEY

**** hell

According to the beeb we had 17 shots in that half - if we play like this goals will come.

(Possibly at both ends.)

Formation could work better if we had Vlaar back though (in regards to defence)

I actually think we need to put Guzan on, can see Given costing us a goal from a corner

BANGGGG !

FFS.. Sounds as if Given is sabotaging us on purpose

http://pic.twitter.com/5sBfzyKZ Big respect for this Norwich Fan!

This is the kind of stuff that needs publicity rather than the constant negativity coming out from the media at the minute.

Forget resting players, we need to go for this, we have Plop away on Saturday which is going to be a very tough game - winning tonight could spur on the lads to get a point on the weekend, and continuing our cup run will boost their confidence dramatically.

Also think Lambert will want to get a win back at his old gaff so really cannot see him resting and switching the side around.

2-1 Villa

Half-time team talk:

Pick yourselves up and go again

I think I wrote it in this or some other topic that he might not been chosen to the squad against arsenal due rain and wet pitch since his ankle has been acting up lately. It could take only one slip from him and his ankle could get injured again.

This makes a great deal of sense to be honest, especially as he was shown on ESPN going into the dressing room in his suit before the match, with the rest of the squad - which I'm sure he wouldn't of if he wasn't in the squad at all to begin with?

They also said on ESPN that the team sheet was given to them late on a scrap piece of paper or something like that, so maybe Bent was meant to be in the team, but the weather looked bad so they said we won't take the risk.

Makes sense to me!

I thought it was strange that they showed him going into the dressing room before the game on ESPN, if he wasn't in the team. I think he's definitely going in January and to be honest with how we've been set out this season he isn't really of any use. Yes he is a proven goal scorer but only in the right moments, we can't facilitate his style of play right now, were having to graft and that's something Bent doesn't do.

If we can get £10m+ for him I'd be happy, no doubt he will move on and continue to score goals.

We need to stick with Lambert, relegation for us looks inevitable and has done for a few years, if we go down we have to stick with him and create some stability - sacking managers every year is just going to make things worse.

Ireland hasn't been bad at all this season and he really should be in our starting 11, as previously stated it seems that Lambert has somewhat alienated himself from our senior players.

Maybe relegation would work for us if we can't compete at Premiership level, our players aren't going to improve if we can't win a game.

If we lose the next four games, which looks incredibly likely, we are going to be in some serious shit come January. We aren't better than the lower level premiership teams, its now proven, and the big boys are about to make things get even worse,

Due to my previous 'scouting' , I think its safe to say that Saturdays performance was no fluke. Great touch, good hold up play and passing, as well as being able to take opportunities to score.

I don't think he's going to score 20 goals a season but if he can continue to link up with Bent like the glimmer we saw, then I think they will have a fair few between them.

That run forward up the wing was epic, all hail Captain Vlaar!

TEKKERSSSSSSSSS