Big C wrote:
Also Fred, Carroll was superb yesterday. Lots of energy and he frightened the shit out of the Hull back 4 especially 2nd half. He interchanged with Valencia at times to give the little guy a run through the middle too. He canot be dropped on current form.

He's a very good striker and I have no issue with him playing.  But I did like the energy that S and V brought to Liverpool and City and am not sure that we would have got the same performances or results had Carroll been playing.  You can't drop Carroll on current form, but Sakho deserves to walk straight back into the side because he is our top scorer and has a better strike rate than Carroll.  Nice problem for Sam to face.