Saturday 22 March 2014 | Cardiff City Stadium | Kick-off 15:00
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Match preview
Brendan Rodgers insists that Liverpool cannot rest on past glories when his Barclays Premier League title hopefuls visit Cardiff City on Saturday.
Liverpool were dominant in beating Manchester United 3-0 at Old Trafford on Sunday, a result that left
Rodgers' side four points behind leaders Chelsea with a match in hand.
With a trip to relegation-threatened Cardiff on the horizon, Rodgers is concentrating his players' minds on the task in hand.
"The focus has been purely on Cardiff City, that's been our world this week," Rodgers said. "We had a wonderful performance at Old Trafford, but there hasn't been any talk of the title. We're just enjoying how we're playing.
"The run-in for us is the next game. We have tough games right through, starting with a very tough game against Cardiff. We can speak about the run-in when it's over."
Rodgers' men come into the match as the Barclays Premier League's form side, having won all five of their past league outings, scoring 18 goals in the process. The strike partnership of Daniel Sturridge and Luis Suarez has a combined total of 43 league goals this season, including two for the Uruguayan in a 3-1 win at Anfield in the reverse fixture in December.
That proved to be Malky Mackay's penultimate game in charge of Cardiff, with Ole Gunnar Solskjaer taking over the reins in January. The change of manager has hardly brought a change of fortunes, however, the Welsh outfit picking up seven points from the Norwegian's 10 league matches in charge.
Cardiff sit second from bottom in the table, three points from safety, although Solskjaer's side did secure three points in their last outing at the Cardiff City Stadium, Steven Caulker scoring twice in a 3-1 win over Fulham. Solskjaer, meanwhile, has called on his players to earn cult status by avoiding the drop.
"Our fans love their heroes out there on the pitch," he said. "I've said I'm going to work and earn their support, and they can see we have a team that is going to do our best to make them proud.
"We need heroes now definitely. It is eight games to go and I'm sure one or two heroes will step forward."
For Liverpool, defender Mamadou Sakho returned to the first-team squad on Sunday for the first time since suffering a hamstring problem in December and has declared himself fit and available for selection.
Cardiff City (from): Lewis, Marshall, Amondarain, Caulker, Connolly, Hudson, John, Fabio, McNaughton, Taylor, Theophile-Catherine, Turner, Cowie, Daehli, Eikrem, Gunnarsson, Kim, Medel, Mutch, Noone, Whittingham, Bellamy, Berget, Campbell, Jones, Smith, Zaha.
Liverpool (from): Jones, Mignolet, Agger, Cissokho, Coates, Enrique, Flanagan, Johnson, Kelly, Sakho, Skrtel, Toure, Alberto, Allen, Gerrard, Henderson, Ibe, Lucas, Aspas, Coutinho, Moses, Sterling, Sturridge, Suarez.
Match Appointments
Referee: Neil Swarbrick. Assistants: R West, J Flynn. Fourth Official: L Collins.