Can Joe Cole impress in his first Anfield appearance?...
After the superb news earlier in the week that star striker and adopted Spaniard Fernando Torres will remain at the club, unfortunately the number 9 will not be featuring tonight due to his very late on injury he picked up in Spain's win in the world cup final.
Other players who probably won't be utilised include misfit Philip Degen who has been told he can find a new club and out of place Javier Mascherano who has told Hodgson he wishes to leave the club. Despite this Hodgson remains adamant that he is treating the midfielder still as a Liverpool player so you never know, we may just see the Argentine.
With Pepe Reina, Dirk Kuyt and Ryan Babel recently back in training after their extended breaks we could probably see all three of those players within the 90minutes.
Hodgson has been keen to give some of the youngsters more of a chance too in these games so the likes of Kelly and Amoo may also get another chance to shine.
The first leg ended in a 2-0 victory for the Reds where young Frenchman David Ngog netted twice and seemed filled with confidence. Should he start tonight he will definitely fancy adding himself to the score sheet.
New signing Joe Cole and Steven Gerrard will also be good to keep an eye on should they start, despite a disappointing result against Borussia Moencengladbach the two England internationals linked up very well together and portrayed some exciting play.
I expect this to be another win for the lads tonight, don't expect it to be a huge margin but a comfortable progression to the next stage of the competition.
To end on, i received for once an email that was worth reading and wasn't trying to convince me to play online bingo today... Which was rather refreshing... Anyway, the football corner over at ITV have only gone and put my blog in their sidebar for the page that they are showing the game on tonight - Nice one!
I know a lot of you are computer fanatics and i also know a fair few of you have watched games online, so i urge you to pop on over to ITV and get discussing the game over there whilst your at it. Just follow this link.