Match Day Thread Brentford vs Southampton 15:00 Saturday 4th February

So it's off to West London NOT on Saint Valentine's Day BUT hoping we'll massacre the Bees and we all know what hope does. Don't forget the
Saturday 4th February 2023 Brentford v Southampton 15:00
Referee: Darren Bond.
Assistants: Adrian Holmes, Matthew Wilkes.
Fourth official: Michael Salisbury.
VAR: Mike Dean.
Assistant VAR: James Mainwaring.
© SaintOsprey
Edit, correcting matchday date error, I was also completing my tax refund claim, I double checked that to be sure, to be sure.

 

Hopefully Nathy J ditches the back 5, It just doesn't work and conceding from it to always have to find our way back is soo counter - productive. I'd go with this

Bazunu;
Lyanco, DCC, Salisu, Perraud;
Lavia, Alcaraz;
Edozie, JWP, Orsic;
Adams.

KWP provably won't be fit for this, and Onuachu provably won't be ready sadly, so bench for him.

 

Hey, I think you might be ten days late .

 

Edited. Again!

 

Well spurted just checking you're paying attention.

 

Team I want to see but almost certainly won't happen:

Bazunu
Bree (assuming KWP is out) DCC Salisu Perraud
Lavia Alcaraz
JWP
Sulemana Onuachu Edozie

 

I'd be surprised if either of the deadline day buys will start but I hope they at least make the bench! You don't need much integration in the squad to be able to come off the bench and potentially make an impact up front.

 

We are away from home against a premier league side. So that means we will likely go with 5 at the back and no attacking potency. See: last night

 

I don't think Onuachu gets to England until Thursday so might be a bit late for him.

But on the basis of we cant get much worse going forward I'd want at least 1 of the new signings to start.

 

4 at the back please you numpty

 

I'm hoping for a truly experimental back six.

Vin

 

Nah, this calls for a back nine, with Bazunu in goal and Perraud up front. 2-0 Saints.

 

They're a good little team the Bees, but this is a chance for three points and a lift.

 

With the greatest respect, we could beat them as we are hard to beat.

 

This has five at the back written all over it and another 0-1 defeat.

 

5 at the back until we go 2-0 down, then he changes it to the back 4 and says after how he reacted and changed the system and how hard to beat we are....

 

Wolves, Bournemouth, West Ham and Everton all have tough games this weekend. Would be a good chance to join the pack with a win.

Tough game to call, Brentford are a cracking side but are prone to a bad game quite often. I'll go for 1-1 but wouldn't be surprised at any outcome.

 

Back 5 bad

In the words of Take That - Back 4 good

 

If we start with a back 5 then Brentford will go a couple up in the first 30 mins and we will switch and get one back but still lose 2-1

If we start with a back 4 I fancy us to win 2-0

 

But they did also say, What ever I did, whatever I said I didn't mean it.