Four of our injured players are reckoned to be okay for Saturday - Senderos, AJ, SA and the Pog. Wow, three forwards. Can't see SA getting a place and it's gone all quiet on the AJ front but I suspect he will replace Ruiz and Jol will go for a 'conservative' 4-4-2 format. The remaining dilema is Hughes or Senderos? I'd give Aaron my vote based on his performance against Stoke and the confidence he passes on to Brede. So my line up is - --------Schwarzer Kelly Hughes Hangeland Riise ------Murphy Etuhu Dembele----------Dempsey ----------AJ Pog
a mouthwatering line up! Agree about Hughes. I get the jitters every time Senderos goes near the ball.
--------Schwarzer Kelly Hughes Hangeland Riise ----------- Etuhu Dembele Murphy Dempsey ----------AJ Pog for me -same really !
I like the line up 58. Not sure Jol will start with AJ though, I can see Ruiz starting with the option of AJ getting some action later on. With AJ being so injury prone a slow return may be advisable. Going to be a truly tasty fixture, BZ playing against us and the fact that we mauled them at our place. What a brilliant time to kick start our run it and get our away record improving. Having moved to Sussex now, I miss games like this, not being local seems wrong
I think you've got the team right, including Hughes over Senderos. Playing Ruiz then bringing on AJ makes sense. Three points look achievable for us. It's a pity that I cannot get to match, so will look forward to the postings here. C O Y W !!
I'd take Senderos over Hughes these days, unless the big Swiss polyglot isn't 100%. Same lineup as Cottager58, minus Hughes.
Yeah senderos has proven himself to be a stronger choice than hughes this season. Also agree that Ruiz should start in a 3 with dembele and demps just off the pog. That gives us the options of duff, AJ, Frei and Davies from the bench, not too bad really.
Think the same formation as against Stoke. Senderos probably in place of Hughes although he played well against Stoke.
I'd play Duff rather than Ruiz and Hughes instead of Senderos. Given that Jol played Frei against Chelsea in the league after he'd performed well against them in the Carling Cup, I can see him starting with AJ for the same reason if he's fit enough. But, to be honest, you never really know with Big Mart. Aside from Schwarzer, Hangeland, Murphy, Dempsey and Dembele, who always play when fit, he could pick pretty much anyone!
Count me in for the Senderos party. Although I've often sung Baird's praises as a midfielder, I agree that this is a game for Etuhu to partner Murphy in midfield. I'd like to see the 4-2-3-1, in which case Dempsey, Dembele and Ruiz virtually pick themselves (with Pog in front of them, I think). If it's a different formation, then others - Duff, Davies, AJ - may come into the reckoning. Kasami had a cracking game for the development squad this week, apparently, with Jol watching. Just a thought.
Although not a great fan of Senderos, iIwould like to see him in this one as it could be a bit of a rough and tumble game
Tiddly bit of gossip. Apparently during the QPR break away, there was a bust up between Hill and Cisse - H head butting C and breaking his own nose. Cisse is out of the game anyway but the aftermath could have a bearing in that the dressing room is now split into two camps and there is a lot of unease. Hughes meanwhile is valiantly trying to keep it under wraps. Of course they may have been on one of those team building courses - 'Motivating for a Rumble'
By rights we should be keeping all the players in a winning team for the next game if fit. But.... You'd think with a hat-trick in the home game against QPR that if he is fit Andrew Johnson would play. But if not maybe Jol will keep Pogrebnyak up front with Dempsey and Dembele behind him. Maybe Murphy, Etuhu and Baird in midfield. Senderos and Hangeland, Riise and Kelly. If not I'd go with the 442 others have said if AJ is match fit. With both Hughes and Zamora in their camp, I would think they have a good knowledge of Fulhams strengths and frailties and should be favorites, so I'd take a draw as being a good result, but it would be nice to do the double.
Have you noticed how much quieter the QPR fans are this time round? I seem to recall a lot more of them on our board last time calling the odds about what they were going to do to us. Although some of their fans were friendly and good value and are always welcome, others were less so. I think I prefer things this way.
[ Having moved to Sussex now, I miss games like this, not being local seems wrong[/QUOTE] Its only sussex its not cornwall, surely its only 1hour 30 mis max.
4-3-3, same as vs Stoke. Senderos in. Gecov or Kasami in for Duff to shore up the midfield alongside Murphy and Dembele.
Agreed, with the match so close you'd think they'd be gobbing off something rotten like they were last time. I also prefer it this way.
QPR supporters are probably genuinely concerned. Hughes have been there for a few games now, they got a few players and seems the initial boost has already gone. We should go all guns blazing and get something out of it. Also like Lawro's unfounded predictions. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/17106280 Don't ask me why I keep reading them!
