OK folks line drawn and time to move on. As Tom Dan and myself have all lost on our last match threads I think the baton falls to DTLW for Saturday? In the meantime what do we do team wise. I watched the extended highlights on Sky and we competely dominated but were very poor defensively when Villa countered. What do we do to shore things up? MP has limited options with Boruc, Victor, Morgan and Clyne all probably out. Think I'd go with Gazza Chambers Fonte Lovren Shaw Davis Cork Jrod JWP Adam Rickie Subs Cropper Maya Jos Fox Reed Dani Gallagher A very weak bench and particuilarly so in midfield. Thoughts
After his cross which led to Dani's goal last night I think we should play Fonte on the wing! Seriously though, if you look at the lineup Lambie has posted it compares very favourably to what we used for most of last season, even when we were doing well. Chambers played for our first three games this season and did well, and Cork and Davis ought to be Ok. Jack will want to do well after not playing particularly well last night. Having said that I have a very bad feeling about this game.
Me Dan Joe Lamballana Mikey Chilco CBK Fran DTLW Gay Bacon Strips SecondStain Subs: Fatletiss, Modern life is rubbish, Number 1 Jasper, Qwerty, Tomw19 and Khal Piego.
Fullback? I can give it a go, but I can't promise I won't keep playing it across the goal to Joe just to see if he's any good under pressure.
CBK's temperment is a concern, imo. Maybe leave him on the bench and play Jasper in the holding role.
By implication that leaves me as the creative linkup CM. Yeah, I could do that, at least I could 40 years ago!
With all the injuries we might be forced to go full crazy mode and play Osvaldo Rodriguez and Lambert from the start. Hopefully Morgan is back in.
I seriously hope we don't go three up front against City. It could get pretty nasty if we do. Have to hope that Schneiderlin is fit, I think someone said he was only left out last night as a precaution. If so, I would play; Gazza Chambers Fonte Lovren Shaw Morgan Cork JWP Davis JRod Rickie Even so, I can't really see anything but a big city win. They are in scintillating form ATM.
Seems almost impossible to predict the team for this, or even say who we'd like to play. Worst case scenario Boruc, SKD, Morgan, Vic, Clyne, Fonte, Lallana, Gaston, Guly, Fox all out. We'd probably have to go with. Gazza Shaw Lovren Yoshida Chambers Cork Davis JWP Lambert JRod Osvaldo Which is way too lightweight and too attacking team. Not sure what else we could do about that though? Even just having Morgan back for Saturday would make a hige difference I think. Fingers crossed.
If I score I will take my top off and run round the pitch...that should guarantee that no one gives me the ball.
Good idea. Also suggesting swapping shirts just before we lunch an attack should confuse their defence.
