I think Long deserves a shout. All those goals flying in against sunderland and he wan't among them and you could see how upset he was to be taken off. He'll be raring to go. He either plays a blinder or knackers the Stoke defence leaving Mane free for the last 20 minutes to get his hat trick.
At the moment I prefer Long starting with Mane coming off the bench. Can see this being a tight game. Hopefully we'll edge it.
I think we'll edge it........by 3 goals. Pelle to score all of them as he's in my fantasy team. As long as we can keep Crouch under control during set pieces, I think we'll be too good defensively and will score goals at the other end. Long to start with Mane on later to really finish off their tired legs. We need to score earlier than last week though, so that Stoke are chasing the game and will give us space to get balls into their box
I'm looking forward to this, of course. I have been all week. But I can't help but feel that this won't be a great game to watch. Not that it'll matter though if we win. Same team for me. No obvious reason to change anything. There no-one in the Stoke midfield, or off Crouch, who concerns me enough to want us see Wanyama to come in and deal with.
Ward-Prowse is controlling the club's twitter account for the game, so he'll be leaving in the summer.
Crouch is such an underrated player - like Lambert technically far better than he is given the credit for.
You did ask for English corrections! Possibly Davis couldn't score to save his life, but would and should've!
