Tuesday. Pickford or Mannone? Kone to start? How cautious will SA play this one? City on their day are superb, but are also prone to a few errors and De Bruyne is out. Nee idea where the off topic logo came from.
I would go for Pickford, but I think Sam will go for Mannone. Kone is match fit as he's been playing all season, so I think he will be going straight in. --------------- Mannone -------------- ----- Kone - Brown - O'Shea ------ Jones ------------------------------ PVA ------------ Catts - M'Vila ------------ -- Johnson -- Lens -- Borini -- ---------------- Defoe ------------------
My only fear is that Kone has come from the French league which is a million miles away the scenario of the EPL and City may not be the team to make his debut against. Keep the English combo for starting with Kirchoff and maybe Kone in our back pocket if we are ever in danger.. Hopefully Villa will give ManC a good hard cup tie game and they will be suitably weary as the night wears on.
This is a one for wingbacks for me. -------------Pickford-------------- ------Oshea---Kone---Brown------ Yedlin--------------------------Pva -----------Catts---Mvila----------- --------------Johnson------------- -----------Fletcher--Defoe--------- Looking forward to it. Feels an age since I was at a night game
Got to give N'Doye a go at some point in this game, Watmore for the last 20 minutes to run against tired legs, we will pick up points somewhere in the next four fixtures so why not on Tuesday.
Kaboul should be back so Pickford Kone -- O'Shea -- Kaboul ???/Jones ------------------------------ PVA Catts -------- M'Vila ???/AJ Defoe-----N'Doye
PSG are pretty handy like. He'll have played against Zlatan many times. Not saying he'll piss it but he's had to defended against many good forward.
4 at the back for me, I don't think 3 works. If Kone is here now he has a week of training so I might be tempted to put him in. ...................Pickford................... Jones...Kone........Jos.........PVA .................Catts..Mvilla.............. Watmore......Lens.............Borini .......................Defoe................... Lots of options on the bench.
