Everyone is fit and available going into Sundays game with West Ham. So here is what I would go with Schmeichel Simpson Huth Morgan Fuchs Mahrez Kante Drinkwater Albrighton Vardy Okazaki Subs- Schwarzer, Wasilewski, Amartey, King, Schlupp, Gray, Ulloa
Ok, the same team for me too, but if Mahrez is ****e again then bring Amartey on after 55 mins & then Schlupp after 70 for Albrighton & then Ulloa after 80 for Okazaki. 1-1 btw.
A draw wouldnt be the worst result in the world but we would have to wait 24 hours to find out exactly how good it is IMO Tottenham have to close the gap this week or the title race is over.
West Ham should be more adventurous than most recent teams we've encountered, they probably won't attempt to shackle Mahrez as much as other teams have, which hopefully will give him more of a chance to have some influence on the game. Win this one and I reckon we'll be just about there, I've just got a nasty feeling about Sunday though.
West Ham will have two men on him at all times - I would take advantage of that by switching Mahrez and Albrighton so Mahrez would face Cresswell and Antonio who I rate highly. If West Ham play like they did against Arsenal, we have a good chance of winning - we are very good at dealing with crosses so unfortunately can see them playing with someone like Sako up front to run the lines and get free kicks for Payet.
I know ill get slated for this but I wouldn't start with Okazaki,last few games hes not been very convincing and seems to struggle to stay on his feet,start with Ulloa and if need be replace him with Okazaki for the last 30 mins or so,its just my opinion and I think we would get more goals from set pieces and corners with ulloas height.i also have a bad feeling about wet spam they were very good at the weekend v arseole,and I think we could be lucky to get a draw. 2-2
Everyone is entitled to their opinion, so no slating from me. Okazaki has taken the burden of doing a lot of chasing down from Vardy, allowing JV to make more damaging sprints to rattle the defence and create/score. Leo has a different game completely. I would stick with the same team.
Okazaki for an hour to give them the run around works so why change it. Winston Reid is much more comfortable on the ball than Kaboul who only tried to kick lumps out of Okazaki so he would be much more comfortable facing Ulloa rather than a striker who doesn't sit still.
I agree ... Shinji should have had a penalty on Sunday and his pace and movement are intregal to our attacking play ... he played his part on Sunday not least because his constant movement drained the energy from the Sunderland defenec which took its toll later on for both Kaboul and van Arnholt ... they fell short on sprints at the end of a marathon ...
This is what Heskey used to do with us - directly challenge their main defenders and get the crap kicked out of him allowing the likes of Cottee to score the goals. Ulloa does his share as well - MotD have a really good analysis of the Sunderland game that highlight him http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b077s6pl
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There were times in the second half where i was getting really frustrated with Okazaki, felt he was making too many mistakes. Saying that though, i'd still start him as he does the chasing so Vards has that extra yard of pace when he needs it. When he goes over, even if its totally legitimate, he doesn't half make a meal of it, its no surprise we didn't get a peno at Sunderland, even i thought dive.
Getting a bit bored having to select this team now, how many games is it now we've had the same line-up?
Am watching the West Ham v Man Utd game and West Ham leave a lot of gaps that the likes of Vardy and Mahrez can exploit - am feeling more positive that we can get a result.
