Carling Cup -Forest (A)

Says he can play there but his favoured position is in an advanced role. Too young to have a defined role yet anyway.

 

hes more a box to box

 

Elliott
Simpson Saylor Colo/Perch Raylor
Tiote
Cabaye
Ober Guti
Ba Ameobi

Tiote, Ba and Ameobi to come off for HBA Sami and Marv. I'm not sure we should be having wholesale changes at the back with perch, elliott and fergy being thrown on. It's a risky game to experiment and Ba/Tiote need the match time.

 

elliot
perch saylor colo raylor
--------smith
marveaux gosling guthrie jonas
shola

stick smith in let him sit infront of the back 4 like he did for many of games in the championship.
gosling surley has to play, he played very well in the 6-0 vs norwich, give guthrie some play time stick perch in the back 4, and start marveaux

 

WOuldn't feel to confident with that back four.

 

Impossible to actually predict a team though so I'd just say the following:

- give Colo a rest as he played the last cup game, possibly Perch-Taylor in case we need him in the league
- Gosling and Guthrie should play
- Ben Arfa to get a half (hopefully)
- Elliot probably to play
- keep some first teamers like Simpson/Raylor, Jonas etc

 

Whens Willo due back

 

About a month I think.

 

Play the usual mix of experience/youth with HBA getting 20 mins at the end to make an impact and get a bit of match fitness.

Elliot
Raylor Kadar Taylor Ferguson
Marv Abeid Gosling Sammy
Ba Lovenkrands

HBA for lovenkrands around 70 min mark and switch to 4-4-1-1
Got Best, Cabaye, Jonas, Obertan, Colo etc to bring on if going badly.

On a side note... since I saw Guthries name there, saw him walking out of Villa park with his suitcases and a mate or something as fans coaches were leaving, would he not be getting team coach back? He waved at us when we were knocking on window

 

--------------------Harper
Simpson--------Saylor--------- Perch----- Raylor

Marveaux ----------- Guthrie ---- HBA------------Ferguson
---------------------Loven ---- Shola

Bench: Tiote, Cabaye, Best, Guti, Krul, Sammy

Think we need some experience in the team cos Cup games are always difficult even against lower league opposition. Remember against Scunny we were struggling even with the likes of Cabaye, Saylor, Colo, Best and Ba. So yeah I'd like to see some youngsters in the team but I think that Pardew will maybe play an even stronger team against the florists...

 

If we play Perch, can we not leave him back down there?

 

he has family near the midlands i think so maybe seeing them.

 

damn wish got tickets to see the game

 

elliot
raylor saylor kadar fergy
sammy gosling abeid marveaux (needs more playing time before bburn where ide hope he's start)
benny (although i dont know how recovered he really is this is under the assumption he's now 100% recovered
ba

 

We definately should be looking at Ferguson at LB to see if he does a decent job, he may well be first choice until Jan

 

Not with Santon in the frame for Blackburn.

 

rather Kadar LB and play Fergie LW for cup games

 

Don't see the need to make major changes and rest players. It's very early in the season. After Forest their is a full 3 day break until Rovers. We then have a whole week break until Wolves, and after that more than 2 weeks until our next match. Resting key players is needless, they're professional athletes and this is not a demanding run of fixtures.

I'd go:

Krul
Simpson
Taylor, S
Colo
Taylor,R (Santon to come on if fit)
Marveaux
Gosling
Cabaye (Guthrie to come on if we've got a couple of goal lead)
Jonas
Ba
Best (HBA to come on for the last half hour)

Perch & Kadar in defense = disaster. Both hugely lacking match practice (and ability in Perch's case). I would also like to see Ferguson get some time if Santon isn't fit.

 

Would love to see Marveux and Gosling get full games

 

I'd play Gosling over Tiote as we need Tiote for PL matches and he'd only pick up a pointless yellow at Forest, putting him closer to his first one game ban of the season.