Interesting line up - I assume MP expects us to have most of the ball, with the width coming from the full backs pushing up. Davis is really good at retaining posession, and keeping the pressure on a suspect defence that`ll hopefully break - JRod has probably been sacrificed as his pace is nullified against a team that`ll be parking the bus.
Agreed, think our attacking formation will look like: ---------------------Boruc---------------------------- --------------Fonte------------Lovren--------------- ---------------------Wanyama----------------------- Clyne-------Davis-------------Schneiderlin------Shaw ---------------------Lallana--------------------------- ----------Oswaldo-----------Lambert----------------- Keep Palace penned in, bombard the box and get some long shots in from the MCs!
Pochettino: "We want to get our first home win today so we can congratulate our fans on their great support so far this season."
Pochettino: "We want to keep more possession than in the last game, so hopefully bringing in Steven Davis will allow us to do that."
If we play like we did against WHam we should win - opposition GKs can't have superhuman performances every time
That Speroni can be a bit of a character - strange shape for a footballer ! Being Argentinian, it`ll be interesting if he gets a warm greeting from MP and Osvaldo.
Very good quality, but beware anyone watching on there that it's about 30-45 seconds behind, so careful not to spoil anything for yourself looking elsewhere.
It's basically a 3-4-3 in attack. Lallana joins the front men, Shaw and Clyne play in line with Davis and Morgan, Lovren and Fonte move towards the flanks and Wanyama sits almost between them. Looked very narrow on paper, but perhaps not.
