Schalke retweeted Dejan's picture of Michel Bastos and himself. Also, Schalke just posted a picture of Uchida and Maya in a bar together - says Uchida is looking forward to playing against his best friend.
I'll be roaming the streets of Southampton tonight with a collection bucket. Not for Nicola, just something I do on Wednesday's.
SCHALKE: Hildebrand; Uchida, Ayhan, Höwedes, Fuchs; Goretzka, Jones; Barnetta, Draxler, Bastos; Szalai.
SAINTS: K. Davis; Chambers, Lovren, Hooiveld, Shaw; S. Davis, Wanyama; Isgrove, Rodriguez, Puncheon; Lambert. BENCH: Gazzaniga, Boruc, Clyne, Fonte, Turnbull, Fox, Cork, Schneiderlin, Ward-Prowse, Lallana, Mayuka.
K. Davis, fair enough. Hooiveld perhaps fair enough. Chambers though? The lad needs to be tested and the game counts for nothing in the grand scheme of things.
I know that. I'm just saying the likes of Draxler and Huntelaar are quality players and the defence could get the run around.
pretty **** starting lineup, only 5 would go into my best XI. Look forward to seeing how Chambers gets on against some quality widemen, Think we will seriously struggle for creativity given that no one starting or on the bench is really a creative midfielder, lallana possibly even then it's Lambert who will be doing almost all the creating and he needs to be getting on the end of it. Ramirez is going to be so crucial for our season. I hope to see some real effort and tactical fluency, individual mistakes are fine as long there is the right intention. We'll probably be outplayed but don't really care.