No surprise, Mitroglou isn’t yet ready. Otherwise in a fairly brief lunchtime press conference Felix said that Richardson, Reither and Diarra are all back. And elsewhere Parker had already declared himself fit.
I’d love to see us set up to get an early goal (something we’ve not managed all season) and then have the confidence to push on and finish the game off. In reality though I suspect we’d revert to going deep and try to defend the lead, which apart from doing the old heart no good at all, could prove disastrous. Instead, and I feel sure this is how Felix will see it, we will probably have a starting line-up that will (hopefully) be solid and keep it tight.
Whatever, we know the threat of the running of Long up front and the likelihood of Huddlestone and Livermore being his providers, so we‘ll need to be extra strong in the middle and cut off the supply.
So, the team to start I’d go for is:
………………Stockdale……………
……..Heitinga…Hangeland…..Amorebieta…
.Reither………………………………Richardson…
………………….Diarra……….
……Parker…………………..Sidwell…….
……………………..Holtby………
………………..Hugo…………………..
I’d love to see us set up to get an early goal (something we’ve not managed all season) and then have the confidence to push on and finish the game off. In reality though I suspect we’d revert to going deep and try to defend the lead, which apart from doing the old heart no good at all, could prove disastrous. Instead, and I feel sure this is how Felix will see it, we will probably have a starting line-up that will (hopefully) be solid and keep it tight.
Whatever, we know the threat of the running of Long up front and the likelihood of Huddlestone and Livermore being his providers, so we‘ll need to be extra strong in the middle and cut off the supply.
So, the team to start I’d go for is:
………………Stockdale……………
……..Heitinga…Hangeland…..Amorebieta…
.Reither………………………………Richardson…
………………….Diarra……….
……Parker…………………..Sidwell…….
……………………..Holtby………
………………..Hugo…………………..
