Team V Peterborough

FA cup time. Danny Simpson and Wes Morgan could make their comebacks as could Robert Huth. No injuries or suspension so its a full squad to choose from. So here is what i would go with

Hamer

Amartey
Dragovic
Maguire
Fuchs

Gray
Iborra
Silva
Barnes

Iheanacho
Okazaki

Subs- Jakupovic, Benalouane, King, Mahrez, Albrighton, Vardy, Ulloa

 

Jakupovic

Simpson
Dragovic
Huth
Fuchs

Mahrez
Iborra
Silva
Gray

Iheanacho
Vardy

 

Full strength for me. We've never won the FA cup and all the big teams are looking at consolidating top four and champions league. We won't go down or make top four so we should go all out for it. Villa came unstuck against Posh in round 3 with a weakened team, so we shouldn't take them lightly.

 

Kasper

Amartey
Dragovic
Benalouane
Fuchs

Gray
Silva
Iborra
Musa

Slimani
Ihenacho

 

Might just as well start with 10 as have Beny in there.

 

Seems a good game to get the old guard back up to speed.

Hamer
Simpson - Huth - Morgan - Fuchs
Iborra - Silva
Thomas - Barnes - Gray
Iheanacho​

 

Sounds harsh - I think he’s been alright actually aside from the odd dodgy pass.

 

Red card walking. Think he has been lucky that his red mist moments haven't connected.

 

Claude Puel has said Huth and Simpson are being considered for selection but Wes Morgan isnt

 

Would like to see Amartey a CB - if only we had another RB...

 

This is starting to have parallels with the title winning season now - shipping goals and then change the defence slightly and now it’s 5 clean sheets in 5...

In terms of the league, surely it can’t be changed

 

Only Maguire remains of our back 4 who started this season - our defense has gone from Simpson-Morgan-Huth-Fuchs to Amartey-Dragovic-Maguire-Chilwell and the average age has dropped from 32.25 to 23.5.

This is Puel's MO - over the last decade, no manager in Europe has given more opportunities to young players than him.

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I didn’t want him at all... but boy am I starting to warm to him

 

This is how we are lining up.

Hamer,
Simpson,
Maguire,
Benalouane,
Fuchs (c),
Silva,
Iborra,
Diabaté,
Gray,
Barnes,
Iheanacho.
Subs: Jakupović, Chilwell, Huth, Albrighton, Ndidi, Mahrez, Vardy.

 

1-0 Diabate
2-0 Iheanacho

 

3-0 Iheanacho

The gulf in quality is huge

 

3-0 Iheanacho

More action and quality in the first 30 mins of this match than most of both legs v Fleetwood.

 

And great for Iheanacho to look like the player we signed

 

Where was this performance in either Fleetwood game

Seems like the squad players playing today are fired up and looking for starting places on Wednesday.

I guess this is why we are having such a quiet transfer window

 

Perfect answer to the experts criticism of our team selection. Why we didn't put in this sort of performance against Fleetwood I don't know.