Good evening.
Time for us to focus our thoughts on what is a massive, massive game. The list of those we failed to replace, the injured and the retired is well documented. The victory against Maribor was welcome of course but needs to be appreciated in the context of – this was an unremarkable Maribor.
That said, it will create a feel good factor. That’s quite rightly how football works.
But how brave will the boss be against the Champions? My suspicion is that the answer is ‘not too brave.’ I don’t believe he’ll play Hugo and I don’t believe he’ll drop Walker and certainly not for Naughton. I believe that showing confidence in players cuts both ways and ‘that’ goal in the Naughton/Lloris fiasco shouldn’t be used as stick to beat either men with.
Carroll has to start. To dare is to naffin’ well do and I think he’s earned this. Against City I believe we need to play with a 3 in the midfield given the resources. Thud and Sandro isn’t enough. It will end up with Mr Beastly doing himself a mischief again. But more so it’s a case of we must be creative and the two Toms between them will give us a fighting chance.
Bale on the left, Azza Lemon on the right and for me it’s Adebayor to start. Do you drop your hat-trick man? The brave do. On the strength of the Europa game Ade is back or at least very close to being back in business. We miss Moussa horribly and between Carroll and Ade we can at least attempt to mend and make do.
I predict a 3-2 win.
Lloris
Caulker Dawson Vertongen
Lennon Carroll Sandro Thudd Bale
Adebayor
defoe
To Dare is to Do
You’ve set it up as a 3-5-1-1 but at Citeh away it’s going to be more like 5-4-1 or at worst 5-5-0…..worth a go though :daumen:
Get Craig Levin in 1-10-0, it’s the future-BTW, how crap must Hutton be to be left out of the Scotland squad?
On a scale of one to ten? Very.
saucy!
That said, it will create a feel good factor. That’s quite rightly how football works. And life.
Love the parish notice board, creative and did you nearly leave out Jan the coffee shop owner? Yea the Frenchman for me also to start now…11 million quid….com on…..
Price has nothing to do with winning games. We don’t want any soft goals given away.
The price of the players at Stamford Fridge are not cheap and seemed to be doing ok. Money talks. What soft goals has Frenchman given away? For the record I believe he will be gone in January if he’s not given EPL games, maybe to the lot down the road.
Not sure an all out attack approach would be wise. Thinking back to last season when we got battered with mod and krankie in the middle. Fingers crossed sandro is fit. Suppose we have to play hundredstone… He looked decent against haribo the other night but cant see him being effective enough tomorrow. Agree with ade starting. This might be one of those games where he really really tries hard. Coys!!!
No way he will bench Defoe after a hat trick. I would continue with 4/4/2. According to AVB the way our boys were playing it doesn’t differ from his 4/2/3/1 that much. We will get eaten alive with only one striker. Start Carroll along with whichever of Thudd or Sandro is healthy.
While I prefer ( still)!Lloris to Friedel, our 12 million pound man has been making some very basic errors. Not confidence building.
Bet that batting the ball right in front of you is not well received in other leagues besides BPL.
Don’t see a win here. Would be happy with 1-1.
Carroll won’t start, playing Maribor is one thing, playing Man City is something totally different. Neither will Lloris.