Can see us struggling to get out of this group tbh, expect nothing in the away games to the French and Dutch, should get 6 points from the other crud, which leaves us no room for error in the other 2 home games.
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It's a big who cares from me for this one.
Does the named squad allow us to send a team of just kids to Rennes? Plus Gollini and Doherty.
Given the current mess I'd keep the whole senior squad at home to work on tactics and avoid further injury.
Rely on the home games for qualifying for the next round, Redknapp style.
Given the current mess I'd keep the whole senior squad at home to work on tactics and avoid further injury.
Rely on the home games for qualifying for the next round, Redknapp style.
Brazil is on red list in France ...10 days quarantine for Messi. Neymar and De Maria in theory. Don’t think they played at the emend. Interesting to see PSG midweek team
Sacre Bleu! We maybe in ze merde!
It's a cunning plan, my lord to have the match stopped and prevent a loss!!
Clearly not a Boris fan....!
Dead leg for Dier is great news, thought it could be ligaments or even a slight break by the look of him hobbling off.
Fuck sake it’s hard to put together a decent side while also rotating.
Maybe:
Gollini
Doherty Tanganga Rodon Davies Reggie
Ndombele Winks Dele
Moura Gil
Yikes I hate that team but don’t really want to see Kane, Hojbjerg, Skipp, start considering their fitness and international exertions.
Also with Tanganga suspended it’s one of Emerson or Doherty versus Chelsea which is not ideal.
Fuck sake it’s hard to put together a decent side while also rotating.
Maybe:
Gollini
Doherty Tanganga Rodon Davies Reggie
Ndombele Winks Dele
Moura Gil
Yikes I hate that team but don’t really want to see Kane, Hojbjerg, Skipp, start considering their fitness and international exertions.
Also with Tanganga suspended it’s one of Emerson or Doherty versus Chelsea which is not ideal.
And no backup striker to be seen!! Ridiculous we didn't sign one. I wonder if Scarlett will play.
Geez some people are just miserable.Can see us struggling to get out of this group tbh, expect nothing in the away games to the French and Dutch, should get 6 points from the other crud, which leaves us no room for error in the other 2 home games.
I was worried about knee ligaments, so yes good news is he'll recover and unlikely they'll be any long term effects. It can still take a few weeks to recover from a bad dead leg though, and the way he was hobbling, and the fact he left on crutches suggests it was a bad-ish one.
Do you disagree? Somehow, despite being the third tier European competition, and us being seeded as second best in the entire thing, this group looks harder to me than last year Europa draw.
Maybe it's just because last year I was full of naive optimism, and felt that the squad had less gaping holes, but short of us putting out basically our first XI I just cannot see us getting much from these games.
We seem to have so little in attacking reserve now that there is no way a second string is going to get enough goals.
Logically speaking we can assume the following will def play
Gollini
Doherty Tanganga (banned for Chelsea) XXXXX Davies
Ndombele Winks XXXXX
Gil XXXXXXX XXXXXX
so that basically leaves 3 positions to fill while also trying to keep people fresh for Sunday.
is it a possibility that the coach in Croatia is preparing Dav and Romero to start together on Sunday?
either way - with no Dier just yet, and the 2 South Americans away it makes Rodon almost a guaranteed starter on Thursday.
Midfield is tricky, I could see us going with Niall John in there? Hojbjerg is overplayed already but we'll need someone willing to play a forward pass. if we Presume at the weekend we'll have the Dele/Skipp/Hojbjerg combo it's likely to be Dele of the 3 that can handle another game considering he has no international exertions?
Up Top with Gil..... Fuck a Duck!
Scarlett and if Bergwijn recovers on time I guess him, leaving Kane and Lucas to start vs Chelsea and Pray Son might make a miraculous recovery.
so I'm going
Gollini
Doherty Tanganga Rodon Davies
Dele Ndombele Winks
Bergwijn Scarlett Gil
A Point will do.
Gollini
Doherty Tanganga (banned for Chelsea) XXXXX Davies
Ndombele Winks XXXXX
Gil XXXXXXX XXXXXX
so that basically leaves 3 positions to fill while also trying to keep people fresh for Sunday.
is it a possibility that the coach in Croatia is preparing Dav and Romero to start together on Sunday?
either way - with no Dier just yet, and the 2 South Americans away it makes Rodon almost a guaranteed starter on Thursday.
Midfield is tricky, I could see us going with Niall John in there? Hojbjerg is overplayed already but we'll need someone willing to play a forward pass. if we Presume at the weekend we'll have the Dele/Skipp/Hojbjerg combo it's likely to be Dele of the 3 that can handle another game considering he has no international exertions?
Up Top with Gil..... Fuck a Duck!
Scarlett and if Bergwijn recovers on time I guess him, leaving Kane and Lucas to start vs Chelsea and Pray Son might make a miraculous recovery.
so I'm going
Gollini
Doherty Tanganga Rodon Davies
Dele Ndombele Winks
Bergwijn Scarlett Gil
A Point will do.
To me your response seemed very reactive to Saturday’s extremely poor performance.
Unless we play only youth players, expecting nothing from Rennes or vitesse away is pessimistic.
Obviously we will be playing for a 0-0
No forward passes, no decent forwards, just defend and back to home
No forward passes, no decent forwards, just defend and back to home
Just like to add a big couldn't give a flying fuck of my own...
OK, Bill isn't organising the forum's long weekend abroad anymore.