Yes.
I think Son is a complete shadow of himself. I'd say he's almost as ineffective as Dele at the moment.
Richarlison is injured. Kulu, we don't know. So it's entirely possible we start with Kane, Son and Gil. That 3 will struggle against a mean Woolwich defence.
That will be compounded by not having Bentancur in the middle and possibly not even having Bissouma. We could well have PEH and Skipp in the middle. Skipp will probably get booked early or sent off as that seems to be his objective every game. I'm anti religion, but I'm praying we don't start Royal, but maybe Conte will feel he offers some defensive qualities Doherty doesn't.
Then there's the actual defence. I'm shuddering just thinking about it right now. Which clown can clown the most? Or will it be Lloris? Any one/all of them can and do conspire to put chances on a plate, especially when the balls in our box - a style the scum like to play. They're not gonna put deep crosses in for Dier to head them away. They're going to play the ball into the box and get players in there. Will it be Lloris fumbling, will it be Dier brain farting? Will it be Romero lunging?
Throw in the fairly obvious lack of enthusiasm from the home fans at the moment. It feels like it's going to be easy as pie Arse to come and take the points and their fans will have a good day out.
And for all that, I really can't decide if I want to give up my Sunday for it.
Yea... hard to argue with most you are saying.
But even though those wins have not been that convincing nor against big sides, last two games won with score of 5:0 but even more so - surge of youngsters Sarr and Gil have lifted the spirits of fanbase to some extent. Also most of our expected starting players got the game off, so will have 11 days of rest to be as sharp as possible.
If we start with Son, I see close to 0 chances of us winning. He does not score or assist, but even worse - he cannot dribble or run past League One players or 37yo Young. He can't press, he can't pass. Those two (deflected) moments against Palace were nice, but Arsescum will play with intensity and all Son would do is to give ball away cheaply or try hopeless shots from far out.
We 100% have to go with 3-5-2 for that. Or at very extreme - start with Gil-Kane-Kulu upfront.
With current comments we can dream/hope that Bentancur, Bissouma and Kulusevski could be back.
So I would like to see -
-----------------Lloris---------------
---Romero---Dier---Davies-----
Doherty-----Bissouma--Perisic
------Bentancur-----PEH---------
-------Kulu-------Kane-------------
With squad set like this, I believe we could actually have some control and push them.
Only difference here that I'd be fine with would be Lenglet for Davies. I prefer Davies cause Lenglet is so slow on feet, Arsescum fast and dynamic players would just run around him... though he'd be better on the ball.
And another one - if Conte believes either Sarr or Skipp would be ready for DM role. Bissouma have not set the world on fire so far for us, but has shown glimpses. I am afraid that youngsters might not do well.
Mrs Perryman like the Easter bunny and Santa....Karma does not exist.Take a good look around at planet earth. Some of the best are living in hell the most vile like Kings.
