Hojbjerg is a good closing player, someone who can calm the game down at 60-70 mins. I’d start Skipp then replace later on.
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Hojbjerg is a good closing player, someone who can calm the game down at 60-70 mins. I’d start Skipp then replace later on.
I think if this is thew case we go with Kulu and Rodrigo and either Skipp or Hjojberg.
Probably go with the below then Hojbjerg for Skipp late on to see the game out.
Vicario
Porro Romero VDV Udogie
Skipp Bentancur Kulusevski
Johnson Richarlison Werner
In a few weeks we should have Maddison, Bissouma, Sarr, Son, Solomon back which is important.
Thats still a very good team, having Romero and VDV back would also be huge and put less pressure on Skipp. Im excited about this game!
You do remember how confident we all were before the Chavs game, yeh?
Lets not get cocky and just get the job done.
I have faith that between them Bentancur & Kulu can knit things together nicely enough..... So long as PEH or Skipp can supplement them with legs and energy we should be good in that dept.
.......Werner will prove valuable here cos we don't have to worry about taking Kulu off the wing leaving us a bit thin.
Why do people not know Davies is injured???!!!
It will be Dragusin and VDV or Royal and VDV.
Romero not far away either.
I hope it’s Dragusin and VDV and Romero gets some training in before he comes back in.
There is also the rumour Solomon could be back or close to back. He is decentish and far more impactful than Bryan Gil, Werner and Solomon should be good to cover the left wing.
He'll be back soon either way.....
There's finally light at the end of the tunnel......
Davies, GLC, Sarr & Veliz still a concern, but most (if not all) of the others should be back over the next few weeks.
I Agree PEH is better coming on but he is also simply better all round than Skipp.
So starting Skipp just so you can bring PEH on doesn't make sense.
Timo is hitting the back of the net too… I have foreseen it.
The issue you have with PEH is when he plays full games his level tends to drop as the game goes on, he is best closing the game out and for that he needs to be on later, his better performances come as a sub at least from when I have watched him.
I agree though right now starting with Skipp is like playing with 10.5 men
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Vicario2
Porro3
Dragusin4
VDV5
Udogie6
Hojbjerg7
Bentancur8
Kulusevski9
Johnson10
Richarlison11
Wernerlineup code
[lineup] Vicario Porro Dragusin VDV Udogie Hojbjerg Bentancur Kulusevski Johnson Richarlison Werner [/lineup]
Pretty strong lineup considering our injuries. Man Utd are shite, if Brighton, Palace and Bournemouth can go up there and smash them at home there's absolutely no reason to think that we can't. They did have some decent chances against us in the reverse fixture but we are more settled as a team now and their problem remains they have no one to put the ball in the net with Rashford well off the boil again and Hojlund a complete waste of money. I'll be really disappointed if we can't at least avoid a defeat here.
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Vicario2
Porro3
Romero4
VDV5
Destiny6
Bentancur7
PEH8
Deki9
Johnson10
Richy11
Wernerlineup code
[lineup] Vicario Porro Romero VDV Destiny Bentancur PEH Deki Johnson Richy Werner [/lineup]
Dragu comes on about 60min to protect VDV hammy.
But then they went and got a 3-2 win at home to Villa after being 0-2 down.
You never know what Man Utd will show up.
Hojbjerg playing that position is the last thing I will do, too error prone to play as CDM, we need a more capable player to play there.
Bentancur plays there and PEH plays 8.