Newcastle (A) 15Jul - 6pm KO.

[Kaner Owns Woolwich]

Serge starts

 

[Fattynomates]

 

[tedesco23]

Hope that means 442 again....

 

[AlabamaSpur]

Hmm... hoping the 4-4-2 remains in place

 

[StripiestPilot]

I hope Aurier is mentally in the right frame of mind, big call to give him the start. I don’t think I could focus on my work if my brother just got murdered but like Mou said, everyone deals with these things in different ways. Maybe for him playing will allow him to forget about it for 90 minutes.

 

[Gatsby]

Saint Maximin and Almiron start for Newcastle, also Bentaleb.

 

[Totti]

Amazing strength of character from Aurier.

Exact same line up as Woolwich - wonder if it's the 442.

 

[Kaner Owns Woolwich]

ASM and Almiron starting

 

[SouthStand Billy]

Fair play to Aurier for declaring himself fit to play..

 

[ArcspacE]

442, baby!

Also - fuck Bruce - lying cunt about their injuries

 

[Doom Funk]

Yeah full credit to Aurier

Extremely brave decision , let's hope he is in the right frame of mind

 

[TheRealTI]

I hope Aurier is mentally in the right frame of mind, big call to give him the start. I don’t think I could focus on my work if my brother just got murdered but like Mou said, everyone deals with these things in different ways. Maybe for him playing will allow him to forget about it for 90 minutes.

Gotta trust the player in a situation like this, I am sure (hope) it was entirely Serge's call.

 

[StripiestPilot]

Both Yedlin and Bentaleb will be wanting to prove a point, hopefully we take this game seriously.

This seem to have some juju on us, season after season we can never seem to take 6 points off them.

 

[spursmalc]

I am surprised Aurier started but understand he wants to do something rather than sit at home or in France and think about it. Same team that mostly played the whole match only 3 days ago. Hope they are fit enough and do not start flagging in 2nd half.

 

[Igula]

Ugh

I guess its the easy call to go back with the same line-up that won the last game but it seemed like a good opportunity to bring in some new players and try some new things out.

The win was what was most important but I didn't think we played all that well against Woolwich and certainly not good enough that a few changes couldn't have been made.

Oh well I hated this line-up when announced on the weekend and we won so hopefully that happens again.

 

[Ciro]

Beautiful from Aurier. And for anybody worried that he might be out of focus, I think the situation will only make him more focused than usual.

 

[greenmanRD]

Don't really like naming an unchanged side when this will be our 5th game in like 13 days or whatever.

 

[snowkarl]

Mou's new 442

I like it. Think it suits our squad a lot better than 433 to be honest. Only question mark for me is if GLC, in the long run, is viable as a CM in this formation.

 

[Bill Madrid]

Serge starts

Be great if he scores and can dedicate his goal to his brother

 

[Gazzapen]

Don't think you great but thumbs up for.effort Serge. May you score in his honour.