Need to rotate some players and insure that we focus more on the league I think. 

Caballero 

zappa Cahill christensen Emerson 

loftus cheek Fabregas Barkley 

moses morata willian 

 

I’ll put money on CHO and Ampadu not getting a single minute. 

Hopefully....

 

Willy

 

Zappa

Cahill

Christensen 

Emerson

 

Cesc

Kova

RLC

 

Moses

Morata

CHO 

 

Need giroud for Burnley and pretty sure ampadu is injured for a couple of weeks.

 

 

I think Ampadu and Odoi are both injured, Sarri mentioned Odoi in his Man Utd press conference as having an injury.

I reckon we'll see

Kepa

Zappa Christensen Cahill Emerson

Kante Cesc RLC

Moses Morata Pedro

 

Kepa

Zappacosta  Cahill  Christensen  Emerson

Cesc

Kovacic      Loftus Cheek

Moses       Morata       Willian

A few players you'd think are nailed on for a start here: Cahill, Christensen, Emerson, Fabregas, Moses. I'd stick with Morata for this one; I'd certainly be more inclined to start Giroud away to Burnley on Sunday. 

I would be tempted to leave Hazard out of the squad entirely after his experiences against Man Utd. 

In Friday's press conference Sarri mentioned that Ampadu would be out a couple of weeks, whereas CHO should be back after a few days. He also said Barkley would be out a few days at the time, and of course he ended up coming on as sub on Saturday. So I'd say there is a chance CHO will Thursday's squad.

Give the players from the bench a start, keep the big guns on the bench just in case. Sarri rarely switches thing in the league, these games are ideal for heavy rotation.

Cabellero

zappacosta christiensen cahill Emerson

rlc fabregas Barkley

Moses pedro CHO 

Never going to happen, but that is what id like to see. 

Feel good to be in Europa and not Champions League, I would be pretty stressed if we had to play Champions League this season. This is needed to recover and use the next summer to bring in someone good like Icardi before Real Madrid snatches him.

On 20/10/2018 at 14:44, Munkworth said:

I’ll put money on CHO and Ampadu not getting a single minute. 

I believe Ampadu is still injured from international break, but it would not surprise me to see CHO not get on the pitch. Hopefully, we are both wrong because these are the types of matches both should be playing, if healthy.

I really miss the champion league...sorry that I don’t have a more constructive comment 

                         Kepa

Zappacosta  Cahill  Christensen  Emerson

                          Cesc

          Loftus Cheek     Barkley

        Moses       Morata       Pedro

 

That's what I reckon we might see. 

Won't hold my breath for Hudson-Odoi getting any minutes even though I think we could benefit from seeing someone else challenging for a place in the wide areas. 

Be great to see CHO start, but as others have said, don't really expect it 

We do need to rest some of the key players and give minutes to players who won't be involved in the Burnley game so I hope to see 90 minutes for both Morata and Willian.

 

Let's win this one and get the qualification done ASAP. I'd give Giroud a start, score a goal or two and break the drought.

2 hours ago, ForeverCarefree said:

                         Kepa

Zappacosta  Cahill  Christensen  Emerson

                          Cesc

          Loftus Cheek     Barkley

        Moses       Morata       Pedro

 

That's what I reckon we might see. 

Won't hold my breath for Hudson-Odoi getting any minutes even though I think we could benefit from seeing someone else challenging for a place in the wide areas. 

I’d prefer Giroud in this and save Morata. For me I would also save Pedro for the weekend and I’d play Willian. None of Cesc , RLC or Barkley can defend but what the heck. 

Edited October 24, 20187 yr by ozboy

9 minutes ago, ozboy said:

I’d prefer Giroud in this and save Morata. For me I would also save Pedro for the weekend and I’d play Willian. None of Cesc , RLC or Barkley can defend but what the heck. 

Morata's confidence is so shot to bit he needs every boost he can get. If that means getting a goal or two against lesser opposition then so be it but end of the day as useless as he's performing he's one of only strikers we've got so Sarri's got to try and coax some semblance of form out of him. 

Willian can stay as far away from the starting line up as possible as far as I'm concerned. He's had more chances to impress out of our attackers than anyone else having played more minutes than maybe even Hazard but he continues to put in poor performances. Get Pedro in there and get him back up to full match sharpness following his recent injury. 

A midfield three of RLC, Cesc and Barkley should be more than capable of overrunning BATE, if they're not up to the task then they can't complain about not being first choice. 

17 minutes ago, ozboy said:

I’d prefer Giroud in this and save Morata. For me I would also save Pedro for the weekend and I’d play Willian. None of Cesc , RLC or Barkley can defend but what the heck. 

Save Morata for what exactly?!! 

3 hours ago, ForeverCarefree said:

                         Kepa

Zappacosta  Cahill  Christensen  Emerson

                          Cesc

          Loftus Cheek     Barkley

        Moses       Morata       Pedro

 

That's what I reckon we might see. 

Won't hold my breath for Hudson-Odoi getting any minutes even though I think we could benefit from seeing someone else challenging for a place in the wide areas. 

This would be my chosen team, but with CHO in place of Pedro.

I don't get the impression he will start CHO either, but I would love the look of that starting 11 (as a second string) if we did.

 

Let's make it 3 of 3 in the Europe League.

I like Sarri a lot, but I'm still waiting for him to put some trust in youth. CHO must be played in this game.

That's the lineup I'd like to see:

------------- Willy --------------

Zappacosta - Cahill - Christensen - Emerson

------------ Fabregas ------------

--- Loftus-Cheek --- Barkley ---------

Moses ---- CHO ----- Pedro

 

With all the respect, but I don't want to watch Morata playing when our own talent isn't being used as a sub. Barkley is in good form, he should keep that going and I wouldn't mind seeing him in our starting lineup in the league as well.

COME ON CHELS!!!!!!!

You'd play a teenager as a central striker when his natural position is as a winger/wide attacker?  I know we all want to see him come through, but come on, be a bit sensible about it.  Has he EVER played central striker before?  Ever?

how about the tea lady in goal then ?

 

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