We have a week to recover. 

Us supporters, I mean.

So long to wait for league return only to follow it up one week later by missing league action again to play the vermin in the league cup...

Pulisic will look great, score and then get injured. 

7 minutes ago, Munkworth said:

Pulisic will look great, score by running into the 6-yard box and tumbling over, and then get injured. 

FTFY

I'm really burning with ambition to win the European Conference Cup, the only trophy that keeps eluding us. So we should aim for 6th spot or so and continue our crappy run!

Based on the club world cup and Mason very likely to be out I would go with.

 

Kepa

 

Christensen

Chalobah

Rudiger

 

Dave

Jorginho 

Saul

CHO

 

Ziyech

Lukaku 

Pulisic 

 

Silva and Mendy should be given time off to rest after international fixtures and lots of games.

Pulisic loves playing against palace so I would play him and team him down the left with CHO for overlap.  Rest Kante and Kova who played a lot in CWC.

Would be nice to win this one that we should win, without any difficulty for once.

On 13/02/2022 at 20:08, axman2526 said:

Based on the club world cup and Mason very likely to be out I would go with.

 

Kepa

 

Christensen

Chalobah

Rudiger

 

Dave

Jorginho 

Saul

CHO

 

Ziyech

Lukaku 

Pulisic 

 

Silva and Mendy should be given time off to rest after international fixtures and lots of games.

Pulisic loves playing against palace so I would play him and team him down the left with CHO for overlap.  Rest Kante and Kova who played a lot in CWC.

Top 4 is not completely safe. We really need to win this one. Rotating too much could hurt us.

1 hour ago, KonaKai Blue said:

Top 4 is not completely safe. We really need to win this one. Rotating too much could hurt us.

Aye I know top 4 still needs to be worked at. Am just looking at the rest of the season rather than this one game. Seems the ideal time to give a short break to Mendy and Silva, and I also think think break after the slog in the heat would be good for Kante and Kova.

Huge game coming up after this, Lille. Need to be putting them to the sword ahead of the return leg.

It’s quite hard to pick the midfield. Kante is only good for 1 in 3 games, Jorginho is under a cloud all season and if we push kova too much he will likely do his hammy again. On the other hand without kova or Kante there will be no control in the midfield. Also Dave can’t play every game at wing back. Maybe Reece can get 30-40 minutes. 

3 hours ago, ozboy said:

It’s quite hard to pick the midfield. Kante is only good for 1 in 3 games, Jorginho is under a cloud all season and if we push kova too much he will likely do his hammy again. On the other hand without kova or Kante there will be no control in the midfield. Also Dave can’t play every game at wing back. Maybe Reece can get 30-40 minutes. 

Time to give Saul some more time imo. Reece is making good progress so Dave just has to go a little longer. If he needs a rest then move CHO to the right and play Alonso left.

Jorginho should start the game, it's basically a must if we want to control the game from minute 0.

At least it's not an early kickoff

Edited February 15, 20224 yr by chiefBlueCFC

1 hour ago, chiefBlueCFC said:

At least it's not an early kickoff

I’ve only just noticed this is a Saturday 3pm game!

35 minutes ago, Munkworth said:

I’ve only just noticed this is a Saturday 3pm game!

Ridiculous. Saturday 3pm, what will the FA think of next...

36 minutes ago, Valerie said:

Ridiculous. Saturday 3pm, what will the FA think of next...

The only downside is I have to watch it on a dodgy stream 

41 minutes ago, Munkworth said:

The only downside is I have to watch it on a dodgy stream 

[Looking up the tv schedule in blind panic] 

Oh thank f**k, it's being shown on my sports channel. Phew, you had me worried there. For the Club World Cup matches (we won, in case you missed it) I had to resort to streams for the first time in ages, and was reminded how much I hate that.

The game kicks off at 3pm this Saturday you say…

9 hours ago, axman2526 said:

Time to give Saul some more time imo. Reece is making good progress so Dave just has to go a little longer. If he needs a rest then move CHO to the right and play Alonso left.

If Saul is supposedly on his way out and back to AM at the end of the season, I guess its a way to showcase himself for other teams.  

3 points, don't care about the scoreline, just 3 points.  

52 minutes ago, CFCCAN said:

If Saul is supposedly on his way out and back to AM at the end of the season, I guess its a way to showcase himself for other teams.  

Indeed. That or play a blinder for the rest of the season and convince TT to keep him.

Gallegher can play?

We need to continue the momentum of winning to ease into the next final

2 hours ago, Mário César said:

Gallegher can play?

No, ineligible due to terms of his loan.