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Think you're allowed 2 keepers if they both play rush goalie
Except he played Jesus in that game.
Pep also has hundreds of £millions in subs to choose from.
Why would Sessegnon start ahead of Lamela? At least you don't want Ndombele to start
Chelsea - 3 CB, 2 FB - FAIL
Wolves - 3 CB, 2 FB : FAIL
Norwich - 3CB, 1 FB : FAIL
Burnley - 5CB : FAIL
Interested to see what mess of a setup we will field tomorrow. My guess is
Lloris
Foyth - Sanchez - Dier - Toby - Jan - Tanganga
Winks
<gap>
<bigger gap>
<huge gap>
<gaping hole>
Lo Celso
Bergjwin - Alli Moura
Foyth - Sanchez - Dier - Toby - Jan - Tanganga
Winks
<gap>
<bigger gap>
<huge gap>
<gaping hole>
Lo Celso
Bergjwin - Alli Moura
Such a fake news way of presenting it.
Norwich; Vert & Serge were played as FB.
Burnley: Vert & Tanganga were played as FB/WBs.
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OK, since we are asking CBs to play out of position, Maybe Jose can try Sanchez, DIer or Toby out as FBs tomorrow.?
Maybe its time to recall Danny Rose from loan!!!
Most of our depth Is clearly at CB isn't it. Why are people surprised to see us utilise rotation options not just in defence but throughout the team by packing them in too relieve a bit of fatigue?
1 natural RB, a natural LB who got ruled out the other day, a potential backup LB in Sessegnon in and out of fitness, a youth Lb in Cirkin wearing a protective boot, a knackered Winks, a nonchalant Tanguy, a crocked Sissoko, a sold Wanyama, a 19 year old Skipp who played 2 hours solid a couple of days before, Dele flat out minutes wise despite a lack of apparent form, Lucas and Bergwijn saying they feel close to getting injured, Lamela being able to only muster 20 minutes here, 30 minutes there and doing so with no training before games, Sonny and Kane ruled out for the foreseeable and then look our CBs.... so much depth that even in times of injury crisis we don't need Foyth to make the bench and are oblivious when he's actually out injured.
We need to be so careful and streetwise in how to manage the creative ones. It really pisses me off when supporters take cheap shots at our circumstances. Really sad that the club and its fans seem to be losing that bond.
Toby, Davinson, Japhet, Dier and Jan all seem fit and able....more depth twice over than any other area of our squad so please don't be surprised to see if we have apparently gone 'defensive' during such occasions, it's really tiresome trying to explain what people should know and see.
Although you're clearly being childish....
- Vert has a history of LB appearances for both us & Belgium.
- For that matter, Toby has too (See regularly for Belgium).
- Dier has played RB for us in his early days (wouldn't want to see it now though)
- Tanganga played RB (& LB) for us previously and got raving reviews.
Davies is suddenly injured & Serge got a rare (pressumably necessary) rest.
Perfectly reasonable; in fact I think it more than likely that playing 3CBs vs Burnley was an an attempt to take a little weight off of the FBs knowing that Burnley would mostly attack down the flanks or over the top.
Meh. Not worth the bother.
It's almost as if we aren't going through an injury crisis at the moment and that our only natural LB was ruled out, that Aurier didn't need some kind of rest and that other areas of our squad that aren't defensive aren't depleted isn't it Airfixx?
A-fuckin-men!!!!
It would be pretty sad if most of our depth was at CB because we leak goals for fun. Our most depth is at winger but having Kane (because we have to use a winger at forward) and son both hurt does not help that.
This is if we are actually counting depth as decent players.
I count current depth as fit players, able to play. Sessegnon hasn't been able to, Lamela as well, Son can't, Lucas gets flogged due to this as does Dele and Kane can barely bend down and tie his shoelaces. Our current depth based on those who can complete 90 minutes sits within our CB area, where we have Toby, Davinson, Jan, Eric and Juan who can play. There's not a single area of our squad that has five fit players like we do at CB, hence the defensive looking starting XI's, hence the lack of goals and ability to keep the ball up in the opposing areas, hence the greater strain on the CB's we use.
They aint grest but they are fit and that during times of an injury crisis matters more than many care to consider.
people were willing to put up with shit to watch but winning football for a bit. Shit to watch losing football = far fewer takers.
Get to 60 mins at 0-0 and they’ll start panicking, we have nothing left to play for this season so let’s have a go and see how the chips land
But we won’t get to 60 mins at 0-0 with our dogshit defence, so pointless even trying to visualise that outcome. We are conceding mate guaranteed.