PL: Aston Villa (H), Sun 3rd October 14:00

[Beech]

N'Dombele has to perform.

He has no excuses, the 10 means he has no defensive responsibilities.

I'll wager now that he does a couple of nice turns, the odd nice pass and then a whole lot of nothing.

Hope I'm wrong, If he, Kane and Son play well we'll win this game.

 

[Airfixx]

N'Dombele has to perform.

He has no excuses, the 10 means he has no defensive responsibilities.

Ordinarily this wouldn't be true, but yeh.... Ndombele.

 

[Tomo]

I would assume or hope then a 4231 rather than 433.

Lloris
Royal Romero Dier Regulion
Skipp Hojbjerg
Lucas Ndombele Son
Kane

Otherwise its the below which means Ndombele has defensive duties.

Lloris
Royal Romero Dier Regulion
Skipp Hojbjerg Ndombele
Lucas Kane Son

 

[LEGO Boy]

Now that's more like it!

 

[boone]

This team should easily dispatch Villa, of course they probably won’t.

 

[Son Spurs]

Good team. All about effort though. We know Skipp will give us that, lets hope it's infectious and we don't get more half assed tracking back from Hojbjerg and Ndombele like last week.

 

[Distaste for scouse]

I'd swap out Ndom -lazy-bastard for Lo Celso and Dier for Rodon, but otherwise its probably our strongest 11.

Love to know how Ndombele got a game after his performance in the NLD

 

[SchmoodSpur]

That's better. Now, put some effort in.

 

[Eli]

.
Danny Ings tipped to have Aston Villa field day against 'awful' Tottenham
forgot he played for them…..:nunofacepalm:

 

[hiatus]

Welp, called it after Thursday. If it is a 4-2-3-1 then either Romero/Royal need to do a good deal of progression to get the ball forward to the front 4 or Ndombele will need to drop deep to pick the ball up.

Otherwise we will rely on Hojbjerg and Skipp to move the ball forward, something they haven't been able to do yet this season.

Really wanted to see GLC in the 10 and move Ndombele back next to Skipp and rest Hojbjerg. Alas.

 

[tedesco23]

Also hoping 4-2-3-1: Hojbjerg and Skipp make so much sense in front of the CBs, gives Ndombele more freedom in attack.

 

[SpurFromOz]

I would assume or hope then a 4231 rather than 433.

Lloris
Royal Romero Dier Regulion
Skipp Hojbjerg
Lucas Ndombele Son
Kane

Otherwise its

Lloris
Royal Romero Dier Regulion
Skipp Hojbjerg Ndombele
Lucas Kane Son

Better.

 

[cretinousgoat]

A win today or good night Nuno, thanks for coming.

 

[hiatus]

This team should easily dispatch Villa, of course they probably won’t.

This is a good summary of the last two years, except replace Villa with basically any mid to bottom table team.

 

[cretinousgoat]

I would assume or hope then a 4231 rather than 433.

Lloris
Royal Romero Dier Regulion
Skipp Hojbjerg
Lucas Ndombele Son
Kane

Otherwise its the below which means Ndombele has defensive duties.

Lloris
Royal Romero Dier Regulion
Skipp Hojbjerg Ndombele
Lucas Kane Son

 

[The Mercurial No.10]

Should any of them decide they can be fucked. Midfield need to be at it today.

Interested to see how young Jacob Ramsey does for Villa, watched him on loan and he looks like he has potential.

 

[Tomo]

And here is what we are up against

 

[Stag]

I'd swap out Ndom -lazy-bastard for Lo Celso and Dier for Rodon, but otherwise its probably our strongest 11.

Love to know how Ndombele got a game after his performance in the NLD

100% - agree on all of this

 

[Football Chap]

That's the lineup we should have played last week so can't really complain

 

[Doc]

I'd swap out Ndom -lazy-bastard for Lo Celso and Dier for Rodon, but otherwise its probably our strongest 11.

Love to know how Ndombele got a game after his performance in the NLD

Nuno probably recognizes that it was a mistake to instruct Ndombele to hang around the forward line and hoover up the pickings after Dier hoofs it long. I could be wrong.