Team v Chelski

[spike472]

Same as today other than KN in if Chirches is injured. People will say rotate but we need stability. COYS

 

[We'llWinThePrem]

Lloris
Dier Fazio Vertonghen Davies
Lennon Mason Bentaleb Eriksen
Kane
Soldado

Vorm Kaboul Naughton Dembele Paulinho Chadli Lamela​

 

[tiger666]

Lloris Vorm Friedel
Naughton Dier Vlad Kaboul Verts Fazio Rose Davies​

 

[Ghost Hardware]

As much as I want to see the same team Poch has to take In to consideration player fitness. It takes a hell of a lot to put that much leg work in for 90 mins and we have to bring our a game on Wednesday. Played well today but you could tell that the quality dropped towards the end as players tired out.

 

[Larryjanta]

Same as today, but Naughton in for Vlad.

There is definitely a case to be made for dropping a forward and playing another CM but, you can't drop Kane, too important, and Bobby has just opened his account. For that reason, same team, let's fucking go for them

 

[robbiesavagehasbreasts]

Gomes

Corluka-King-Dawson-Ekotto

Lennon-Huddlestone-Modric-Bale

Defoe-Pavlyuchenko

 

[CornerPinDreamer]

Lloris
Vlad Fazio Verts Davies
Mason Bentaleb
Lennon Stambouli Eriksen
Kane​

Loved Soldado today but Stambouli might really be able to negate Fabregas.. they don;t work without him..

 

[JohannTHFC]

Can't go to the bridge with two strikers, I don't think Mason has the physicality to deal with Chelsea either. Those two changes but the rest of the team should remain the same.

 

[TimmyShee]

Nobody deserves to be dropped from today's side but if we don't get someone on Fabregas he will run the game. Paulinho for Soldado for me and I don't fancy Dier at RB vs Hazard so Naughton has to come in.

 

[thinktank]

Lloris

Vlad------Faz-----Verts----Davies

Lennon Mason Bentaleb Eriksen

Kane

Soldado
​

If all are fit, of course.

Start with that lot again.

 

[TimmyShee]

How did Sunderland line up? They seemed to frustrate them well.

 

[Syn_13]

I don't get the comments about dropping a striker. We only played with 1 striker today. Surely people must realise that Kane is being played as part of the attacking mid support for the man up top. It's exactly the position he should play, it totally suits him. As much as I think he's still good as a number 9, and is our best forward, the team and he himself would be less effective with up top.

The team should stay the same, as little change as possible. I think Naughton will be back to play RB, but otherwise I highly doubt MoPo is going to change anything.

 

[Yid-ol]

Lloris Vorm Friedel
Naughton Dier Vlad Kaboul Verts Fazio Rose Davies​

Isn't that too attacking? Don't we have some youth keepers we canthrow in also?!

 

[Reclamation Project]

Same as today other than KN in if Chirches is injured. People will say rotate but we need stability. COYS

It feels surprising to say but I hope Vlad is fit enough to play. His unpredictability seemed to give us a little more edge going forward up the right. Am sure Vlad enjoys the license to get forward more!

 

[Mr Pink]

Tricky IMO. I think you'd want to stick with the same team ideally but the physical demands have to be considered. Also Palace, which is eminently more winnable, have an extra day's rest this week before we face them on Saturday. These are important considerations.

We put in a huge effort today and surely the likes of Bentaleb have to be managed carefully having just come back in after a lengthy enough lay off.

Would be very disappointing to get beat on Wednesday to then follow it up with a tired performance against Palace which sees us drop points.

That said, we want to build on this. We set the standard today under Pochettino, there's absolutely no doubt about it. A lot of the big egos and senior ones not on the field and its important to reward good performance. But its also important to manage a busy schedule and look for the most effective approach to take points in each game.

In short, I have no idea who to pick yet. Need to think about this a bit more lol. But I'd definitely make minimal changes to the defense - we need to breed stability there.

 

[Wrenchy]

How did Sunderland line up? They seemed to frustrate them well.

Are you suggesting that we sign their whole team and start them?

 

[chrissivad]

How did Sunderland line up? They seemed to frustrate them well.

Sky have it as a 4-1-4-1
But this was at the Stadium of Light

At Home Chelsea have won every game in the league only conceding 3 goals... QPR (Austin) and Swansea (Terry og + Shelvey)

Cost has scored 7 out of the 15 goals scored at home, so will be a big miss for them

 

[Blake Griffin]

I don't get the comments about dropping a striker. We only played with 1 striker today. Surely people must realise that Kane is being played as part of the attacking mid support for the man up top. It's exactly the position he should play, it totally suits him. As much as I think he's still good as a number 9, and is our best forward, the team and he himself would be less effective with up top.

The team should stay the same, as little change as possible. I think Naughton will be back to play RB, but otherwise I highly doubt MoPo is going to change anything.

average position actually had kane ahead of soldado

 

[mpickard2087]

I'd put up the brick wall.

I think he will go with the same team, which although maybe deserved is risky as I'm not sure we will get that same level of energy and effort with such a quick turnaround.

 

[ShaunL84]

Fresh legs are needed for this game, we can't play the same way we did using the same players at the Bridge, we have a big squad full of internationals so let's utilize that.

Lloris

Chiriches
Fazio
Vertonghen
Davies

Capoue
Bentaleb

Chadli
Kane
Eriksen

Soldado