Pretty much picks itself:
Verbruggen
Hinshelwood Van Hecke Dunk Estupinan
Baleba Gomez/Ayari
Minteh Joao Pedro Mitoma
Welbeck
Don't know who will start alongside Carlos in midfield, but pretty sure both Gomez and Ayari will feature at some point. I know some want Tasker to play RB...
Bart 8 -- very composed, claimed some high balls
Lamptey 6 -- had a really good game up until that moment. His first yellow was clear although a little unfortunate as Gordon shoved him. We can have more complaints about the second one although he gave Taylor the option just five minutes after...
Massive European military coordination needed immediately
European troops inside Ukraine soon to come
Huge ramping up of weaponry to go straight to Ukraine
Isolate Farage, Reform, GB News and all that lot who are dong the fascist Putin's work for him in the UK
Quite a few returning from injuries, but with two away game starts in the space of c66 hours, we will need to rotate the playing personnel, particularly the forwards. We might see Minteh and Rutter for United, but suspect they won't be involved tonight. Hinshelwood might finally be available and...
Thrown the league away, clueless Lego Head:
-- set us up so predictable, no adaptability, flexibility ...
-- ... opposition managers just need to adapt in game and soon enough they'll find a way to exploit this predictability
-- we've got a massive squad, and all he does is whinge about injuries...
Useless. Get rid.
-- he's a dinosaur. Got outsmarted by a bright young manager
-- he might have a good record but that's in the past, he's now tactically inept, they cut through us so easily
-- he plays the team so compactly and centrally that it was just the easiest thing to set up against and...
That was something else, particularly second half, The Amex was absolutely rocking
Verbruggen 8 -- some cracking saves first half, great on the ball
Veltman 7 -- solid as ever
JPVH 9 -- enjoyed his scrap with the beast, and was immense
Igor 9.5 -- utterly brilliant today, and has been near...
Bart 7 -- good distribution
Veltman 7 -- so solid this season, nicked the ball impressively several times
JPvH 7 -- kept things tight, good on the ball
Dunk 6 -- generally solid
Hinshelwood 6 -- intelligent positioning and use of the ball
Baleba 8.5 MotM -- outrageous talent
Ayari 7 -- kept...
Steele 7 -- not much to do, only saw the goal live and don't think I'll blame him for it; passing utterly stunning
Veltman 7 -- pretty solid
JPvH 9 -- Van Heckenbauer absolutely bossed it
Dunk 7 -- solid
Hinshelwood 6 -- probably could have done better for the goal, but intelligent...
Seems to be a bit of a thing we're targeting this window -- or even longer than that (eg, Baleba, Barco). Having failed with KDH in the past two windows, we have got Minteh, Rutter, Gruda, ACD, Gomez(?), and we're also in for MOR and Boscagli.
Can't be a coincidence.
Edit: helpful augmentations
Shame we can't give Danny, Julio and Joao Pedro 60 minutes each. Instead one will probably play the full 90.
-------------------------- Bart -------------------------
Lamptey ------- Webster -------- Dunk --------- Igor
---------------- Gilmour --------- Baleba -------------
Gross...
Bart 7 -- one amazing late save from Salah, wasn't very good for their disallowed goal, gave the ball away a few times too many but Liverpool's intensity imposed that on us
Veltman 5 -- made to look rather ordinary
JPvH 8 -- some good stuff both defensively and on the ball
Dunk 7 -- solid stuff...
Here's hoping 2024 works better than 2023 for the wonderful talent, commitment and hard work of our restauranters.
Will get things going with two recent visits:
Fourth & Church
Went for lunch on Friday. It's outrageous value. 2 courses for £20, 3 courses for £24. They'll be doing this offer...
What an absolutely bonkers game of football. Utterly thrilling.
Some stunning performances in there from a fair few players. Shame about the loss of control at the end. Ditto with Dunk's booking, meaning RDZ is going to have to weave some different magic against in-form West Ham, especially as...
Obviously getting in early, and the pre-match press conference might throw a spanner into the following suggestion, but I'd like to see something like the following for Thursday:
-------------------------- Bart -----------------------
Veltman ----- Dunk -------- Igor ----- Hinshelwood...