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Having thoroughly out thought Gracia last Saturday by winning the tactical battle hands down, what has Potter got up his wizard’s sleeve for us this week? If you are Pellegrini, surely you assume an unchanged 3-4-3 and make your plans around that? Making sure West Ham don’t hit us on the break...

Best team so far.

I think we’ll see Potter’s 4-2-3-1 at some point but it doesn’t feel like the right time yet. When we eventually get that system, I’d expect to see more pace up front (Andone or Maupay), Bernardo at left back and Ali J back in the team.

Why? We know that Potter likes to change his formation but I’m assuming that he does not just switch for the sake of it? He only changed his formation four times last season after a win. Is there something about West Hams’s 4-2-3-1 that warrants us matching their system? I thought that our...