Watford (H) - Tues 24th Sept, 19:45 | EFL Cup | Pre-Match Thread

Match Result Prediction?

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Time to experiment with a few things we haven't tried in a while. Stones back as the lone DM, Foden false 9, Nunes starting?
 
Ortega,
Lewis, Stones, Akanji, Esbrand
Kova Nunes
Mcatee Foden Doku
Haaland (1st half) Grealish (2nd Half)

at a wild guess.
 
MarsLlama said:
Time to experiment with a few things we haven't tried in a while. Stones back as the lone DM, Foden false 9, Nunes starting?
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And who is going to play at CB then? Rico?

Pep won't risk any senior players who played most of the game yesterday. Possible exceptions for Gundo, Doku and Savinho: they may play 45 minutes or so.

Ortega

Rico
Stones
EDS
EDS/Wilson-Esbrand

Nunes
Nico/EDS
McAtee

Grealish (left)
 Foden
Doku/Savinho
 
IcriedwhenTueartleft said:
Tempted to just say sack this match off but knowing the club and Pep and our mentality, they will want to win. Hard to pick a team but Ortega will start, Stones and Foden need game time, Lewis can play, Nunes, Doku again (can't be any poorer than Sunday), McAtee...jeez...still 4 to go...4 youth players, Wilson-Esbrand, O'Reilly..and any other 2...job done
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Let's keep the home record intact then lose when we're drawn away to the Dippers/Arsenal/Spurs next round.
 
Are the kids playing on the same night? I can't seem to find the fixtures? I can see a fair few of em playing in this and 5 or 6 of the subs bench from yesterday. It'll be nice to witness a game of football after yesterday's none football event.
 
hello blues, word on the grapevine from inside sources is that Rodri is fine, nothing serious and will be back after the next Int'l break with Ake.. lovely news to start the week :))
 
alexmcity said:
And who is going to play at CB then? Rico?

Pep won't risk any senior players who played most of the game yesterday. Possible exceptions for Gundo, Doku and Savinho: they may play 45 minutes or so.

Ortega

Rico
Stones
EDS
EDS/Wilson-Esbrand

Nunes
Nico/EDS
McAtee

Grealish (left)
 Foden
Doku/Savinho
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It’s definitely possible that Pep goes with Simpson-Pusey next to either Dias or Akanji, maybe gives them a half each. It’s not ideal to play them twice in 50 hours but that doesn’t mean he won’t do it. And Stones may need the practice - he could be the closest thing we have to a DM for the rest of the season.
 
MarsLlama said:
It’s definitely possible that Pep goes with Simpson-Pusey next to either Dias or Akanji, maybe gives them a half each. It’s not ideal to play them twice in 50 hours but that doesn’t mean he won’t do it. And Stones may need the practice - he could be the closest thing we have to a DM for the rest of the season.
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Stones is not the closest thing to a DM in our squad, this myth needs to die. Thought Pep tried him there once: at Villa last season. Our team performance was the worst under Pep ever.

Stones can play well next to a DM but he doesn't complete enough passes to do what Pep requires from his DM, namely receiving the ball under pressure and complete many, many passes, about 80 per game or more. Stones is not that player. And he can't run as much as Kova or Gundo. Rodri covers 12-13 km per game, CBs cover about 8-9 km per game. It's another level in terms of running.

Given that Ake is injured, we are not likely to risk Dias and Akanji in the least important competition this season. Imo, of course. Would be completely pointless to risk them vs Watford.
 
The Lightbowne Cowboy said:
Are the kids playing on the same night? I can't seem to find the fixtures? I can see a fair few of em playing in this and 5 or 6 of the subs bench from yesterday. It'll be nice to witness a game of football after yesterday's none football event.
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No, their EFL Trophy game has been rescheduled. It's not that hard to find their fixtures though - https://www.mancity.com/fixtures/eds
 
Ortega
Lewis Stones Dias Wilson-Esbrand
O'Reilly Kovacic
Nunes McAtee Grealish
Foden

Ederson, Carson, Simpson-Pusey, Walker, Wright, Gundogan, Doku, Alfa-Ruprecht, Heskey
 
The Lightbowne Cowboy said:
Are the kids playing on the same night? I can't seem to find the fixtures? I can see a fair few of em playing in this and 5 or 6 of the subs bench from yesterday. It'll be nice to witness a game of football after yesterday's none football event.
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Sure someone will have replied already.
We asked for the Lincoln game to be moved - so I'm guessing we'll see plenty of EDS involvement Tuesday
 
MCFC1993 said:
-------------------Ortega
Lewis---Stones---Simpson-Pusey--Wilson-Esbrand
--------------------O'Reilly
---------Nunes-----------Mcatee
Foden----------Mubama-----------Grealish
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I don't think that's far off
Too soon to include any starters from Sunday. Wouldn't want to risk Kova when we have no other DM options if Rodders is out for several weeks (which is my best hope).
Foden and Grealish could do with minutes, but wouldn't be more than 60 given the competition we're playing in.
If Pep decides to sack it off completely who can blame him
 
WesthoughtonJohn said:
Sure someone will have replied already.
We asked for the Lincoln game to be moved - so I'm guessing we'll see plenty of EDS involvement Tuesday
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Yeah, I heard something similar. I'm trying to find the game and see what price the imps are, because if Peps going to be cherry picking our best kids then Lincoln might be worth a bet.
 
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