Crystal Palace (A) - Sun 14th Dec, 14:00 | PL | Pre-Match Thread

[denTTony]

Pep giving up on rotation ?

Shame about Doku, assume an injury as not on bench. At least he didnt replace him with no.26

 

[MCFC1993]

Cherki on the left presumably.

I would imagine we'll overload the right and let O'Reilly give us width on the left.

 

[PragueBlue]

Surely foden left and cherki right

I think that is most likely.

 

[MCFC1993]

Pep giving up on rotation ?

Shame about Doku, assume an injury as not on bench. At least he didnt replace him with no.26

Who can he rotate?
The rest have been nowhere near good enough.

 

[ninjamonkey]

Doku is a massive loss. We lose so much threat without him. Much harder to see a regular path to goal without him.

Weird that marmoush doesn't come in for him especially when we are about to lose him after this game. Bench looks severely lacking, take out marmoush and ait-nouri after today and we're bare bones stuff.

Time for a few passengers to step up and make their mark.

 

[eastmanc]

Is Jezza injured? Anyway come on you Dolly Blues.

 

[balotelli's back pocket]

Pretty damning for Marmoush that he still can't get a start in Doku's absence in the last game before he leaves for AFCON.

I'm hoping Reijnders plays just off Haaland, to give us two runners through the middle for Foden and Cherki to find.

 

[citytill1die84]

Pep giving up on rotation ?

Shame about Doku, assume an injury as not on bench. At least he didnt replace him with no.26

Why rotate a team in form? Also who would u like to be left out and replaced with?

 

[MCFC1993]

Surely foden left and cherki right

Can't see it being Foden left, he's poor out there.

 

[balotelli's back pocket]

I would imagine we'll overload the right and let O'Reilly give us width on the left.

We won't leave a massive gap on their right when they have Sarr out there.

I think we'll play very narrow.

 

[Craig]

Pep’s fault for not subbing him earlier on Weds, he was fucked.

Needed to win the game he was the only one getting us up the pitch

 

[youngbob]

Doku looked goosed at the end of the Madrid game. He's played a heck of a lot of football lately.

 

[MCFC1993]

Pretty damning for Marmoush that he still can't get a start in Doku's absence in the last game before he leaves for AFCON.

I'm hoping Reijnders plays just off Haaland, to give us two runners through the middle for Foden and Cherki to find.

AFCON is a reason not to start Marmoush, might as well try and play Reijnders into form.

I do think Marmoush is just seen as the back up 9 now though. He's not a left winger for me, not go the technique for it.

 

[richards30]

Surely foden left and cherki right

Bernardo right, Foden left and Cherki central?

 

[OrigamiNinja]

Doku is a huge loss.

Big game for Reijnders, he’s been gash/invisible most weeks. Can’t afford another nothing performance from him, in what will be a tough game.

 

[MCFC1993]

We won't leave a massive gap on their right when they have Sarr out there.

I think we'll play very narrow.

I think it'll be Reijnders when defending, but when attacking we'll overload the right.

So the gap won't be there defending.

 

[BuryBlue1977]

Doku must play today. He will have Clyne on toast.

 

[richards30]

Marmoush toast then?

 

[lonestay]

Nice to see that Cherki seems to have Peps eye as a regular now .

 

[Craig]

Surely foden left and cherki right

Why would you do that when Cherki is completely 2 footed? It won’t matter to him which side he’s on