Brentford (H) - Wed 17th Dec, 19:30 | EFL Cup | Pre-Match Thread

Match Result Prediction?


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Only guaranteed starters are Trafford, Lewis, Khusanov, Ake, Reijnders, Bobb and Savinho. Possibly Mukasa too. Can see Dias/Gvardiol and Gonzalez/Bernardo playing a half each.

It’s a big blow not having Ait-Nouri and Marmoush available. Suddenly the squad depth is looking problematic.
Phil and Nunes will probably play too, they are the kind of guys who can keep playing.
 
Time for some of the squad players to do a bit. A few can make amends for the Leverkusen showing and get us on the road to Wembley.
 
This is a tough one because recently we have been playing a pretty settled team for once which means players absolutely need a rest. Do you take a gamble and rest 4/5 against Brentford then another 4/5 against West Ham and hope you still win both or do you take a huge gamble and rest most against Brentford and hope to get thru?

Nico G though cannot play for me, we cannot afford to do what we did to Rodri in the position we only have one player for currently. I wouldn't be playing Foden Silva or Oreilly either.
 
It’s a big blow not having Ait-Nouri and Marmoush available. Suddenly the squad depth is looking problematic.
Most teams are missing lads for the Afcon.
The strength , not numbers, does look problematic.
Stones, Ake and Kovacic, all top players, missing regularly should have been addressed.
 
Trafford
Nunes Khusanov Gvardiol Ake
Reijnders Bernardo Lewis
Savinho Haaland Bobb

Switch Gvariol for Dias at HT, switch Bernardo for Gonzalez at HT, switch Haaland for whoever.
 
Why would you do that?
We probably wouldn't have enough fit players plus 2 away at the Afcon plus I'm guessing Pep wants to win the match.
Change a good few of them but not the entire team.
Hopefully Pep has learnt his lesson from the Leverkusen match, which he has admitted he got wrong.
 
I'll play Nunes and O'Reilly for this match, then I won't play them against West Ham. I'll give them 10 days off to recover until October 27th against Nottingham Forest.

One half for Dias and one half for Gvardiol. An opportunity to test O'Reilly in midfield to see how he performs.

.........................Trafford.......................

Nunes.......khusanov.... días..........Ake

.......................... O'Reilly........................
..............R.Lewis...........Reijnders........
O.Bobb.....................................Savinho
...........................Mukasa......................
Fucking hell October 27 is a long break.
 
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