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--------------------Hart--------------------- Sagna---Otamendi---Mangala---Clichy -----Fernandinho---------Delph---------- Navas-------------Silva---------------KdB --------------------Bony--------------------- Defence & CMs pick themselves given injuries. Only question is who doesn't play...

I'd take Aubameyang first. Problem is he's already stated he wants to play in Spain next rather than PL. With the Benzema issues I'm inclined to think he's heading to Madrid. Doesn't Griezmann have a buyout clause? Thought it was £50-55m. Not sure he's worth that much but he'd certainly be a...

No. Presumably the hope is we are lining someone (Pep) up for the summer. Pointless to remove Pellegrini unless we're truly in drastic danger of missing out on CL, i.e. lost the dressing room & this type of performance starts becoming the norm. I'm sure others have pointed out we've got...

Kolarov. Loves attacking but can't be bothered with the defending malarkey.

Well he was holding his hammy. If he did indeed pull it then fair enough you can't carry on, but if he's back in a week or so there will be some serious questions asked.

Just to calm everyone down we have an easy match against Gladbach at home next to regain confidence.. They're currently 3-0 up against Bayern.

And how many on target? Unless I'm mistaken it was one I think? All his crosses were useless, even with the wind helping him. There were 2-3 occasions when the ball came to him & he just randomly hoofed it to their keeper as a shot/pass from 40 yards out. He was on the penalty spot when Navas...

At times I felt like laughing when seeing his defending today, a mixture of comedy & despair.

This is a Stoke team who can't score goals. Should have 4-5. We shipped 4 to a Spurs team who couldn't score goals at the time. We shipped 4 to a Liverpool side who'd only scored more than once in a game about twice in the last 20 matches. Truly comical at the back. A total shambles.

We need goals, so far this season Pellegrini when forced to change tactic has done one thing: changed to 433. Delph for Fernando, not Delph for an attacker please. I see him taking Sterling off to play Delph though.

Hard to pick which was worse, this or the Liverpool first half. If it wasn't so predictable it'd be less frustrating, I said yesterday we make players like Shaqiri look amazing by how we play, I said Kolarov would get done by Shaqiri if he started. We all know Demichelis is a liability - yes...

Thank god we got Everton in the League cup, imagine 2 games against Stoke or Liverpool... We'd be mugged.

Teams have seen what we can't cope with. Take away big strikers & put a few skillful pacey players up top, sit back, then just counter at pace through the huge holes in midfield & defence. Same types of player doing us in every game, from Lamela, to Firmino to Shaqiri - they simply don't...

They won't be today. Look at their line up. Teams are seeing the players we struggle against & just sticking small skillful players on rather than their big lumpy strikers that we deal with well. Shaqiri Affelay & Arnautovic behind Bojan. Would rather have been faced with Walters.

I'm also in the same boat. Dzeko/Bony are good options from the bench & decent back ups - they can both score, but neither suit to our style of play for 90 minutes & look off the pace. Believe Bony has much better hold up play & touches/passes than Dzeko did which is a plus, but seems somehow...

Didn't work out so well last time resting players for the European game. Got mauled by Liverpool at home & then lost in Europe anyway. At least you could claim for that one that had we won at Juve we'd have topped the group; we're now more than likely stuck in 2nd anyway & already qualified...

Why height? Whoever plays left back is going to be up against Shaqiri most likely, can honestly see him tearing Kolarov up so Clichy would definitely get the nod for me. Stoke aren't as big as they once were.

Starting to look like we're going to need another striker near his level to really see us through a season, Bony is a capable backup & good option from the bench but at this rate he'll be playing the majority of the season & I don't think he suits our style enough to be our main striker. Still...

Yeah I'd take Clichy over Kolarov also, but guessing he'll rotate a little from the midweek game hence why Sterling & Kolarov. A little worried Delph/Dinho partnership may be dismantled and we could see Nando/Dinho - which is still OK but feel Delph deserves the start.