Carabao Cup Final pre-match thread

Carabao Cup Final prediction

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Armaan said:
Give over, I’m sick of this bravo hate. There’s nothing he could have done about that shot and no, Ederson wouldn’t have saved it either.
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True......Bravo was not the problem with that goal,there is still too much of this blame Bravo.
 
BlueAnorak said:
Well he just helped us get knocked out of the FA cup - so that one goes out of the window.
If he plays we lose its as simple as that.
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Nope that was mostly Walker, the team not taking their chances and Taylor being a hero (and Grigg taking his chance). If it makes you feel any better the final will be his last game for this season (barring any injury to Ederson),
 
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Nope that was mostly Walker, the team not taking their chances and Taylor being a hero. If it makes you feel any better the final wiil be his last game for this season (barring any injury to Ederson),
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It was entirely Walker and it was completely unnecessary, like Otamendi against Leicester. These aren’t mistakes borne out of playing ‘high risk’ football, they’re just poor mistakes at key times.
 
So often teams get knocked out of 2 competitions in quick succession. I accept the result at Wigan but wished we had now fielded a weaker team.

I can see Aubyemang having a field day on Sunday. Hope I’m wrong...
 
Wanchope n me Dickov said:
So often teams get knocked out of 2 competitions in quick succession. I accept the result at Wigan but wished we had now fielded a weaker team.

I can see Aubyemang having a field day on Sunday. Hope I’m wrong...
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Hopefully we will have Vinny and the General in the back four to handle their forward threat.
 
I gotta be honest and say we look far more confident with Eddie in goal, can't blame bravo for the Wigan goal tonight, OK it's quiet possible Eddie would have rushed out and cleaned up or narrowed the angles or whatever, Bravo I don't think is at fault here, regardless, the fact remains were a better and more confident footballing unit with him in it than with bravo, on the basis of that alone he starts for me on Sunday.

At left back I think I'd go with Zinchenko, however when we might be up against it further on in the CL it might be good to have a more confident Danilo to call upon when we come up against better attacking teams, so going off the back of that I wouldn't be too disappointed to see him start either I'm by no means convinced by Danilo to be honest but he may yet prove an important part of the squad this season. Zinchenko has made the most of his first team chances being played out of position, I think he looks so calm and is clearly a ball player and very comfortable stepping up into his normal attacking position, defending wise he's made an error or two but hasn't done his chances any harm.

Stones form has been off, Laporte I'm unsure he's gotten the game time to build an understanding to start in a final just yet. Vincent is a rock, will keep Aubamayang in his pocket. Hopefully Jesus can make the bench to offer something from there should we need it.

The rest picks itself for me, start fast and they won't know what hit them, hopefully take a few early chances and calm all our nerves to get the first silverware of the season out of the way, hit them again on Thursday while their still reeling from Sunday

Eddie
Walker
Zinchenko/Danilo
Vinnie
Nico
Fernandinho
Spanish Dave
KDB
Sterling
Sane
Sergio
 
Please Pep no more Gundoghan and Bernardo Silva, when these two play, the whole team becomes disjointed and slow.
 
I'm not as confident as id like to be,given our weakness in goal and leftback.Delph being banned is a huge loss.

Hopefully Jesus's return can inspire us.
 
I don't get why everyone is slating Danilo, Gundogan and Bernardo! They have been great for us in the last couple of games

Danilo ran the most in the game against Wigan and I believe he tried his best

Gundogan and Bernardo also tried their best. We have to forget the Wigan game and not start judging players because of one game. The mistakes were done by Walker, Delph and Stones! But even with those mistakes we still could have won that game but this is football so let's move on

Arsenal game will be more open and will be different. I think Danilo should start over Zinchenko. Zinchenko is good going forward but not as good in defending. Sane is still not 100 percent, even Silva. But I hope they will be to their best at the Final

Bravo will start for sure as he earned his right to play the final

My selection will be:

Bravo
Walker
Vinnie
Otamendi
Danilo
Ferna
De Bryune
Silva (Gundogan replacing him second half)
Sterling
Sane ( subbed with Bernardo coming in second half)
Aguero ( with Jesus maybe back in second half)
 
Play our strongest team, get back to winning ways and get a trophy in the bag

Not arsed about GK or any player sentiment, and though I do think Bravo deserves to play, but if our strongest team sees him or anyone else dropped so be it.

Bravo/Eddy
walker
Otter
Laporte
Zichenko/danilo
Ferdy
KDB
Silva
Bernardo/sane
Aguero
Sterling



I would be tempted to leave sane out as bernarso has been playing well

and possible play zivchenko over danilo
 
Very important game this.We implode and lose the final and our season goes downwards.Or
We pick ourselves from Wigan defeat and come back stronger to finish with 2 trophies and good CL run.
Week will be tough as Press and pundits will be calling for bans on Pep and Aguero to go with bad publicity over Wigan defeat also Sane and Silva are not at their best yet and Aguero isn't looking a finisher he looked a few days back
The best way to overcome this will be a win against a PL side in cup final at Wembley.
Hopefully lads will put up a spirited performance and we win
 
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