Everton (A) - Wed 27th Dec, 20:15 | PL | Pre-Match Thread

[Inter Me Nan]

Lewis Hamilton on the bench ha!

 

[phargrave]

Agree, these are the opportunities he needs to grasp.

And the other 10……

 

[antspider]

Oh no!!!! Can't watch or listen, might have to dip into the match day thread!!!! Wish me luck fellow blues,, :)

 

[wattle]

No sub night again. Maybe kovotic at some stage but that’s it unless injuries

 

[TrentGrisham]

Not many options off the bench, but I like the XI. I think Nunes is a good call to potentially counter Onana's pace through the middle. He just needs to be careful on the ball.

 

[colorado blue]

Is Haaland even training yet? I would expect a bone fracture to take a few months to heal. No idea what Doku injury is, don’t recall anyone saying how long he will be out either.

 

[ninjamonkey]

These injuries are killing us. They train for days and still do not feature at all it seems. They can’t be far off.

We have relatively few injuries compared to others. Think we've currently got 4 in total. It's difficult to moan about them when we decided to go into the season with such a small squad. Having periods where we would barely have a bench was as good as an inevitability as it gets.

I don't think we could physically field a team if we had the injury list of say a newcastle or chelsea or even united.

 

[M Gaudino]

the bench is junior

 

[I'm Blue]

That’ll do under circumstances.
1-3
COME ON CITY!!!

 

[simon23]

Good game to see if Nunes has the temprement to grasp a game and help control it or whether he goes missing in physical games where there is a battle.