Newcastle United (A) - Sat 28th Sept, 12:30 | PL | Pre-Match Thread

[freshie]

Bernardo RW? Hmmm

 

[M Gaudino]

can we not play the pfa player of the year or something

 

[Beanhead]

Not a fan of that line up at all. Looks very, very one paced. Got a feeling this could be one of those long early kick off’s :(

 

[DMA's]

No creativity?

The best footballing midfielders in the league.

There is more to football than "get it out wide and cross to the big man"

Grealish and Bernardo will not create and haaland will be isolated.

 

[Mike N]

Jesus Christ. The incessant moaning on here. Let’s hope our fans at the ground back the boys regardless of the team selection.

 

[ninjamonkey]

Hmmm. Full trust in Pep but I simply cannot see how we create anything with that team. Lewis and gundo late shadow runs into the box perhaps?

We've got so many injuries that Carson is back on the bench!

We really don't. 4 injuries isn't close to being out of the norm, we just have an exceptionally small squad.

 

[burnley blue mcfc]

Foden’s lack of game time is starting to concern me

 

[MadchesterCity]

Let’s hope the referee protects the players rather than endanger them like in Arsenal match. Why Carson on bench and not O’reilly?

 

[kaz7]

Have a bit of patience and let pep adjust things to cope with no rodders , nice and solid in the middle of the park then hopefully feel our way into attacking

 

[MCFC1993]

I wouldn't be surprised if we line up like this:
----------------Ederson
Walker---Dias---Akanji---Gvardiol
----------Kovacic---Gundogan
Lewis---------Bernardo-----Grealish
------------------Haaland

It's very fluid, don't think it's nailed that Lewis is in the middle, he'll dip and out of there with Bernardo.