West Brom (A) Pre-Match Thread

[Scouse Blue]

sane injured??

Nope. Not in the squad, and i'm guessing Pep noticed his seeming lack of interest and won't tolerate such.

 

[prestonibbo_mcfc]

Coz its pep and its hip and cool to piss about with formations .he has a book out that some people think is the holy bible the way its quoted on here

It's not. It's bloody obvious that he's added a bit of height at the back and in midfield, to combat
Pullisball.

 

[prestonibbo_mcfc]

Avoiding the matchday thread then?

We should make a bingo card for that one.

I might dip my toe in, at half time. Depends how it's going.

 

[Chi-town blues]

Rondon is a strong player and will be handful to our back three.
It will be a long and frustrating game .
Fucking Tony Pulis football.

 

[Damien10]

That fraud Aleks still making the team, he's like a bad smell.

 

[Blue Hefner]

Decent side, plenty of height in the starting 11 and goals on the bench

 

[stony]

The match thread should be fun today...

 

[BigOscar]

That's definitely why Pep is using it. Because it's trendy.

I don't think that's why Pep is using it, but it was why Mancini and BRodge did, along with a few others. Mancini had a great set up that was working, then saw everyone in Italy playing 3 at the back so threw away our system for the trainwreck of three at the back. Whereas Rodgers seemed to just lose the plot and start randomly playing people in random positions in an attempt to stop people calling him a fraud.

Not a fan of it at all, no one in England has had any prolonged success with it yet. Hopefully Pep will change that as his is a very different imagining of it, but I'd rather he just went back to what had us winning

 

[kaz7]

It's not. It's bloody obvious that he's added a bit of height at the back and in midfield, to combat
Pullisball.

This,the ball won't be on the floor much at that end

 

[cookster]

Don't get it, Maffeo put's in a great performance not in the squad. Garcia has been consistently better than Fernando (but who hasn't), on the bench.
Kept hearing Pep promotes youth, not seeing it.