West Brom pre-match thread

[eversince 76]

Some players simply need a rest. Sometimes you can unsettle a player by resting him. Others need minutes to get back to being a 100% match fit. There is maybe one or two to be tested after injury either as a starter or a sub. Than you need to look at the next opponent and the importance of getting a result with an eye on the next match as well. You tend to think it's not easy to be Pellegrini.

I know we need to win this one badly. Unfortunately, but we've put ourselves in this position. Best chance to play Chimps Lg. next year is to finish in top 4. By far the best chance ...

 

[schfc6]

Hopefully Toure is fit. He wins many of our defensive headers defensively. WBA offer a true ariel threat. I'd start Sagna and Kolarov. Ya Ya too if fit.
How I'd get them in the side? Glad I'm not the manager.

Perhaps Ya Ya, Delph and Fernando. With Navas and Silva and Serio through the middle?

 

[TexasCityzen]

Toure and Delph to start in the middle if both fit. Kolarov and Zaba in at fullback. I'm not of mind that losing this WBA game is the end of the world. Based on the season's results, we should expect half of the team to coast through this game with one eye on Tuesday. Really unfortunate we got handed the Wed/Tue draw in CL and not the Tue/Wed. Could definitely be using those extra two days of rest.

If we want to have a chance next tuesday, we need Clichy, Sagna, nando, and dinho to be fully rested and ready to put in a shift. 4 games in 10 days...it is absolutely unreasonable for anyone to say "these are professional footballers and they need to play every game"

Nasri to start for Silva or Kev. With the names I've mentioned as replacements, there is no reason we can't win at home against WBA...

 

[Hungarian blue]

Fernandinho and Delph never really worked as both are sort of an energizer bunnies who leave huge gaps of spaces open and especially Delph isn't the smartest player of all, from what I've seen. But he was very solid alongside Fernando and we beat easily the lesser sides with that pair (Norwich and Villa in the cup, for example, but I think that's how we started against Palace where Delph was MotM), so if Yaya is still not fit, I'd go with them.

Kolarov and Zabaleta seem like certain starters, as well as Mangala and Otamendi, and the front four should be, in my opinion, the 'strongest possible' and hopefully we can seal the game at worst after 60 minutes or so. Which is the strongest, remains a question, but I'm sure either of Bony or Iheanacho will play. Knowing Pellers, it'll be Bony I guess... Stick Aguero and Silva and one of KdB/Nasri/Navas there and that should do it. Then rest Kun, Silva as much as we can, if the result is ok.

 

[Sergio Picasso Aguero]

vs West Brom

Hart
Zabaleta Otamendi Mangala Kolarov
Fernando Fernandinho
Navas Silva De Bruyne
Aguero


vs PSG

Hart
Sagna Kompany Mangala Clichy
Fernando Fernandinho Toure
De Bruyne Silva Aguero

 

[Credo]

Rest KDB nd Aguero. You cannot take the risk v WBA with them.

 

[HellYeah]

no fucking around and players can be brought off if we have a decent cushion.

hart
zab
otamendi
mangala
kolarov
Fernando
dinho
yaya
de bruyne
silva
aguero

This all the way, we cannot afford to 'rest' players. We need to win every game and therefore play the best players available. Anyone suggesting for one second that Bony should play needs to go and lie down in a dark room and think about their place in the world.

 

[bluemc1]

very tough to call, need to make this weekend count, a game we should win and a game the rags should lose, but tuesday is also huge. i think no matter what team we put out West Brom will sit back and not cause much threat so if made to choose i think id gamble and rest a few
KDB MUST NOT PLAY THOUGH

 

[blueinsa]

Players will be rested for the PSG game so hopefully those brought in can get the job done.

 

[Neville Kneville]

We have to look after KDB.

If he does play at all it should be half a game. There is no point in risking fucking him up. Forgetting the PSG game, the other league games are just as important as Saturdays game, so if his legs go for next week, & we can't use him, it defeats the object of using him on Saturday.

We need to get him fit & not wear him out like we did at the start of the season.