West Ham (h) pre-match thread

[BlueAnorak]

West Ham are awful. Our second team should win this (even though I am temping the Typical City Gods here).
So baring in mind the trip to Kharkiv I would play Folden and Bernardo together in both games in the centre. Hell, why not play Gundogan instead of Fernandinho too!

 

[Cityfan]

I very rarely see managers resting players in case of suspension and I wouldn't expect Pep to, particularly with Vinny who clearly needs match practice . We also have a full 7 days to rest any player who needs it as there are no players who have to be chosen midweek. I might rest Fern as he has had an awful lot of football under his belt this season and is pretty difficult to replace.
I would go

Ederson
Walker Kompany Ottamendi Delph
Silva De Bruyne Gundogan
Sterling Jesus Sane

 

[blue cigar]

Ederson
Walker Vinny Otta Danilo
Delph
De bruyne Silva
Sterling. Sergio. Sane

A steady 2 nil with no drama or injuries.

 

[Lancet Fluke]

I just hope Pep rests Leroy and Fern. We really should back ourselves to beat West Ham without them and it would be a bit of a blow to go to the swamp missing either of them.

 

[kaz7]

Sane,vinny and dinho should not play as we need them for the derby,we get yellows for looking at the other players so don't play them,we have a squad so use them

 

[gkmcfc]

The longer this run continues the more nervous I get lol. Be interesting to see if the squad gets rotated but this should be an easy win. Anyone think we can score a lot of goals??

 

[urban genie]

rest ferdy and kev to aviod ferdy yellow and give kev a break.

Ederson
Walker Vinny Otta Delph
Gundongen
Bernardo Silva
Sterling. Sergio. Sane

 

[lionheart]

I very rarely see managers resting players in case of suspension and I wouldn't expect Pep to, particularly with Vinny who clearly needs match practice . We also have a full 7 days to rest any player who needs it as there are no players who have to be chosen midweek...

Sorry but what does a 7 days rest have to do with the suspension issue? If Dinho, Leroy or Vinny are booked on Sunday, they will automatically miss the United game. They need to be nowhere near the squad for West Ham, except possibly Leroy on the bench as a very last resort if we fail to score. Personally I would prefer Zinchenko on the left.

 

[blueparrot]

Sorry but what does a 7 days rest have to do with the suspension issue? If Dinho, Leroy or Vinny are booked on Sunday, they will automatically miss the United game. They need to be nowhere near the squad for West Ham, except possibly Leroy on the bench as a very last resort if we fail to score. Personally I would prefer Zinchenko on the left.

Because first and foremost Pep will be thinking about 3 points on Sunday and hopefully a 10 or 11 point lead, getting too clever and too far ahead is how teams trip themselves up. If we get a suspension to deal with he'll deal with it.

 

[Cityfan]

Sorry but what does a 7 days rest have to do with the suspension issue? If Dinho, Leroy or Vinny are booked on Sunday, they will automatically miss the United game. They need to be nowhere near the squad for West Ham, except possibly Leroy on the bench as a very last resort if we fail to score. Personally I would prefer Zinchenko on the left.

7 days rest is nothing to do with the suspension, I was making two separate points .
Point 1) Managers don't tend to rest players in case of suspension
Point 2) There is less need to rest players for the united game for tiredness as there are no intervening games they have to play. Although from an overall number of games played some players may benefit from a full 11 days rest. Fern and possibly Kev fall into this category for me.

I would definitely play Vinnie, he needs match practice.