West Ham United (A) - Sat 16th Sept, 15:00 | PL | Pre-Match Thread

[BringBackSwales]

Ederson
Walker-Dias,Stones-Gvardiol
Foden, Nunes,Rodri,Bernardo
Haaland, Alvarez

I think this is our best 11, With stones moving into midfield and foden and Bernardo into attack in possession to form the 3-2-5 in attack

Nunes not even played for us yet but he’s better than Grealish and Kovacic? Wow

 

[VOOMER]

He will get less games by the simple fact we have more players to use but I don't see his game time being the most impacted by those 2 playing. Nunes will play deeper. I suspect we will primarily be using 2 from rodri, Kovacic, nunes and possibly Bernardo. Doku will be on either wing with foden, grealish and bernardo as competition. Still think Alvarez could play from the wing but he tends to operate more as the 10 which is generally kdb, him or foden. They'll be times where pep rips this up and knowing him, we will be playing an entirely different way come christmas but that seems to be the formation we've started the season using and the pools of players we have for each role.

With 5 subs he'll get plenty of time

 

[PhillyBasedBlue]

Nunes not even played for us yet but he’s better than Grealish and Kovacic? Wow

Good game for nunes debut.

 

[super_city_si]

Cant see nunes starting over kovacic. Think Nunes will get his first start in a home game.

ederson
walker stones dias ake
rodri kovacic
bernardo foden grealish
haaland

i think pep will want full control. He’ll pick players with the least amount of turn over risk as west ham are full on counter attacking. Walker to give us pace when going back to our goal.

Ake or Gvardiol, theyre interchangeable for me. Bowen running off antonio is their threat but i think either of them are quick enough and savvy enough. Picked Ake cos hes played him before.

 

[BringBackSwales]

Good game for nunes debut.

Why? A tough game at an in form team. Maybe some minutes off the bench but I wouldn’t be benching either Rodri or Kovacic

 

[PhillyBasedBlue]

Cant see nunes starting over kovacic. Think Nunes will get his first start in a home game.

ederson
walker stones dias ake
rodri kovacic
bernardo foden grealish
haaland

i think pep will want full control. He’ll pick players with the least amount of turn over risk as west ham are full on counter attacking. Walker to give us pace when going back to our goal.

Ake or Gvardiol, theyre interchangeable for me. Bowen running off antonio is their threat but i think either of them are quick enough and savvy enough. Picked Ake cos hes played him before.

Ake‘s not fit.

 

[super_city_si]

Ake‘s not fit.

Yes just saw that. Gvardiol in no problems.

 

[citymad]

Bloody hell I wouldn’t want to be the opposing manager trying to come up with a plan to stop us at the moment.

 

[117 M34]

Any team without Alvarez isn’t our strongest 11

Depends on the situation and opposition.
I'd leave him out here and add another in midfield.

 

[citymad]

Ederson
Walker-Dias,Stones-Gvardiol
Foden, Nunes,Rodri,Bernardo
Haaland, Alvarez

I think this is our best 11, With stones moving into midfield and foden and Bernardo into attack in possession to form the 3-2-5 in attack

4/10 You still need some work over there before you starting picking our best team. Nunes hasn’t even played yet and you haven’t even considered our best performer so far Kova or even Jack.