chim chim cha boo 5:30 Mon Feb 28
How would we line up if Cressy and Antonio got injured?
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At the ground yesterday Cresswell took a massive clump in the second half and although he played on it was obvious that he wasn't quite right. He ran on but every time he walked he was limping. It wouldn't surprise me if he sat the Southampton game out.
As for Micky, we know with some certainly that Bowen would move up front, not that Micky IS injured, but we all know that he's one gut busting run from exploding.
So, sorry to ask a football question on here but I am genuinely interested in how you'd have us line up given that potential disaster?
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Rossal
5:40 Mon Feb 28
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Fab
Ashby/Coufal Dawson Zooooo Johnson
Fredricks
Rice Soucek
Vlasic Lanzini Benrahma
Antonio
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Woodford Green
5:45 Mon Feb 28
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I think the bigger concern is what happens if Johnson got injured as there are other fit specialist right backs in the squad at the moment.
Couldn't Diop or Arthur (at a push) could deputise for Cressers?
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El Scorchio
5:46 Mon Feb 28
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With Coufal and Masuaku out already it becomes very tricky at full back. It seems to always be the case at WHU that injuries wipe out one specific area of the team at a time. The fullbacks have all been in the wars this season. Every single one of the five of them has missed time IIRC.
I think you'd have to go Johnson LB Fredericks RB unless you promote one of the youth players. Luckily whoever it is will have Zouma and Dawson alongside them. I don't think the answer is to use Diop or Dawson as a full back.
Antonio is simpler- Bowen goes up top and Vlasic or Benrahma would start where Bowen would do.
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Johnson
5:51 Mon Feb 28
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Masuaku is out for the season I think
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Darby_
5:51 Mon Feb 28
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For Cressers, 5-3-2 with three centrebacks.
For Micky, Bowen, Vlasic or Yarmo presumably.
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goose
5:55 Mon Feb 28
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Moyes doesnt seem to trust the kids so i would expect Stuart Pearce to cover at left back and Kevin Nolan to come in as a false 9.
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Lee Trundle
6:19 Mon Feb 28
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I'd line up the new left back and new striker we should have got over a year ago, when I kept on being told IN MOYES WE TRUST.
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6:23 Mon Feb 28
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Bowen would go up top if Antonio was out, as he has before.
Ben Johnson would cover at LB, providing either Coufal or Fredericks was fit to play RB. If not, I guess Longelo would finally get a chance at LB.
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twoleftfeet
6:54 Mon Feb 28
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Trundle being a prick again I see.
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The Stoat
7:08 Mon Feb 28
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Rossal 5:40 Mon Feb 28
The obvious flaw in your line up is you have picked Antonio
Did you read the question? ;-)
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Nagel
7:32 Mon Feb 28
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352, with Johnson as the LCB.
------------------Fabianski----------------
----------Dawson Zouma Johnson----
Coufal-----Rice----Soucek----Fornals
-------------------Lanzini-------------------
---------Bowen----------Benrahma------
Or 4312 with Johnson as LB.
------------------Fabianski-----------------
Coufal----Dawson Zouma Johnson--
--------Rice-----Soucek---Fornals------
-------------------Lanzini-------------------
---------Bowen----------Benrahma------
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7:43 Mon Feb 28
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The Stoat 7:08 Mon Feb 28
Rossal is a thick cunt who can barely read.
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chim chim cha boo
7:49 Mon Feb 28
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It's placing a lot on Ben's shoulders playing him at left back isn't it?
I love the kid but when he's played there before he hasn't looked too special. It's a big ask of a kid to play him at left or right back, get up the field and deliver a cross into the box. His versatility could actually be to his detriment?
Still, glad that you have so much faith in him, particularly if Benrahma plays in front of him as I love his mazzy runs but he loses the ball A LOT.
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El Scorchio
7:52 Mon Feb 28
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Well the choice will be which of Johnson and Fredericks do you place in which full back position seen as they are the only two fit full backs. Are we worse with Johnson RB and Fred LB, or the other way round?
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Ron Eff
7:58 Mon Feb 28
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El Scorchio 7:52 Mon Feb 28
I think we’re better with 10 than Fredericks starting in either position.
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El Scorchio
8:02 Mon Feb 28
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You may well be right there!
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tnb
8:18 Mon Feb 28
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If it’s while Coufal is out then…well then we’re fucked. But best of a bad lot:
Fabianski
Fredericks
Zouma
Dawson
Johnson
Rice
Soucek
Fornals
Benrahma
Lanzini
Bowen
There’s no way we should entertain the idea of Masuaku in a back 4, and without Cresswell or Ogbonna I’d be equally concerned about the left side even with a 3/5. Johnson at centre-half seems to have become a nailed-on solution for some without much if any evidence it’s a good idea. So as shit as Fredericks is, in he goes. Fornals did a job yesterday but Cresswell offers a degree of security which Diop…well, yeah.
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8:19 Mon Feb 28
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“If it’s while Coufal is out then…well then we’re fucked.”
Except that Johnson has been far superior to Coufal all season.
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tnb
8:22 Mon Feb 28
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Not at left back, which is where he will have to go if Cresswell is injured. The point is one of our two best right backs will be out and the other will have to play out of position.
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8:23 Mon Feb 28
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Longelo comes in. Simples.
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