Yep, I think we need to find a balance. I thought Pompey looked decent against us and Oxford smashed them. This will be a difficult game and we need to field a strong side.
Yep, I think we need to find a balance. I thought Pompey looked decent against us and Oxford smashed them. This will be a difficult game and we need to field a strong side.
Solly has to start RB with Green/Wilson in front of him. It's a good chance for them to get some sort of match-experience together for the following three games of Pritch's suspension.
Might it be worth playing Green wide right with Wilson/Gower in the middle?
Hamer Wilson Dervitte Wood Evina Green Stephens Hughes Harriott Kerm(c) Sordell
As above, Oxford smashed a (10 man) Pompy, so want enough stability in defence and goal...
Green HAS to start I feel, needs a decent run out before 'Boro. Stephens and Hughes as JJ should be back for the Boro game, is only a knock keeping him out. Thus him and Gower will be back in. Harriott on lack of anyone else. (Unless you play Wiggo LB and Evina LM)
I also feel we must start Kermorgant and Sordell up top. Kerm was frustrated about how he played with someone who he had only done 3 or so hours of training with, thus giving them 70-90 more mins together, (against anyone!) is crucial.
Bench - Phillips, Fox, Feely, Gower Hollands, Piggot, Church
Yep, I think we need to find a balance. I thought Pompey looked decent against us and Oxford smashed them. This will be a difficult game and we need to field a strong side.
Despite us already being in a relegation scrap?
Definitely, the midfield on Saturday looked like they'd never met each other before, Sordell probably actually hasn't. We need to get some consistency and I really don't see how we'll benefit from playing a weakened team for the sake of it.
I'd rest Harriott as we don't want to burn him out. Green on left, Wilson right. Church to start. The rest I'll leave to CP to decide.
I'd actually play Harriott. I thought he looked a little off the pace and might benefit from some extra game time pre 'Boro which will be tough for him
CP has a history of making 10 or 11 changes for League Cup games, so that's what I'm going with.
This but maybe Sordell for Pigott
Didn't Powell say earlier in the pre-season that he wanted a cup run ?
Yes he did. But then yesterday he said the following:-
“The schedule is quite relentless,” he said. “We’ve got the cup game on Tuesday and I may rest a few people and then we have got Middlesbrough at home which is a big game and a big start for us."
I am a huge CP fan, but he will significantly go down in my estimation if he backtracks on what he's previously said. Not that it will bother him, I suppose...
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Wilson, Cort, Wood, Evina
Green, Cousins, Stephens, Cook
Piggott, Church
Subs: Hamer, Solly, Morro, Hollands, Jackson, Azeez, Sordell
Might it be worth playing Green wide right with Wilson/Gower in the middle?
Pope (gives him some experience in case called upon in future)
Solly-Morrison-Dervite-Evina
Green-Stephens-Gower-Harriott
Sordell-Church
subs: Hamer,Cort,Wilson,Hollands,Cousins,Cook,Piggott
Wilson Dervitte Wood Evina
Green Stephens Hughes Harriott
Kerm(c) Sordell
As above, Oxford smashed a (10 man) Pompy, so want enough stability in defence and goal...
Green HAS to start I feel, needs a decent run out before 'Boro. Stephens and Hughes as JJ should be back for the Boro game, is only a knock keeping him out. Thus him and Gower will be back in. Harriott on lack of anyone else. (Unless you play Wiggo LB and Evina LM)
I also feel we must start Kermorgant and Sordell up top. Kerm was frustrated about how he played with someone who he had only done 3 or so hours of training with, thus giving them 70-90 more mins together, (against anyone!) is crucial.
Bench - Phillips, Fox, Feely, Gower Hollands, Piggot, Church
LB : Evina
CB : Cort
CB : Wood
RB : Wilson
RM: Pritch
CM: Cousins
CM: Stevens
LM: Harriot
ST: Piggot
ST: Church
LB:Fox
CB:Cort
CB:Morro
RB:Solly
LM:Harriott
CM:Cousins
CM:Stephens
CM:Hollands
RM:Wilson
ST: Church.
Bench: Hamer, Evina, Wood, Hughes, Cook, Sordell, Piggott
Give a few midfielders a run out
Wilson - Cort - Wood - Evina
Green - Stephens - Hollands - Cook
Pigott - Church
SUBS - Hamer, Feely, Cousins, Gower, Harriott, Azeez, Sordell.
CP has a history of making 10 or 11 changes for League Cup games, so that's what I'm going with.
LB:Fox
CB:Cort
CB:Wood
RB:Wilson
LM:Evina
CM:Cousins
CM:Stephens
CM:Hollands
RM:Pritch (if not suspended)
ST: Church
“The schedule is quite relentless,” he said. “We’ve got the cup game on Tuesday and I may rest a few people and then we have got Middlesbrough at home which is a big game and a big start for us."
I am a huge CP fan, but he will significantly go down in my estimation if he backtracks on what he's previously said. Not that it will bother him, I suppose...