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Think he needs to start at Norwich and Perez to make an impact from the bench. We were very poor in the first half yesterday and unless we take a control of the midfield next week we're unlikely to win. Our link up play was awful until he came on.

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Yeah, he should be in the team now :thup: I wish there was a way to fit De Jong, Cisse and Mitrovic in the same line-up.

 

Tough without sacrificing all width.  Three at the back with Townsend and Sissoko going up and down the wings and covering the FB positions?

 

                        Mitro        Cisse

 

                              De Jong         

 

Townsend                                          Sissoko

 

                      Saivet        Shelvey   

 

              Colo      Lascelles    Fistpumps

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Yeah, he should be in the team now :thup: I wish there was a way to fit De Jong, Cisse and Mitrovic in the same line-up.

 

Tough without sacrificing all width.  Three at the back with Townsend and Sissoko going up and down the wings and covering the FB positions?

 

                        Mitro        Cisse

 

                              De Jong         

 

Townsend                                          Sissoko

 

                      Saivet        Shelvey   

 

              Colo      Lascelles    Fistpumps

 

Taylor ahead of Mbemba is an unforgivable mistake.

 

 

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Yeah, he should be in the team now :thup: I wish there was a way to fit De Jong, Cisse and Mitrovic in the same line-up.

 

Tough without sacrificing all width.  Three at the back with Townsend and Sissoko going up and down the wings and covering the FB positions?

 

                        Mitro        Cisse

 

                              De Jong         

 

Townsend                                          Sissoko

 

                      Saivet        Shelvey   

 

              Colo      Lascelles    Fistpumps

 

Taylor ahead of Mbemba is an unforgivable mistake.

 

 

 

Mbemba's in goal.

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I doubt Rafa will change the system as dramatically as that. I would be OK with Perez sitting out a game or two.

 

Yeah, it was just a response to whether or not we could fit all three in the same team, I wouldn't play that formation :lol:

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I'm unconvinced he should play from the start. He strikes me as a player who would be better coming on as a sub to give us a different dimension when legs begin to tire and whatever imagination we have is exhausted. But willing to give him the chance to start behind Mitro and Cisse against Norwich.     

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It was nice to have someone on the pitch, that actually showed for the ball and didn't seem s*** scared.  Unless they were totally unmarked or safe in our own half.  None of our players seemed to want the ball.  It was pathetic. 

 

This is why I hate Colback as a player - he doesn't move into positions to be able to accept a pass and do something with it - he just stands there and if the ball is passed forward to him by the defense, then his first reaction is to immediately play it right back to the same player. Pointless.

 

Compare that with the better teams who receive the ball without standing back-to-goal, and who are working to move into position to receive the pass or to receive the next pass from the first guy.  We are so static.

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I wish he had gotten more time yesterday. He was solid, even won the ball back a few times which I didn't think was possible without him shattering into a million pieces.

 

Think I agree that he should start ahead of Perez at the moment.

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Not sure we can play Wijnaldum and Perez in the same team, we can't afford to carry two players when they go missing. SDJ has to start behind Mitro or Cisse.

 

Starting to think this myself, at least while they're both struggling and we're desperate for points.

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