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Steve Earle

Stoke (a) pre-match thread

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9 minutes ago, Steve Earle said:

At last, JJ, Evans & Tielemans can have a complete break.

 

Here’s my bound-to-be-wildly-inaccurate guess:

 

Ward


Castagne

Amartey

Soyuncu

Thomas

 

Mendy

 

Under 

Praet 

Choudhury or Tavares

Barnes

 

Perez

 

I'd go the same way but I'd put Perez where you have Barnes and give Iheanacho one last chance up front.

 

The flip side with your side is that we could test Perez up front and if he does well he can be Vardy's understudy instead of Nacho.

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                        Ward 

          Morgan Soyuncu Amartey 

Castagne                               Thomas    
                        Mendy 

              Praet           Hamza
                   Perez   Nacho  
 

That’s the side I’d go with. 
 

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18 minutes ago, winteriscoming said:

                        Ward 

          Morgan Soyuncu Amartey 

Castagne                               Thomas    
                        Mendy 

              Praet           Hamza
                   Perez   Nacho  
 

That’s the side I’d go with. 
 

That team, bar Castange, who I'd swap for Under. Not a wing back but needs minutes, and to earn his place by chipping in defensively. 

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7 minutes ago, coolhandfox said:

We should still go for the FA CUP.

 

We have a the strongest seconded string we have had for a while. 

Yep.

 

Also Stoke are no pushovers.

 

Go strong and get through.

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3 minutes ago, sdb said:

That team, bar Castange, who I'd swap for Under. Not a wing back but needs minutes, and to earn his place by chipping in defensively. 

I’d go for that team but play Ricardo if he’s fit enough.

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Should definitely go for this. Go strong, kill the game then sub and rest players. He has to start Praet, Under and Perez for their morale.  Win is an absolute must. No fixture congestion either, there is a decent gap between games.

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I think I'd go with something like this:

 

                       Ward

Ricardo/JJ  Amartey  Soyuncu Thomas

                      Mendy

             Tielemans  Praet

    Under                             Perez

                      Nacho

 

I'd love for us to finally add an FA Cup to the cabinet, but I think there are bigger priorities this season, and our 2nd string should have too much for Stoke, anyway. I think it's a great opportunity to give minutes to players who need them. Don't know which of Perez or Under should play on the left, but those are the two that I think should play. I doubt Hamza will play if he's going out on loan. Hopefully, it will be a good opportunity for Nacho to build some confidence.

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57 minutes ago, Leicester_Loyal said:

Don't care about the cups this year, except for the EL. Play a second team and if we win happy days, if not more rest for the players.

We've got a week before and after, so fitness shouldn't be an issue?

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59 minutes ago, Steve Earle said:

At last, JJ, Evans & Tielemans can have a complete break.

 

Here’s my bound-to-be-wildly-inaccurate guess:

 

Ward


Castagne

Amartey

Soyuncu

Thomas

 

Mendy

 

Under 

Praet 

Choudhury or Tavares

Barnes

 

Perez

Like most of your lineup, but would prefer a front two with Perez and Nacho (in place of Choudhury).

 

Ward

 

Castagne/Justin

Amartey

Soyuncu

Thomas/Fuchs

 

Mendy

Praet

Under

Barnes

 

Nacho

Perez

 

 

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3 minutes ago, PhillippaT said:

We've got a week before and after, so fitness shouldn't be an issue?

Yeah I didn't mean in terms of just this one game, but the overall season. If we win this we'll be through to the 4th round and then we'll have 5 games in a 15 day period at the end of the month. I'd still go in with the mentality of winning it, but play the second string and if we lose just accept it and concentrate on the league and EL. However there's no reason our second string can't beat a team in the Championship.

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