Here's the team I would like to see for this game, it's similar to what we had in the second half against norwich and I think it can work well in an away game.
4-4-2
.............Friedel
Walker...Gallas....Vert....BAE
Lennon....Sandro....Demb....Bale
...........Ade.......Defoe
Friedel is inform, Lloris is inexperienced.
The back 4 is the best we have available until kaboul is fit.
Sandro will cover dembele and let him get forward but also dembele will track back and put in a tackle. Naturally Bale and Lennon will add pace.
Defoe and Ade could work well together in time, Defoe plays better in a 4-4-2 and him helping Ade out can only be a good thing, I think they can get goals.
Bench:
Cudicini/Llorris
Caulker
Naughton
Livermore (to shut up shop)
Sigurdson ( for a creative spark)
Dempsey (can play out wide or up top, if we need a goal)
The bench looks pretty stong and only Livermore has a lot of caps for spurs so this bench would make sense because they are inexperienced. Caulker and Livermore will be left out when Parker and Kaboul are back but to be fair they are young. I just hope AVB isn't stuck in his ways and realises this is the best we can get out of these players because we won't play well in 4-2-3-1 or 4-3-3 because we are missing that creativity now Modric and VDV have gone and you need that with these formations and Sigursson is struggling to fill these boots but he is young and will improve.
Enjoy the international break.
COYS!
Reading Away
posted on 3/9/12
thanks goodness Dembele is no Diaby, can you imagine?!
posted on 3/9/12
Verm
Sure, Depmsey is average that is why he finished up joint 4th top goalscorer last season. And Siggy is young and could go a long way. Go away you mug.
posted on 3/9/12
I think where we've gone wrong so far is the fact that we have tried to fill that Modric shaped whole with Livermore. Why are we playing a DM in the spot where we had our main creator? It obviously won't work.
We should get Livermore on the bench where he belongs, decent squad player, nothing more. Stick Dembele in his place, and there's no reason for switching back to 4-4-2, as long as Ade is fit and ready to start.
Let Lennon and Bale know that Dempsey will replace either of them should their form not pic up rapidly. They both need to know the level of performance they have made this season so far is not good enough. I still maintain that we should have prioritised a pacy replacement winger amongst other things, but sod it, Demps will have to push them.
And Gallas/Friedel ain't broke, so FFS stop tring to fix them people.
posted on 3/9/12
And Verm, your marquee signing, your RVP replacement Giroud, has looked freakin dreadful, so do one.
posted on 3/9/12
And Gallas/Friedel ain't broke, so FFS stop tring to fix them people.
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posted on 3/9/12
'Can't believe you guys signed Dempsey, he is the definition of average'
I know for a fact most of your fans wanted him, podolski and carzola look like the only ones that can get goals. Were as we have defoe, adebayor, bale and dempsey who are guaranteed to get goals and probably dembele too.
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posted on 3/9/12
Caulker is our youngest CB and our idiot fans are booing the team off at half time when the score is 0-0. Do you really want to expose the lad to that?
posted on 3/9/12
Exactly Tdog