A defence worse than ours is something to behold.
Reece James in midfield? Would have thought 3-4-2-1 would be more likely.

Yes of course their will be juggling with the formation,but I will be disappointed if their are not a few goals tomorrow !

I'd want 433 specifically with Jorginho playing DM, bar Kepa's inability to make saves (the little rascal lol) it would've produced two wins vs. Arsenal this season. But I imagine Lampard's gunna stick with 343 & the same team as United/Wolves.

Can see the match going similar to the Emirates game. Arsenal lead early as Arteta knows how to handle 3 CB's who struggle to play out, Lampard will change it at H/T (or sooner), we dominate the second half & if we get the goal we'll go onto win the match either in normal or extra time.

Yes DA, he will I hope move James to R/B and put Dave at L/B, and bring in Jorghi to mid field .

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Yes DA, he will I hope move James to R/B and put Dave at L/B, and bring in Jorghi to mid field .
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He tends to keep a winning team on in big matches, I wouldn't expect it. But it would equally be fitting if he ended the season with a tactical swerve so who knows?

If I see 343 I won't be confident. Arteta's got something about him, he'll anticipate & counter it.

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Well agst Arsenal away he started with a 3 4 3 line up that didn't work well at all and changed it after 35 minutes to eventually win the game.

Chelsea
1Arrizabalaga
2RüdigerBooked at 34mins
15Zouma
29TomoriSubstituted forLampteyat 59'minutes
28Azpilicueta
7KantéBooked at 30mins
17KovacicSubstituted forHudson-Odoiat 70'minutes
33EmersonSubstituted forJorginhoat 34'minutesBooked at 55mins
19MountBooked at 30mins
10Willian
9Abraham

then for the 2 -2 draw he went 4 3 3

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Caballero
James Christensen Zouma Azpi
Mount Kante Kovacic
Hudson-Odoi Giroud Pulisic

I don't think he will start with 3 at the back, mainly because of what happened at SB.

Therefore i expect to see our starting team as








Caballero

James Rudiger Zouma Azpi

Kante Kovacic Mount

Willian Giroud Pulisic

Biggish

The counter argument to that would be Arsenal have setup differently since restart but I don't think it'll effect the reason 343 won't work against them. Unless Christensen's in (and having a good game) to help us play out effectively we're too easy to nullify at source with a 343 & Arteta knows what he's doing.

If we did play 343 I'd wanna see Azpl-Christensen-Rudi (the 17-18 combo) with a pivot of Kova-Kante & turn it into a battle of who has the legs. But even then I'd still be questioning why not 433 instead.

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I don;t think AC has a prayer of getting select to be honest, likewise Kepa.

Neither do I & he shouldn't. Hence 433

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comment by Devil D.A. (U6522)
posted 2 minutes ago
Biggish

The counter argument to that would be Arsenal have setup differently since restart but I don't think it'll effect the reason 343 won't work against them. Unless Christensen's in (and having a good game) to help us play out effectively we're too easy to nullify at source with a 343 & Arteta knows what he's doing.

If we did play 343 I'd wanna see Azpl-Christensen-Rudi (the 17-18 combo) with a pivot of Kova-Kante & turn it into a battle of who has the legs. But even then I'd still be questioning why not 433 instead.
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In fairness didn't take the change in the Arsenal set up into consideration, so good point DA.However, i still think we will go 4-3-3-

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If it is 4-3-3 I actually think Mount will play wide and that one of Barkley/Jorginho will be in midfield
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Yep, I could see that. But I'm 90% sure he'll stick with the United/Wolves team.

Whateber the formation, if fully fir, the first two names on the team sheet should be Azpi and Willian

It will be so interesting to see who Frank picks,and what formation he uses !
Mind games from both managers,will definately be the order of the day !

Also, I don't know what the injury sit is !