I thought Van Hecke started a bit slow and gave the ball away cheaply a few times, plus he never passed out to Gross in the first half when he was completely free! That was remedied in the second half and I thought he defended very well.
Sarmiento flatters to deceive for me, he tries to do his...
-------------------Steele
Veltman---Van Hecke----Dunk----Lamptey
------------Gross----Caicedo
----Buannotte----MacAllister----Sarmiento
-----------------Ferguson
Mitoma, Welbeck, Undav, Webster and some youngsters on the bench.
We haven't beaten Stoke away in a very long time, just hope our players won't be complacent as this is a tricky tie to get through. All it needs is for them to play for penalties or try and score from a set piece and we could be out! Anyway I'm sure after Charlton we will treat this tie with the...
Sanchez
Lamptey Veltman Dunk Estupinan
March Caicedo MacAllister Mitoma
Gross
Welbeck (if Fergie not fit)
Tough to leave out Sarmiento however I wouldn't be surprised if De Zerbi actually plays Gross at RB (inter-position with March)with...
Sanchez - £50m
Estipunan - £70m
MacAllister - £85m
Caicedo - £75m
Mitoma - £90m
De Zerbi & back room staff - £30m
Total summer clear out as we didn't make Europe comes to = £400m
Might as well go the full hog! :LOL:
It's so frustrating if we don't get another forward in, we have Fergie who we have to manage his time otherwise he'll be burnt out so won't play constantly, we have Welbeck who is good, but nowhere near prolific and won't be able to play consistently, and Undav who isn't quite at the level...
Well they might be quiet now, just wait until they (inevitably shitehouse) a win against us next month, then they will all be on here giving it the large'un
The key to our success will be when the senior players like Dunk/Gross/Lallana are no longer around. We need to have a solid group of players who do stick around and are good enough for top 10. All very well in selling off top young players but if we don't have a quality foundation of the team...
This tit for tat is not going to sit well with Bloom I should imagine, with dirty laundry being aired in public. That is not the Brighton way. Not sure De Zerbi should be sharing half of that stuff in the press conference, however refreshing it was to hear.
It should be a straight forward win however with our lot not playing for a month and Charlton just getting their new Manager, then it could be a bit tricky! Still think we'll win but I think it'll be close.
It's going to feel bitter up to Mon/Tues next week with a small chance of snow at this stage. There is a LP in the Atlantic that is causing the models problems as they don't know how to handle the battleground, as in how far up over the Country it will go, if at all. Take this mornings runs for...
All we can say with some degree of confidence, is that it'll turn drier over the coming days and turn colder as winds switch to an easterly direction. Anything from weekend onwards is still to be firmed up. However, it's nice to be viewing colder charts during a winter month instead of a Spring...