[Albion] Teams for Chelsea and Villa

[SeagullsoverLondon]

Obviously, we know RdZ will rotate on Wednesday night, but how weak will he go? We then play Villa on Saturday lunchtime, and assuming that is the priority, I can see a fair number of the U21 team playing or on the bench v Chelsea.

Chelsea on the other hand don't have a game until Monday night, need some confidence, and have no European games coming up. I expect them to go strong.

As much as I want to stuff Chelsea (for obvious reasons) is this the game we have to sacrifice for the greater good? I think is is and expect to see Hinchelwood, Hinchy, O'Mahony etc given some sort of run out.

 

[Horses Arse]

I'd hope so, PL games the most important and I hate seeing us lose at Villa. Happens too often

 

[deletebeepbeepbeep]

I doubt we will see any U21 to be honest. I imagine it will be something like this to start with.

Bart
Veltman
JPvH
Igor
Lamptey
Baleba
Dahoud
March
Fati
Adingra
Ferguson

 

[Rogero]

I think he will go fairly strong . He hated losing at Charlton last year . Igor and Van Hecke in the middle , Lamptey, Buenotte,Dahoud,etc

 

[spence]

I think he will go fairly strong . He hated losing at Charlton last year . Igor and Van Hecke in the middle , Lamptey, Buenotte,Dahoud,etc

He hated losing at Charlton because they are a league 1 side and the performance was pathetic

 

[Uh_huh_him]

Bart
Milner
Webster
Igor
Lamptey
Baleba
Dahoud
Lallana
Fati
Adingra
Pedro

 

[Zeus]

Let’s be honest even a weaker side for Chelsea won’t be that weak and likely to contain Baleba, Fati, and March or Adingra. Nine changes yesterday showed how strong the squad is now. The challenge is getting all the newer players understanding what they need to do. Will be Interesting to see what side Chelsea put out as all I heard on the radio was bleating they have an injury crisis.

 

[El Turi]

There’s no point risking anyone on Wednesday who will start against Villa. The game means a lot more to Chelsea than it does to us.

 

[Goldstone1976]

Nine changes yesterday showed how strong the squad is now.

Umm, the nine changes produced a first half that was truly dire. The more RdZ undid the changes the better we got.

 

[scooter1]

I doubt we will see any U21 to be honest. I imagine it will be something like this to start with.

Bart
Veltman
JPvH
Igor
Lamptey
Baleba
Dahoud
March
Fati
Adingra
Ferguson

This looks pretty strong to me, but I doubt he'll want to risk Fati. RdZ is definitely seeing something in Bounanotte that the fans are not, so it maybe that he gets another chance

 

[Simster]

As weak as possible for the Chelsea game please.

1) I don't give a shit about the league cup.
2) Poch needs a win against a top 3 side for some job security. He's bang average and we don't want Chelsea sniffing around RDZ when they finally realise this.

 

[junior]

Impossible to predict line ups these days, but I think the following will definitely play.

Fati
Igor
Van Hecke
Dahoud
Perpion
Hinshelwood
Lamptey


I've also got a feeling the 3rd choice keeper might get a game.

 

[The Grockle]

Villa is our toughest game of the season so far. I'd be happy if he picked a team that left us at our strongest for Saturday with one eye on Marseille.

October looks incredible difficult for us, if we can come out of it with some points on the board in Europe, relatively injury free and anywhere near the top six it would be some achievement from RDZ and the team.

 

[MJsGhost]

As weak as possible for the Chelsea game please.

1) I don't give a shit about the league cup.
2) Poch needs a win against a top 3 side for some job security. He's bang average and we don't want Chelsea sniffing around RDZ when they finally realise this.

I think Pochettino needs to keep his 1st XI fresh for the relegation scrap

 

[Albion Robster]

Impossible to predict line ups these days, but I think the following will definitely play.

Fati
Igor
Van Hecke
Dahoud
Perpion
Hinshelwood
Lamptey


I've also got a feeling the 3rd choice keeper might get a game.

Perpion is out on loan at Cheltenham.

 

[martin tyler]

Steele
Hinshelwood
Van hecke
Julio
Lampety

Balaba
Lallana
Bounette

March
Perdo
Andringa

Bart
Webster
Fati
Welbeck
Billy G
Estupinan
Mitoma
Few u21s

 

[Zeus]

Umm, the nine changes produced a first half that was truly dire. The more RdZ undid the changes the better we got.

It wasn’t a weak team though. It was last seasons defence, Ferguson up front with Welbeck CAM, with MOTM Gilmour and an impressive Adingra in midfield.

 

[Neville's Breakfast]

We are already rotating and it’s fine. Like the other teams in Europe we have a big enough squad to cope with multiple changes between games without the need to play lots of untried players at once.

 

[Nobby Cybergoat]

The starting point is to pick a team to play Villa ....

-------------Steele
Veltman Webster Dunk Estupinan
-------Gilmour --Dahoud
---March ---Pedro -----Mitoma
-----------Welbeck

Then out of these players, think about who's played a lot of minutes, who's gone to the internationals, who's been returning from injury and who is irreplaceable and take them out of the side to play Chelsea. I'm removing Estupinan, Gilmour, March, Mitoma and rotating Welbeck

So my team to play Chelsea is ......

--------Verbruggen
Veltman Webster Dunk Lamptey
-----Beleba-- Dahoud
----Adingra Lallana Pedro
---------Ferguson

All the time I've got my subs lined up for the hour mark

Igor for Dunk
Fati for Ferguson
Then later Buonanotte for Pedro

I want my back 4 as intact as possible. But mainly I want a team out there capable of winning this match. We want this trophy.

 

[Guinness Boy]

I'd take it easy on a little mid table club like Chelsea. It's their cup final, after all.