Matchday 1

[Rough_Edges]

Leicester City vs Tottenham 12:00 AM 23/08

Soon…



Anyway, we’re still an hour away, but let’s take a look at the squad:

Well, there we are, the Tinkerman at work!

4-4-2:

Kasper
De Laet-Huth-Morgan-Schlupp
Albrighton-King-Drinkwater-Mahrez
Vardy-Okazaki

Which can become 5-2-1-2:

Kasper
Albrighton-De Laet-Huth-Morgan-Schlupp
King-Drinkwater
Mahrez
Vardy-Okazaki

Or 3-5-2:

Kasper
De Laet-Huth-Morgan
Albrighton-King-Drinkwater-Mahrez-Schlupp
Vardy-Okazaki

Biggest surprise is the inclusion of De Laet into the XI, and a lack of Wasyl altogether., I know there was talk about Nugent on the way out (surely just rumours and nothing more?) but the lack of Nugent concerns me. Maybe it is just for sub purposes, Hammond is our only other recognised midfielder other than Kante, and we certainly can’t have Nugent in centre midfield (though that would be extremely interesting).

Sorry Jatz, it doesn’t look like Chilwell will get his gig this time around. Then again, kid’s only 18, he’ll come on soon enough.

Strategy here is to keep Sunderland guessing and run the defense rugged with Okazaki and Vardy. Then come about 60 mins, we release Kante and Kramaric and finish them (Ulloa would be the third, though I'd really like a Fuchs/Ulloa combination). I expect formations to be very fluid, so we change on the fly to give us maximum flexibility. Expect to see a highly energetic game from us, which will last the full 90 mins as we bring on more pace and clinical finishing to get the job done.

Last year, nil-all was the flavour, time for us to gut some Black Cats.

GO FOXES!

Great post.

Love reading passionate posts not about Ars/Liv/Chel/MUN

Good luck tonight. One you should be taking 3 from.

 

[LFC2010]

McCarthy to start instead of Hennessey

Dat Palace team... no Bolasie, no Bamford. no gayle.

 

[SloaneysDanger]

Did Kane come off at half time? Lol.

 

[Scotland]

I am the same age as Bastian Schweinsteiger. He may have 395 major trophies but I've aged better.

 

[Stevi_Tigers]

good debut darmian an Italian in our back 4 makes me happy

 

[TooUglyForFugly]

Norwich's lineup is ...

Ruddy
Whittaker - Martin - Bassong - Brady
Howson - Johnson - Tettey - Hoolahan - Dorrans
Grabban

Wisdom - Gerome - Hooper - Rudd - Redmond - Bennett - O'Neil

 

[tigs2010]

Tipped united by 2. FFS campaigners

 

[Stevi_Tigers]

I am the same age as Bastian Schweinsteiger. He may have 395 major trophies but I've aged better.

except he's banging ana ivanovic

 

[Rough_Edges]

I have no confidence in Ashley Young.

I don't think he's a great player but he gets in dangerous positions a lot.

Unsure if it's because oppositions don't rate him or he makes good runs.

A mixture of both, I think.

 

[Donnie Darko]

Schwein looking porky..
I can see why Bayern finally offloaded him .

 

[Lockyer24]

If we hold on this hasn't been a vintage win but its been smart. Better than last year

 

[Rough_Edges]

Did Kane come off at half time? Lol.

Spurs have been unbelievably poor since the 21st minute.

 

[TooUglyForFugly]

Did Kane come off at half time? Lol.

Just needed to check - Nope. All three subs done and he wasn't one.

 

[Cristiano Ronaldo]

Omg Valencia will cost us 3 pts

 

[Zidane98]

Schwein looking porky..
I can see why Bayern finally offloaded him .

Looks far older than 31 with the grey hair too!

 

[Rough_Edges]

That's the kind of thing Chadli does.

Forget he's playing then all of a sudden ball falls to him in the box.

 

[windyhill]

De gea who ?

 

[Rough_Edges]

First bit of feeling/excitement all game.

 

[Temploar]

Romero > De Gea

 

[juice t]

Romero actually holding his own

 

[FAITH]

SAF thinking 'WTF has LVG done to my team?'

 

[Temploar]

Ever since Darmian came off...

 

[Rough_Edges]

lol it was a decent save but let's not go overboard....

 

[Temploar]

SAF thinking 'WTF has LVG done to my team?'

 

[Rough_Edges]

SAF thinking 'WTF has LVG done to my team?'

Still ?

Can we not move on from this at some point?