I'm up early about to head off and hop on a plane over for this one. Expecting a very rested and rotated side. My chance to see Raheem Sterling in the flesh I'd imagine. Hopefully Ethan and Ben White will play today too. Tricky fixture given our midweek commitments.
Brentford at home at 5.30
Bring out the Butler.
Just said hello to Liam Brady on the plane.
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Hope it's a good game for you.
Reckon we will see the same level of rotation as we did at Everton. Something like:
Raya
White-Saliba-Kiwior-Zinchenko
Jorginho-Merino
Odegaard
Nwaneri-Sterling-Trossard
With Saka, Marti and Rice to come on for 45-30mins.
I see Tierney starting ahead of Zinchenko. The rest of that team seems logical.
Decent team with plenty of rotation. White is missing from the squad completely so Partey starts at RB. Hopefully we are in a position to take both him and Rice off early in the 2nd half.
White still not fit Could be n xt season for him to be 100%
Hate Partey at RB. Seems way too risky.
Cant risk Timber in this game. Partey is a risk because we kind of need him on Wednesday, but we really need Timber on Wednesday. Not really another option unfortunately.
Hope Nwaneri has been working on his off the ball movement.. it's been pretty poor so far and will continue to hold his massive talent back until it improves. I'm sure it will, just a matter of when..
Rotation is good, would've preferred Martinelli off too
Where's White?
naz Knocked in training.
Sloppy start, no rhythm.. Not surprising.
Think this will be a struggle and abit of an eyesore..
It could be unless we can get a goal earlier in the first half. Then the game may open a little.
Tierney with a stupid pass back to Kiwi, easily stolen,
Saliba and Kiwi look calm at the back so far.
Good work by Saliba and Partey there.