Hard to be optimistic for this after the last couple of 'performances'. Let's hope they actually turn up for this one and maybe we can give ourselves a chance at a result, eh?
Let's keep it respectable and not have any injuries. Anything less than -3 gd is a bonus. Maintains the gap ahead of Muff.
**** off. What has Mariappa has done to earn that? Score an own goal that could relegate us? Duck out of a block on Chilwell? Been League One standard for years?
Pulisic up against Mapps. Pearson is doing what all other managers have done on their way out, play a ridiculous team and give the owners the finger.
Only logic is to keep compact. Hughes will tuck in. Only Sarr and Femenia (overlapping) will venture wide. Nothing quite like straw-clutching!
They’ve dropped Alonso with Sarr up against him could of been our only hope Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Pathetic lineup. Reeks of "Wave the white flag". Pearson really has given up, won't change it up even if it's a nailed on loss. At least give us a chance to try something new. Goofball incoming.
Are we just working through Pozzo Plan A, B & C and the basis of all three is players in unnatural positions and Deeney up front. Seen a version of this under Gracia. Anyway, not sure if it’s the utter desperation talking but against ALL sense and logic I have a weird gut feeling saying it’ll be 2-2 tonight. In reality we don’t stand a chance of even having two shots on target. And to make it worse the strong and powerful Reece James has come in which means Azpi on the left which means no liability Alonso for Sarr to attack Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
So we saw the way Pulisic dogged West Ham on Wednesday, and how they were undone by the pace and direct running of Antonio, and decided from it that we should play our worst centre back as a right back directly up against Pulisic and move a central midfielder to the wing, whilst keeping our slowest, least mobile forward as a lone striker in a role he's not even really capable of playing. ******* marvellous.
Absolutely sickening to see Mariappa out there. Did Kiko get injured? Just shows how terrible our squad is. They’re going to break us. Edit: **** me. Just seen that Kiko has gone left-back. Instantly assumed he was crocked when I saw Mapps in the team.
I genuinely think that Pearson has put Chalobah in because of the bottom rung straight out the book of cliches “He’ll be motivated to prove a point against Chelsea”. I cannot see any other reason for his sudden change of heart towards him tbh. Laughable! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Saying all that, there’s not many if any combination of players that Pearson could’ve picked that *wouldn’t* have bothered me. Anyway, a fresh 90 minutes! Anything can happen COYH. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
I hope there’s a brilliant strategy behind that team because on paper it looks ridiculous. Maybe it’s simply that Pearson has also captained Pulisic in his FPL team?
This line-up also shows what sort of team we will have in the Championship. Not Cucho, Estupinan and Suarez. No, they aren't nearly over the hill. All we will have is another 1 added to the horrifically high average age of this mess.
I think it's his revenge for the Play Off loss and the fact we show it to him before every single home game.
Jesus wept That team selection is an absolute horror story. Hate to say it but can see us getting totally humiliated tonight Has NP lost the plot? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Pearson's a chancer and this formation is evidence that he has no idea. Get him out and get some foreign nomark in that I can at least be excited about for a month until he still plays Deeney upfront on his own. This selection is pathetic and shows how far we have fallen. And are we really going to play the one single player we have who has looked fit and up for it since the restart our of position on the left wing? That has to be a mistake. God I hope loads of people get to quote this in 3 hours laughing at me.
