I'm assuming Sema has a knock or fitness issue. If so, being away with the Sweden soon isn't going to help, especially as they play 2 days before the game against Derby. Sierralta just completely dropped or is he injured also?
Aluko starting for Reading is a big surprise for me. He's been probably their worst player this season imo.
It is nice to see Ivic make the odd change without feeling that players have been dropped due to a poor performance. We will need a full squad, and we need to share it around a bit.
Sierralta looked horrendous against Newport. Wouldn’t be surprised if that was the first and last time we’ll ever see him play for us.
I take it Sema's knock wasn't too bad if he made the bench. Possibly a late sub depending on how things are going. Amazing how much we seem to miss a commanding midfielder such as Hughes. Quina has been hit and miss and Chalobah has the odd good game. Dele Bashiu is developing well though.
Hope that DB carries on where he left off. Interesting to leave Cleverly on the bench. Kiko back in the fold as well.
Pretty pleased Chalobah isn't injured, when he went off last week clutching his hamstring I thought he'd be out for a month or so at least
I thought that was Perica? (Or have I been whooshed? - I've not kept up with the thread) Just a quick word on Tom Dele-Bashiru. Last season he hid in U23 matches or, at least, he wasn't able to affect the games to any degree and would go missing. This season he's not only come back looking far more physically ready but appears to want the ball more while looking comfortable while on it. I'm very impressed in the overall change and growth he's made from last season to this. How good is it to see a player actually develop at the club!
Concerned King Ken is out of the squad, must be an injury of some sort. Hope to **** it's not a transfer away! Edit, ignore this, he's on the bench, all is good
He definitely has bulked up, looked very strong against L*ton even if he gave away some silly fouls early on. Looks like he's playing further up the pitch today, interesting, I'm not sure if I've seen him play there before
They mentioned it in comparison to the old black Toshiba kit. Which I very much liked. This effort isn’t bad. Funnily enough in that season of the Toshiba kit I think we had a one off third shirt as well, it was red and we wore it the once. Not sure who it was against though, my memory fails me.
We did indeed have a red kit, it was exactly the same as the black kit in trim. Sadly I have it along with virtually every kit we had since 94.
Incredibly cheap goal to concede that. I just don't really understand what the point of 3 centre backs is in a game like this where they only have one centre forward. Not done enough going forward and concede on their first chance.
