Starting Xi Predictions

Who's starting the season for the first few games? I'm going with this:

Foster
Dawson - Kab - Wilmot
Ngakia - Chalo - Clevs - Estupiñán (nickname req)
Pedro - Gray - Quina

Can anyone get closer than this?

 

I thought Gray was injured

 

Gray is out for the first few weeks. Confirmed on the club website yesterday. Hopefully Suarez starts in his place. JP's place also in question; could be him, TDB or Sema. Other than that I reckon the remaining 9 players are nailed on.

Foster
Dawson - Kabasele - Wilmot
Ngakia - Chalobah - Clevs - Estupiñán
Pedro - Suarez - Quina

 

Didn't catch that, we've got loads of players out now...

 

Not sure who replaces Gray but otherwise same as Saturday.

The bench will be interesting, might we see a few of the big names Sarr, Capoue etc?

 

The Xi dynasty ended its rule of ancient China approx 1000 years BC. Would be hard to find a starting XI that has'nt been dead for thousands of years.

Id still give them a chance against Warnocks' Boro though.

 

I believe you mean the Xia? Xi is the dude who runs the country at the moment

 

Yeah, this. Hope Suarez plays and he's not flogged, as it's useful to have two strikers with a bit of pace and two big lads (first world problems compared to some in the Championship I know!). Seen it suggested that in the drive to keep Sarr, we might sacrifice Suarez, but ideally we'd keep both. Sarr can play centrally, or he can play out wide with a system that uses something resembling classic wingers

 

An interesting poll would to be guess how many of the starting XI tomorrow evening will take the field for our last league game of the season......

 

With the mixing and matching, we could be playing with any number of systems for each individual game. How many games will each player play might be more useful?

 

Perv?

 

Foster

Kiko Cathcart Dawson Masina

Cleverly chalobah pereryra

Peneranda Deeney Murray

 

It's exciting just to speculate.

How many times did we wonder what the line up would be last season? Hardly ever. Yes we hoped for changes. For the young guns to be given a chance. But it was always Doucoure, Deeney etc etc as the "safe" options.

Now we will see what these young, enthusiastic, talented young players can really do.

I'm full of excitement and anticipation (and slightly nervous). Very different to the emotions I felt before games last season!

 

Not sure why we have to put our pronouns in message titles now, but fair enough.

I think this looks about right:

 

It's going to be a bit of culture shock to some of our younger/inexperienced players, hopefully they're prepared to get kicked all over the pitch and have been told to not lash out.

 

We commited 27 fouls against Spurs. At least they know how to kick the opposition too.

 

Bachmann
Ngakia Wilmot Kabasele Dawson Estupinan
Cleverley Quina Dele-Bashiru
Pedro Perica

 

First few games may be a bit soon, but eventually I'd like to see something along these lines:

 

Wot, no Mapps?

 

Just as a side note, when do we have to submit our registered player list?

 

Yeah I call them Xi because I was on personal terms

 

Gomes deserves a year of being an automatic starter as a send off.

 

Yesterday. No more players before the end of the transfer window fml.

 

Erm...

 

26 of them were Phillips though.

 

Surprised to see so few teams without Sema in them, surely as long as he didn't pick up any knocks while away with Sweden he'll start (and he's probably fine given that he was hardly used). He's one of the few senior and tough tackling midfielders we currently have available.

 

What's the quarantine rules for players coming back from International duty?

I get that Cathcart went away with NI so they would have been in a bubble and I guess [nearly] all of their squad play in various parts of the UK. NI's second match was in the UK so not a problem.

 

Pervo? Pervy?

 

I don't think they have to quarantine, for instance Kante seems to be available for Chelsea despite just returning from France which is on the UK's quarantine list.

 

He was indeed mediocre in the Prem, though I think a lot of that was because he lacks attacking threat as a winger. However, work-rate and tackling are two of his strongest points and he's just had a season of being a first team starter in Serie A at CM when supposedly he did pretty well.

He wouldn't be my preferred choice as an attacking winger or a PL starter, but as a CM in a midfield 3 he offers something which our current other options don't, and I think he'll look a good player in the Championship.