TheDevils2001
Player Valuation: £15m
i have been kinda worried about these 2 upcoming games with west ham, but thinking about it i shouldnt be.
granted , they have home advantage and we dont travel to london very well.
but comparing the 2 squads i think we have a lot more strength all over the pitch.
west ham lack a bit of quality in a lot of areas although they do have 2 or 3 rather good players.
i think the way to go at this game is 'all guns blazing ' ,
a win for us in the cup would send west ham into chaos and i think would get us a win in the second game also.
with baines and valente out ,moyes has a decision to make.
do you move lescott to lb and bring jag in the center ?
or do you move neville to lb. then who do you bring in as right back , hibbert or jags ?
i would go for 442
.............howard
hibbert yobo lescott neville
pienaar cahill carsley arteta
..............aj yak
subs ..wessels jagielka osman mcfadden anichebe
3-1 win to us.cahill lescott aj , and ashton(late consolation)being the scorers.
your concern of us travelling to London is an old story now, so far this season we have travel to Spurs and won 3:1 and to Chelsea and drew 1:1 with them, hardly seems we are having trouble when we are down in London?
It could be a different matter if we are suppose to play Arsenal down there though, we are talking about West Ham here man, they are nothing compare to Chelsea and Arsenal!
West Ham fans thinks they could beat us since they beat Blackburn 1:0 away from home, big deal, it was simply a tight game from both side and West Ham got lucky and went ahead and won the game, it's not as though Blackburn got beaten by couple of goals!
Bring it on West Ham if you score a goal, we would score 3 against you!
Unlikely we would be playing 4-4-2 from the start of the match when playing away, more likely it would 4-5-1 with a small changes due to Bains injure:-
.............howard
neville yobo jagielka lescott
arteta Osman carsley pienaar
...............cahill
............. yakubu
Neville has been doing pretty good with the wing support attack recently so playing behind Arteta again is the likely option, and jagielka should be given another chance to settle in the CB due to injure!
While Lescott would be given another run on the LB as his late run has been great lately, we seems to be able to depend on him to cover LB when needed!
Got to be honest I couldn't see this 5-man starting midfield change anytime soon unless there is a injure or Pienaar gone to AFNC, and it should become 4-4-2 sometime in the 2nd half with either Osman or Pienaar and Yakubu getting taken off for 2 fresh striker!
With Yakubu in such a fine form at the moment can't see him not starting in the Cup match, but at the weekend he might be given a rest on the bench!
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