Starting this now as I'll need something to read during the four hour Maypac build up.
With Crawley needing the win it should make for an open game, beyond that I just can't make my mind up on a score prediction.
The game will be won and lost in the centre of midfield.
Having lost Anthony Wordsworth, one of the few players of quality in their squad they are looking quite slow in the middle of the park with Fowler and Elliot.
For me this represents a big opportunity for Fleck and Ward to dominate the ball and provide us with the level of control we need to assert in this game.
Lewis Young (Brother of Ashley) represents another weak point in their team. Naturally a winger and a pretty ineffective one at that, he is being used at right back by Saunders. I'd be looking for whoever starts up top, to pull off onto him and test his defensive qualities.
Approach this game in the correct manner and there is no reason why we should lose it.
For me:
Burge
Willis
Martin
Johnson
Stokes
Ward
Fleck
Odelusi (Phillips? Or is that being too negative)
Maddison
JOB
The German/Tudgay (Tudgay if 100% fit)
Maddison won't start.
4-1 us to send crawley down, none of this soft stuff wishing well. Kill or be killed!!
Magnitude my arse, Maddison is clearly good enough to be playing in games at this level. The reality is that the 'magnitude' of this game doesn't suit Barton or Nouble.
Whether its right or wrong, Mowbray will go with experience tomorrow over ability. I'm sure of it.Magnitude my arse, Maddison is clearly good enough to be playing in games at this level. The reality is that the 'magnitude' of this game doesn't suit Barton or Nouble.
It would be a brave (or do I mean foolish) decision to start Maddison and Odelusi. Maddison seems to only do well when he's given 15mins to play, and I can only really recall Odelusi playing well for 20 mins in total. German fella is improving, I'd give him another go.
It would be brave (or do I mean foolish, yes I think I do) to play Barton in what will most likely be a kick, rush and fight type of game. Frankly I see no reason to give Nouble anymore game time in a City shirt.
'Barton's tall?' Is that really something anyone would want to put forward as an argument for him playing? You might as well say 'he's got a beard.'Hard to argue against dropping Barton, I suppose if I had to say something positive it's that he does move into space and try and get hold of the ball, oh, and he's tall. I think he'll give Nouble another chance, surely he'll realise he's running out of chances and will put some real effort in.
Lewis Young (Brother of Ashley) represents another weak point in their team. Naturally a winger and a pretty ineffective one at that, he is being used at right back by Saunders.
Yep. Very much normally the case and unlike Charlton, Crawley's league future is on the line too.I fear this will be our last game in League 1 for several years. This is exactly the kind of game that we don't turn up for. Hope I'm wrong.
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