Southampton 1-5 Chelsea

[Pizy 18,848]

Rotate Neto and Sancho for this one and rest them for Spuds. Perhaps start Cole on the bench and bring him on if needed. Other than that I’d start our strongest midfield and defense again. We have to win these games against sides we’re massively superior to.

The likes of Felix & Nkunku are perfect to rotate in here and will be desperate to show they should be starting more often in the league. 

[Bluepower777 31]

Would like both to start too, they don't weaken the team.

[King Kante 1,643]

On 02/12/2024 at 13:33, Thor said:

I'm hoping Badi gets the start over Tosin. 

I've been impressed with his last two performances. Super composed on the ball and looks solid defensively. 

 

Like a lot of our players - I think some were quick to judge and he is actually beginning to turn things around. Could be wrong, but this is the time to prove himself.

Well it could just be that Badi got made to look bad by Disaster when he came back from a bad injury in a team that was wide open to the counter with Poch's tactics. 

Tbf to the Badi, he looked good when he first came in. It could just be his injury took a bit of time to recover, Poch's tactics didn't suit him and then Disaster dragged him down which wouldn't be that much of a surprise when we think about the level of that guy. 

That said, he will need to take his chance this time around. All we need from him for the next month or so is mistake free football. If he does that then he good for a squad position as I suspect we go for a RCB in Jan/Summer. 

As for this game, Soton have picked up some form. They were a ref not giving them a deserved pen away from beating the Dippers and had the better of Brighton in their last game away. Luckily they have a few suspensions and injuries but this is the exact type of game Poch last season would've slept walked us into a draw. 

[DH1988 1,346]

9 hours ago, ZAPHOD2319 said:

 

In what world is this sensible.

[Vesper 30,081]

9 hours ago, ZAPHOD2319 said:

 

what the fuck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BlueCo needs to go ape shit on this

[King Kante 1,643]

2 hours ago, DH1988 said:

In what world is this sensible.

In the world where people who make decisions think everyone secretly wants the Dippers to win the league. 

Edited December 4, 2024 by King Kante

[Stats 7,135]

11 hours ago, Pizy said:

Rotate Neto and Sancho for this one and rest them for Spuds. Perhaps start Cole on the bench and bring him on if needed. Other than that I’d start our strongest midfield and defense again. We have to win these games against sides we’re massively superior to.

The likes of Felix & Nkunku are perfect to rotate in here and will be desperate to show they should be starting more often in the league. 

Palmer has no reason to be rested/rotated. He is only playing once a week until now as he has been left out from the group stages of the Conference League and also sat out the last international break. So he is one player I would imagine would defo start as he until now has been having a full week's rest.

[King Kante 1,643]

54 minutes ago, Stats said:

Palmer has no reason to be rested/rotated. He is only playing once a week until now as he has been left out from the group stages of the Conference League and also sat out the last international break. So he is one player I would imagine would defo start as he until now has been having a full week's rest.

Or if he has a knock. However, equally it is correct we should not be leaving him out for Spurs and I would imagine that he would also expect to start if fully fit. 

My team would be: 

Sanchez 

Caicedo Badi Colwill Cucu

Lavia Enzo 

Palmer Felix Neto

Jackson

If Neto is still a bit iffy after his knock then one of Mudryk or Sancho. Personally, I really want to see Palmer, Felix and Neto as a front three (so Palmer can play more in the final third) so Noni is only not being overlooked for Mudryk owing to him having to play off the right. 

[Bluepower777 31]

Find his face (Anthony Taylor) very distasteful 😂

[DH1988 1,346]

Chelsea tweeting a photo of Nkuku so hopefully means Jackson is benched, yellow card away from being suspended.

[Special Juan 28,088]

If Nkunku starts he will continue his scoring run

[Pizy 18,848]

Thinking about it more, I highly doubt Lavia will play here. Forgot that Maresca has said that he likely wouldn’t be playing multiple games in short periods much like Reece and Fofana.

So I wonder if we may see KDH being given his big chance here. If Maresca, who knows his game better than anyone, can’t trust him against the bottom of the league side then when can he?