Southampton 1-5 Chelsea

[Stats 7,059]

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 1,492]

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 15]

Find his face (Anthony Taylor) very distasteful 😂

[DH1988 1,284]

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

[Special Juan 27,432]

If Nkunku starts he will continue his scoring run

[Pizy 18,376]

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?

[Special Juan 27,432]

KDH should not even be at the front of Maresca's mind, he has been truly awful everytime he has played, we cannot carry passengers

[Bluepower777 15]

From what I seen Lavia is overated or maybe it's because his so injury prone that he can't find form but anyway I dont see what impact he has on games. 

[Mário César 975]

38 minutes ago, Bluepower777 said:

From what I seen Lavia is overated or maybe it's because his so injury prone that he can't find form but anyway I dont see what impact he has on games. 

Physical presence

[ZAPHOD2319 4,493]

Nkunku to start?

 

[Bluepower777 15]

2 hours ago, Special Juan said:

KDH should not even be at the front of Maresca's mind, he has been truly awful everytime he has played, we cannot carry passengers

I disagree,  he has not been given chances against top teams, he is generally highly rated by other teams. I think his time will come.

[ZAPHOD2319 4,493]

 

[OhForAGreavsie 5,895]

4 hours ago, DH1988 said:

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

Can't see why the club would want to give clues about the line-up. If there is any signalling going on then surely this is more likely to be a bluff. Even then we'd have to ask what's the point? Saints are very unlikely to believe that we've leaked that Christo will start so if anyone is fooled by a bluff, it won't be them.

[ZAPHOD2319 4,493]

We better not fuck this up.
 

 

[ZAPHOD2319 4,493]

Ten players out, two doubtful for them.

[NikkiCFC 7,971]

6 hours ago, Pizy said:

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?

In Conference League. And if not Lavia it will be Enzo and Moises. KDH is more attacking midfielder he has no business playing in pivot in PL. Against shepherds from Armenia ok. 

[lluubbeenn 144]

What a cb pairing…

[Vytis33 1,144]

Sanchez dropped