Burnley away sun 30 dec 2018 14:15

imagelost

This is turning into same season
Full ups and downs
Pelly is the man
Another away win please
It’s yours folks

Hammerwombat

Nailed on 3 points.
Put your pension on it.



;whistle

Cuz1

I will deffo be going for another 2-1 to us

alderz

Lawro says 2-0 Burnley

ASLEFshrugged

Thanks, Lawro, an away draw minimum for us.

Yeoldhammer

Burnley look woeful I can imagine this will be a very dirty game.

grey_til_I_dye

They're one of the dirtiest teams in the division, imo.

Hammerwombat

Maybe starting with AC would be useful. He’s a physical presence and is not concerned about knocking a few heads ;ok

grey_til_I_dye

alderz said:

Lawro says 2-0 Burnley

To be fair to him, he does make a reasoned case for going 2-0 to Burnley...

One of their (Burnley's) problems is that, whoever plays up front, their strikers are all much of a muchness. In the past at least one of them has been in the kind of form to nick them some goals but at the moment none of them look much like scoring.

IronHerb

Diop with two own goals it is then. ;doh

alderz

I'm not sure how is best to tackle this one. Burnley will want to make it scrappy, and the temptation to deal with that would be to get Carroll in to deal with the centre backs, but players like Tarkowski, Gibson and Mee can deal with balls into the box. What they can't handle is pace and movement.

I want Cresswell to stay in, as I think Gudmondsson is their best player and I don't trust Masuaku against him. If Zab is fit I'd want him back in at RB and Antonio to go up front I think. I also think that Noble should come back in, probably for Obiang.

So I guess I''ve talked myself into:

Fabianski; Zabaleta Diop Ogbonna Cresswell; Snodgrass Rice Noble Anderson; Perez; Antonio

IronHerb

I'd have Obiang in for Perez to start with otherwise that team works for me, unless Arnie is ready of course.

alderz

Herb

I thought about that, but I think that a midfield three against Burnley is a bit negative given the way we've been playing, particularly with it being Obiang. Burnley have been playing with a back 5 in their past three games too, so I think we will need a bit more creativity on the pitch.

Pearces_Left_Foot

Burnley will be time wasting from before the start I fully expect kick off to be late ;lol

PrestonHammer

They'll be thinking if we extend the warm up by 10-15 minutes, the first half will only be half hour long. ;lol

WHU_Champo_league_in_7_years

Don't wanna be a downer but I would take a draw

Think a few of the lads looks shattered by the end of yesterday's game....and given our current injury list there really isn't much that we can do to freshen it up

Cresswell has to start for me though, Masuaku is too much of a liability. Let's hope Zab has shaken off his virus.

Fab
Zab Diop Ogbonna Cressy
Snodgrass Rice Noble
Diangana Antonio Anderson


Actually think Burnley will like to play against Carroll, they are much more uncomfortable against pace/movement so would go for Diangana, Antonio and Anderson up front

IronHerb

But did you notice last night that after AC had bished and bashed a couple of opponents, no more than he was getting by the way, he started playing deft lay offs and showed good touches. I think Pelle has been working on him. ;cool

thornburyiron

Merse says 3-1 to us.

Cuz1

I tend to think at least Mersons predictions are based on form not hatred towards us

Fortuneseeker

Pellegrini maintains unbeaten festive run
Pellegrini has never lost a match in the Premier League played between 26 December and 4 January. The win over Southampton means the Chilean, manager of Manchester City from June 2013 to June 2016, has now won eight and drawn two of the 10 games he has been in charge of during the festive period.

Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp has won eight, drawn one and lost one in the same timeframe in England, with ex-QPR and Tottenham boss Gerry Francis also never beaten in this post-Christmas period.

Lets hope he can maintain his record.

;pray

Jorderz_Moyes_will_be_Moyes

Even though I think we’re a much better side, I worry that fatigue will catch up with us here.

We have basically no possibility of rotation. Several players, particularly Anderson, looked shattered at the end of the game last night.

Hopefully if we have most of the ball we can make Burnley do a lot more running, but I’m expecting this to be a struggle.

SuzanneClaret

Away Win ;wahoo

MrsGrey

jorderz, but a number of players haven't been playing 90 minutes every game. Realistically, although they might be shattered by the end of a match, if they have had their minutes managed in the previous weeks/games, they should be able to recover OK.

I'm not actually all that worried.

Anderson, Snodgrass, Rice are the ones I think might be carrying the biggest 'fatigue' burden.

BubblesNeverDies

Jorderz - what's with the negativity? ;biggrin

We're on a roll, get with it, ride the wave.

Oops, sorry, been watching too American shows. ;lol

MrsGrey, Snodgrass is like the Duracell bunny, don't think we need to worry about him.
Rice has got youth on his side and he's so clever and skilful I think he can avoid injury.
Anderson is the only one I worry about, in that he's making himself a target for all the cloggers.

IronHerb

Thing is you should look shattered at the end of the game. "Leave it all out there" as they say.

imagelost

Hammerwombat said:

Nailed on 3 points.
Put your pension on it.



;whistle

;hmm pension you say my 1st pension due next week
Can have on tick
Due to the fact that government change the rules on second state pension ;cheers

Jorderz_Moyes_will_be_Moyes

Fine. Nailed on away win. Happy? ;biggrin

Lukerz

Difficult to select a side for this given how well we performed last night. Plenty of the lads were fresh after not getting many minutes & the side played very well. Do we keep Antonio at RB? Do we stick with Obiang & Cresswell? Do we stay with Perez up top with Diangana on the right?

I think I would go:

Fabianski
Zabaleta - Diop - Ogbonna - Cresswell
Snodgrass - Obiang - Rice - Anderson
Antonio - Carroll

We can't get involved in playing into Burnley's hands but they haven't exactly had a standard this season to 'play in to'. They have been abject.

I think a two of Carroll & Antonio will have the strength to bully back at the CB of Burnley, but also cause trouble with a mixture of pace & height. I know Carroll is probably an ideal CF for Burnley to face, but I don't think him being present will impact our play. I think we will play the same regardless & when one of those balls is put into the box or pulled back, he'll be there.

Cuz1

Can’t believe you would pick a player who you describe as having a awful/ average game on the starting line up again

Lukerz

Well he's not playing RB is he?

I am surprised so many thought he was excellent. I watched the game back & he was almost caught on 4/5 occasions in his own half & must've given the ball away half a dozen times in comfortable possession. Not to mention a couple of really poor decisions to shoot when we had dangerous play on the edge of the box. As I said he had a good run for the second goal.

I think if we are going to use him we use his unpredictable/bulldoze approach up the pitch where he can do damage.

Cuz1

Think we all know he’s not a rb think he’s said that himself what I find amazing his people on here slate him for helping out when zab pulled out slotted in a unfavourable position and set up the winning goal that if had been any one else would be hailed for its vision and to think he’s been injured dropped and played out of position it’s no wonder he seems uncertain sometimes of his actual role for me he’s a team player and a crucial one at that