ANDERLECT (A) THURS OCT 6TH

IronHerb

I think Cornet is out with a calf injury. Bowen should be available.

buffybegood

IronHerb said:

I think Cornet is out with a calf injury. Bowen should be available.

Moyes saying very little as usual about the injury, "He's not with us over here".

ASLEFshrugged

From Moyes press conference

Cornet has not travelled; "a little bit of a calf strain"

16yo DM Oliver Scarles has travelled and 17yo LB Regan Clayton trained with the first team.

From Belgian websites

CF Benito Raman available after illness

DM Marco Kana (inflammation?) and CM Adrien Trebel (shoulder) didn't train

17yo CF Lucas Stassin of the Anderlecht "Futures" trained with the first team, has scored 6 in 7 games in the Belgian 2nd tier

Vertonghen says ""I am already looking forward to next week, going back to London will be special". Bless

IronHerb

Is James a better finisher than Antonio? 🤔

alderz

Rice has posted a picture of himself on the plane with one of our youngsters I’ve never heard of - Ollie Scarles. Which sort of suggests he might be in the squad tomorrow.

buffybegood

alderz said:

Rice has posted a picture of himself on the plane with one of our youngsters I’ve never heard of - Ollie Scarles. Which sort of suggests he might be in the squad tomorrow.

Moyes on the OS:

“We’ve brought Ollie Scarles with us, who is 16, and I know Anderlecht have some young players too. It’s a great thing that young players get their opportunities and we always want to promote the younger players if they’re doing well.”

https://www.whufc.com/news/live-blog-david-moyes-and-declan-rices-pre-anderlecht-press-conference

iron_pants

I live in Canada too - moved to Oakville from UK about a year ago

ASLEFshrugged

Also spotted training with the first team, 19yo CB Levi Laing and 20yo DM Keenan Appiah-Forson

Interesting times...

Hamstew

I saw all these lads play the other night against MK dons

buffybegood

Areola, Coufal, Johnson, Dawson, Ogbonna ©, Emerson, Downes, Lanzini, Bowen, Benrahma, Antonio
Subs: Fabiański (GK), Randolph (GK), Cresswell, Kehrer, Zouma, Rice, Coventry, Souček, Scarles, Fornals, Lucas Paquetá, Scamacca

thornburyiron

Complete change of side to Saturday’s.

buffybegood

Looks very much like a back 3. A little surprised he's gone with a Downes/Lanzini CM pairing, hopefully they'll be good enough 🤞🤞🤞

Lukerz

Can’t remember the last time 3 at the back worked

steve

Did not expect that many changes

Whitehorsehammer

Amazing what you can do with a bigger squad.

Lukerz

I think it might be

Areola
Coufal - Dawson - Ogbonna - Johnson
Downes - Lanzini
Bowen - Benrahma - Emerson
Antonio

Whitehorsehammer

4 3 3, I reckon

Yeoldhammer

got to be 3 at the back with Coufal and Emerson as WB surely?

buffybegood

TV suggesting a 4-3-3, but we know that they often get things wrong.

COYI

MrsGrey

Seems so.

buffybegood

Johnson, with Coufal further forward, is on the right so must be a back 3 imo.

Pengeman

any good streams?

buffybegood

Pengeman said:

any good streams?

I use a paid for (but very cheap) stream service so I can't provide a free link I'm afraid.

buffybegood

We were opened up surprisingly easily there, but it looked like the shot might have been blocked by their own player

buffybegood

Decent-ish chance for us on the break, Bowen's pass just out of Antonio's reach, and Benrahma's shot headed over for a corner.

eskimoking

Dawson is awesome.

buffybegood

eskimoking said:

Dawson is awesome.

Yeah, calmly dispossessed Silva before he could get a shot away.

MrsGrey

Pengeman said:

any good streams?

See dedicated thread

eskimoking

buffybegood said:

eskimoking said:

Dawson is awesome.

Yeah, calmly dispossessed Silva before he could get a shot away.

Was being his usual magnetic self a few times before that on balls into the box too.

buffybegood

Anderlecht threaten on the break and get away a powerful shot that Areola deals with effectively if not prettily.