Burnley V West Ham, Sunday 16th Aug, 16:00 - Match thread
So here we go, the first of many league games this year, and it'd on the box too.
Hopefully with Burnley selling half of their squad we have a good chance of all three points
COYI
Hopefully with Burnley selling half of their squad we have a good chance of all three points
COYI
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Walker-Peters - Mavropanos - Kilman - Scarles
CM - CM
Bowen - Pablo - LW
Taty
8/11 sorted, just decisions over the last 3
They had a bit of trouble replacing for Scott Parker, were rejected by Craig Bellamy and Rob Edwards before finally landing Genk’s Nicky Hayen 4 weeks ago
Jaidon Antony (£17m Brentford), Martin Dubravka (free Spurs), CB Maxime Esteve (£27.3m RB Leipzig) and LW Loum Tchaouna (£20m Coventry) have all gone
DR Congo’s CB Axel Tuanzebe rejected a new contract and has been linked with Hull, Everton, Lazio and the Saudi league
LB Quilindschy Hartman and CM Lesley Ugochukwu have both left on season long loans with Espanyol and Galatasaray
CM Florentino was a Burnley player for 53 days, they had him on loan from Benfica last season, signed a permanent deal in June but he joined Ipswich last week
Top scorer Zian Flemming is still there but has been linked with Leeds
Another face that won’t be around is club captain Josh Cullen, still recovering from an ACL suffered in December
They have given Ashley Barnes a new one year contract, he’ll be 37 in October, plus they’ve signed 23yo DM Ugo Raghouber (£3.5m Lille) and 36yo GK Ben Amos (free, Port Vale) as back up for 22yo keeper Max Weiss
Otherwise it’s the same squad we beat 3-2 at home and 2-0 away last season
They played Notts County (newly promoted to League One) in the Carabao, like us they went behind in the first half, Flemming equalised shortly after half time but despite dominating the game they failed to score again and eventually won on penalties.
Hayen picked a 3-4-2-1
Weiss
Walker Worrall Humphreys
Sonne Hannibal Raghouber Larsen
Edwards Ramsey
Flemming
One faint ray of sunshine in an otherwise gloomy East Lancashire sky is the return of FW Zeki Amdouni who missed most of last season with an ACL. He was called up by Switzerland for the World Cup, made three substitute appearances and scored in the penalty shootout against Colombia.
He didn’t play in the pre-season but came on in the second half yesterday
Jane Austen says "win, baby, win"