It was an important three points last week \u2013 albeit the performance wasn\u2019t necessarily something to write home about. With three new additions this week the team announcement at 1.45pm is going to be eagerly awaited. Will any of the new signings come in? This is how I think we could line up at the GTech Stadium.<\/p>\n
A clean sheet last week, and I thought he looked confident and composed on Sunday, especially in the latter stages when he was put under a bit of pressure.<\/p>\n
Defence: Thomas Meunier, Nordi Mukiele, Kevin Danso, Reinildo<\/p>\n
Meunier has been excellent in his first two games, and Nordi Mukiele reminded everyone \u2013 not that many needed reminding \u2013 of just how good he is at centre back; so those two should keep their places. Reinildo\u2019s under pressure from the now available Methalie, however our young Frenchman will likely have to settle for a place on the bench, given Reinildo\u2019s form so far. The one place in question for me is the left sided centre back spot. Ballard\u2019s looked unfit\/injured\/out of form so far, and struggled playing on the left of the two \u2013 we all know what a great defender he is when he\u2019s on song, but with Alderete and Danso competing for a place it\u2019s hard to make a strong case for Ballard to keep his spot. Given Alderete\u2019s fitness struggles, I think we\u2019ll put Danso straight in for this one. Danso played and scored for Spurs in the league cup last week, so he\u2019s fit and ready \u2013 which should get him the nod.<\/p>\n
Midfield: Trai Hume, Enzo Le Fee, Granit Xhaka, Noah Sadiki, Nilson Angulo<\/p>\n
There\u2019ll be some debate in Le Bris\u2019s mind about whether to throw Fofana straight in or let him watch the first hour from the bench. While writing this I\u2019ve added and removed his name three times\u2026 but I\u2019ve got for Angulo to start this one. Nilson has come in for some ridiculous criticism over the past couple of games (why do we need a player to get stuck into all the time?). Yes, he\u2019s not played fantastically well in the first two games, but he\u2019s certainly not alone \u2013 he\u2019s a young lad who\u2019s shown he\u2019s capable of some good stuff. Let\u2019s get behind him. I think he\u2019ll start, and depending on how the game is going either he or Hume will be replaced by Fofana around the hour mark. This game is a good one for Hume in midfield, while the rest of the line up pretty much picks itself.<\/p>\n
I thought Isidor should have started last week, but got that wrong \u2013 and this is the type of game for Brobbey. He\u2019s not really got going yet, so hopefully this is the game he begins hitting his straps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was an important three points last week \u2013 albeit the performance wasn\u2019t necessarily something to write home…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1187624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[10],"tags":[9991,391,79,16,15],"class_list":["post-1187623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-match-previews","tag-opinion","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117217697896873985","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1187623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1187624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1187623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1187623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1187623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}