if King is going to be fit, this would 100% be my team:
........................Friedel.....................
Walker.....Kaboul............King.....Ekotto
Lennon......Parker.........Modric.......Bale
.................van der Vaart..................
......................Defoe........................
Our strongest possible back five now in my opinion. All five have performed consistantly well all season and have been brilliant individually. Only Ekotto and Kaboul played in the 5-1 demolition at White Hart Lane and even then Kaboul got on the scoresheet, having King back and especially Walker will be a great help with pace down the right.
We also didn't have Parker in that game and we missed a defensive minded player, him and Modric in the middle all day. Lennon and Bale on the flanks (Yes Bale, FLANKS!!!), is such a threat, without Richards (who will probably play in the end), these two switching could be dangerous. Can't wait to see Lennon running full pelt at either Clichy or Kolarov as well as Bale and Zabeleta.
Van der Vaart obviously starts, off of our top goalscorer in Defoe though and not his usual partner in Adebayor due to the absense of him. Defoe has enough in his locker to cause the likes of Savic and Lescott problems. He's caused better defenders problems in his career, I think he'll score for us at the weekend.