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Vic Buckingham
Right. No silly games now. BRAVE VILLA just got battered 8-0 by a bunch of rent boys from West London. If we are SERIOUS about getting top four this season, these are the sort of games we should be winning. Away at Aston Villa, back at the place that pretty much cost us third place last season due to the fact we brought on PARKER FOR DEFOE late in the game.
It's also a place which produced one of our best ever performances in the last 10 years when we beat them 1-2 when we were down to 10 men a few years back. van der Vaart our Christmas hero then. Let us hope we have a new Christmas hero come boxing day when we can get all three points at Villa Park and put the pressure back on some of the other teams.
Is the exact team I would play. Unless we have Assou-Ekotto back. Then I would put him at left back and put Vertonghen in the centre replacing Caulker. I think Sigurdsson deserves a start, he's got an assist when coming off the bench recently against Fulham, almost scored our second against Everton which would have put the game to bed, should have got an assist against Swansea and if it wasn't for a great save yesterday would have scored a winner in our last game. I think he should start with Adebayor off of him. Unfair on Defoe? Not really. It's the Christmas period where rotation is key.
With Arsenal not playing, this is the perfect opportunity to put pressure on there games by going three points clear of them. West Brom are away at QPR who need points. Chelsea are away at on form Norwich who have beaten Arsenal, Man Utd and us at Craven Cottage this season. Everton are at home to Wigan, but I've seen worse shocks.
Lets do this guys.
COYS.
Edit:- I did the title in capitals but for some reason it has come out like that. No idea why?
It's also a place which produced one of our best ever performances in the last 10 years when we beat them 1-2 when we were down to 10 men a few years back. van der Vaart our Christmas hero then. Let us hope we have a new Christmas hero come boxing day when we can get all three points at Villa Park and put the pressure back on some of the other teams.
LLORIS
WALKER - DAWSON - CAULKER - VERTONGHEN
LENNON - DEMBELE - SANDRO - BALE
SIGURDSSON
ADEBAYOR
WALKER - DAWSON - CAULKER - VERTONGHEN
LENNON - DEMBELE - SANDRO - BALE
SIGURDSSON
ADEBAYOR
Is the exact team I would play. Unless we have Assou-Ekotto back. Then I would put him at left back and put Vertonghen in the centre replacing Caulker. I think Sigurdsson deserves a start, he's got an assist when coming off the bench recently against Fulham, almost scored our second against Everton which would have put the game to bed, should have got an assist against Swansea and if it wasn't for a great save yesterday would have scored a winner in our last game. I think he should start with Adebayor off of him. Unfair on Defoe? Not really. It's the Christmas period where rotation is key.
With Arsenal not playing, this is the perfect opportunity to put pressure on there games by going three points clear of them. West Brom are away at QPR who need points. Chelsea are away at on form Norwich who have beaten Arsenal, Man Utd and us at Craven Cottage this season. Everton are at home to Wigan, but I've seen worse shocks.
Lets do this guys.
COYS.
Edit:- I did the title in capitals but for some reason it has come out like that. No idea why?