Daisuk
Nayim
Everyone has to post up their sensible team selections (and perhaps a bit of reasoning behind it), then they can enter the slag the formation/selection conversation, with their own plan noted, but of course still the luxury of hindsight.
I hardly post my personal team selection beforehand, but I'd start N'dombele in there instead of Sissoko, for instance (should be a given, given that he's one of very few players in our squad that can actually get past a line of pressure). I'd also not start Aurier, and probably not start the same formation we keep on failing with time and again. There's no point playing 3 at the back with two wing backs when the back three isn't working particularly well, and the full backs are ... well, not performing at all. The system we've had success with demands a lot of our full backs, and we've seen for the past calendar year that when our full backs can't perform, we won't perform as a team with that formation. So I'd probably go for a formation where we'd depend less on our full backs giving us attacking depth and try a 4-4-2 or some variation of it, to get an extra man in midfield and play wider with our midfielders.