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If we see the line up and Fabinho is playing center back, this place is going to go bat**** ha ha
He must have seen the light from the RB Leipzig game surely... he can't ever go back to Fabinho at CB... just use the CBs we have and make the midfield fire again... we'll win more games than we lose doing that.
Our next 5 league games are Wolves, Arsenal, Villa, Leeds, Newcastle...... win most of them and i think we will be in a good position to have a crack at top 4. That takes us to end of April.
I can see Leicester ****ting themselves. They have Man City and West Ham in the next few weeks coming up. And a tricky run in with United, Chelsea and Spurs their last 3 games.
West Ham have Arsenal, Leicester and Chelsea all before the end of April. I think they are looking good but surely that is just a purple patch for a few months. If they stay lucky with injuries then you never know but I would be surprsed if there are not 4 teams better than them by the end of the season.
We have had a terrible couple of months but I believe that we can string a good few performances together and make top 4 by the end of the season...... if we win tonighT, then it is possible that Hendo will be back for our next league game. A good April and all of a sudden our season might still be good.....
Maybe. But at least we are starting to see rotation amongst quality players.
Obviously our defense is ****ed until next season. But if Henderson comes back after the international break, then going into the final stretch of April and May, we will have Fabinho, Henderson, Thiago, Gini, Jones, Milner, Keita - as well as Oxlade and Shaqiri (either of who might not play again this season because we no longer need them) all available for the 3 midfield positions.
And with Salah, Mane, Jota, Firmino and Origi all available for the forward positions, then hopefully Jurgen can rotate without a big drop off.
When Henderson is back again, the temptation for Jurgen will be to play either Hendo or Fab in defense again. I hope he doesn't though. The defense and midfield looked so much better with Fabinho in midfield against Leipzig. I think if you added Henderson in there too, it would be even more solid all over the pitch.
I wonder if Jurgen would be tempted to play a diamond formation in some games. Fabinho sitting with a central duo of Thaigo and Henderson. With either Naby or Gini in the advanced position???
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