As bonus games go, I am not sure how best to approach this one... Some awful part of me wants to put our stock into the Burnley game and play damage limitation against Swansea, but mainly I want to fckin go for it and if we the gamble pays off we can take the momentum into Burnley whose small squad should struggle more than us to cope with 3 games in a week.
With no Zamora it should make things easy - 5 man midfield, pace in the team, solid central midfield. I would also put a winger one the left, for pace on the counter and to give more natural support to Traore who will get massacared by Dyer or Routledge without help. I would definitely bring Dunne back in too, he should be fresh and able to deal with Bonys physicality.
--------------------Green----------------------
Isla-----Dunne-------Caulker------Traore
----------------Barton---Henry-------------
Vargas--------------Fer-------------Hoilett
----------------------Austin------------------
McCarthy, Onuoha, Hill, Mutch, Kranjcar, Phillips, Zamora/SWP
Fer to drop in to a central 3 when not in possession. It's vital Barton and Henry especially are massively disciplined when it comes to denying space and time to Sigurdsson and Shelvey, both are creative and deadly from 25-30 yards. |  |
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