I have a feeling that de Boer will stick with the 5-3-1-1 that performed better against Liverpool. I'd still prefer us play 433 or 4141 but that me.

I think de Boer will select

Hennessey
Townsend (Rwb)
Fosu- Mensah
Tomkins
Dann
PVA (Lwb)
Puncheon cm
luka cm
RLC Cm
Mcarthur cam
Benteke st

What line up, do you think de Boer will go with?

Andy Johnson Magic, He wears a Magic Hat
When he Sees the match ball, he says he having that
He scores one with left foot, he scores one with his right
And When his playing Brighton, He scores all f***ING Night!

More of a "hopeful" team rather than an actual prediction but here goes.

GK - Speroni

RB - TFM
CB - Dann
CB - Tomkins
LB - Schlupp

CM - RLC
CM - Luka
CM - Mcarthur / Cabaye

RW - Townsend
ST - Benteke
LW - Lokilo / PVA

Same team for me, although wouldn't be surprised to see Cabaye start in place of Townsend.

If it's true that FdB is going to revert to 4-3-3, does this not leave us a bit heavy in the CB department (TFM, Dann, Riedwald, Tomkins, Delaney, Kelly)? And might that mean we will need to shift a couple to bring in St.Sakho?

If we do start with 4-3-3 then I imagine it might look like this:

But I would like to see:

TFM and PvA are both very quick, RLC can drive through the middle, McArthur and Townsend both have goals in them and the triangle of Luka, RLC and Cabaye could be very effective. The big issue with this might be McArthur's ability to play on the left, but he is definitely not one to shirk his duties if he is asked to play a different position.

RLC out injured this week

Damn.

Edited by Rudi Hedman (25 Aug 2017 11.58am)

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