All the usual stuff here and don't forget to make your pre-match prediction.
Hopefully he has learnt from his mistakes and sticks with the winning formula of two up top. Be rather stupid of him not toI expect NC will go with Yates on his own up front. Hope I’m wrong.
The CB position is also a worry. Ballard better be ready - we can’t have Husband in there again.
Source?We could possibly see CJ Hamilton on the bench
Hmmm We will see. I reckon he will go Yates on his own.Hopefully he has learnt from his mistakes and sticks with the winning formula of two up top. Be rather stupid of him not to
Ive said this all alongThe main thing I absolutely do not want to see is Matty Virtue on the right wing again.
He isn't even in our best 3 central midfielders. He isn't a right winger. I thought it took him long enough to figure out Turton wasn't as good as Gabriel but half way through the season he seems to have got it.
Whilst he has a great finish on him, he just gives the ball away constantly.
Starting Virtue at right wing is severely limiting the team and putting it off balance.
Play Bez or Embleton. Not Virtue. Or if you're that desperate, play Gabriel ahead of Turton. But please no Matty right wing.
I always feel most of these forecasts are a triumph of hope over reality.
Can see thatMaxi
Gabriel
Ballard
Thorniley
Hubby
Embleton
Stewart
Virtue
Kaikai
Madine (Simms if still injured)
Yates
Simms, Turton, Garbutt, Mitchell, Dougall, Robson, Lubala
Settle for a 1-1 draw
You think he will drop Dougall for an away match? I don't, especially with the defence weakened. More likely he will drop Virtue for EmbletonMaxi
Gabriel
Ballard
Thorniley
Hubby
Embleton
Stewart
Virtue
Kaikai
Madine (Simms if still injured)
Yates
Simms, Turton, Garbutt, Mitchell, Dougall, Robson, Lubala
Settle for a 1-1 draw
Really don’t understand the obsession with finding a place for Virtue I must miss what most others see. We’ve far, far better players than him. Dougall is twice the player and will surely certainly start tomorrow.Maxi
Gabriel
Ballard
Thorniley
Hubby
Embleton
Stewart
Virtue
Kaikai
Madine (Simms if still injured)
Yates
Simms, Turton, Garbutt, Mitchell, Dougall, Robson, Lubala
Settle for a 1-1 draw
That’s where I’m at as well.Expecting a defeat tomorrow if I’m being honest. We’re still short of key men and those who are back are short of fitness. Portsmouth are a fit squad who will be playing for Jackett and unlike us they like to shoot from distance and that means however good we’ve been defensively at times it won’t be all that useful tomorrow. It’s a long long trip too which never helps. I’d take a draw right now. If we do lose it’s not the end of world. Still loads of football to be played.
That’s what I’m expecting. Hope I’m wrong. Would love to see 4-4-2 and a really attacking team sent out.Think it might be back to 4-2-3-1
watch the inside training video.Source?
Maxi
Gabriel
Ballard
Thorniley
Hubby
Embleton
Stewart
Virtue
Kaikai
Madine (Simms if still injured)
Yates
Simms, Turton, Garbutt, Mitchell, Dougall, Robson, Lubala
Settle for a 1-1 draw
It will be difficult to keep a close eye on Clarke-Harris as he's playing over a 100 miles away for Peterborough!If my memory serves me correctly, they gave us a tough test at Bloomfield Road, and it was really TJH who was the key to opening them up. They weathered the storm of our attacks and broke forward when possible.
I honestly feel they will expect us to play the same game, defend, break and try to snatch a goal. I feel if we were to attack them from the off it would probably unsettle them as they would not be set up for that kind of game, certainly not in the first half, and we will have to keep a close eye on both Clarke-Harris and Marquis who have 29 goals between them.
We managed to beat the unbeatable Posh on their ground, so why can't we be Pompey's Vesuvius?
But, who knows how our coach thinks?