Maybe Firmino will get longer run.
I'd still expect him to be getting 20-30mins for a few games, it's been well reported that he's a few weeks behind the rest of the lads in terms of fitness. I'd love to see him starting too but there's no point risking injury, especially in a game we should be able to win without a full strength team.
It's not a 'must win' but it is one I expect us to win. To have confidence I'd want to see us playing the 4-3-3 or 4-3-2-1 that we finished against Stoke, if we open up with that 4-2-3-1 then I really will have to question Brendan's thinking. Thankfully though I fully expect a 4-3-3 or similar variation.
With the run of games we have coming up after this anything but 3 points could be quite painful so let's get these in the bag and give ourselves a little breathing room, because even the most optimistic of us can't see us getting 3 points in all these away games coming up (unless you're a little biased or DeLuSional of course
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