We need to be careful we don’t change too much at once, we’ve seen before that having too many changes can render us virtually toothless with no cohesion, flow or balance, no doubt Burnley wil bring the double decker with them so we really need to find a way thru them, there are a few good ideas above with different X1’s with varying changes, so this is my effort, fwiw;
Alisson
Trent Matip Phillips Robbo
Fabinho
Shaqiri Thiago
Minamino
Salah Mane
Bench; Kelleher, Milner, Hendo, Ox, Bobby, Jones, Origi
Providing of course Joel makes it he sits in with Phillips, if not I’d play Hendo next to Phillips and not Fabinho, I want him in his normal role protecting the back four, Shaq & Thiago creating with Taki linking up with Mane & Mo,
Hendo & Phillips will have enough to cope with whatever Burnley try to throw at us, especially with Fab in front protecting, harsh on Hendo if Matip makes it but something has to give in midfield to allow for the changes required,
I agree with most that we need to tweak here & there, but with caution, I know it’s only Burnley but we’ve had our fingers burnt before with too many changes, we need a win, goes without saying, but we f***in do, for confidence alone if not hanging on to coat tails !
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