No. He'll be injured again by Monday. If he can stay fit and avoid illness for the next couple of days I guess he will make the bench. But I'm not arsed if he isn't.
Big game for Gomez. He looked decent when he came on for Nat. He's hopefully not lost any of his pace ... its a big part of his game. If matip or konate were fit I'd be tempted to move Joe to RB and Trent into midfield. That's for another day.
I'd like to see Henderson alongside fabinho here to give us more protection. I'd like to see Harvey allowed to play further up and find pockets to get on the ball and create for the front 3. We're in desperate need of creativity in midfield. Give him abit of license when wd have it.
Fabio looks a prospect but is still settling in and will be an option from the bench.
At the very least on Monday it would be nice to not give up the first goal again. We need to stop doing this. A clean sheet would be great.
Utd will predictably up their game. Varane in for that carthorse should make them stronger. They have Ronaldo there and some pace up top. So we need to be focused and expecting a reaction.
Diaz should take some confidence from his goal and Mo likes playing against these. Hopefully we take our chances. Against Palace we didn't take some early chances and if we had we'd have got the 3 points.
We will be 7 behind city come Monday. A defeat would put us below utd. These scenarios are unthinkable and make this a pressure game, even more so than usual against these.
We have to win.
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