Can’t leave any space in behind so we have to defend really deep, stay disciplined and try and exploit their weaknesses. Defence is where they are weak. Gylfi nails his delivery and DCL, Holgate, Williams look to 
one in, that’s our route to glory
This means that we have to defend resoloutely and we are essentially going to let them have all the possession and frustrate the fuck out of them
They want us to A. Mess about with it at the back so they can steal the ball from us with the high press and B. Have a high line so that Salah and Mane can get in behind. We’ve majorly got to avoid this happening. It’s not going to be pretty and we will get shit from them and the press for playing 19th century football but it’s what riles this lot so its what we have to do
DCL has got to put an unreal shift in, he’s got to run the hard yards and feed off scraps. He’s got to hold the ball up when he can. Davies and Gana have to keep their discipline, we can’t have someone on a yellow with over an hour to play because these are the biggest bunch of whining Fanny’s out there, they know all the refs and all the dirty tricks in the book. Will be surrounding the ref at every opportunity
Rooney and Sigurdsson when they get the ball have to make their quality count. The 4 at the back, stay deep and launch it whenever in doubt, Cuco especially
Probably will keep the same lineup as the last 2 games. The only possible exception I think would be Schneiderlin in for Davies. Personally would stick with Davies though as Schneiderlin is in woeful form and his head seems to be elsewhere. Also Keanes confidence is too fragile to risk in a Derby game. The Holgate/Williams partnership has kept back to back clean sheets so we should persevere with that to give ourselves our best shot
It’s a horrible game plan I’ve outlined there. It’s designed to get a point, 3 if you get a lucky break. I am comforted by it at least being a game plan that Allardyce knows how to execute better than most
Pickford
Kenny Williams Holgate Martina
Davies Gana
Lennon Sigurdsson Rooney
Calvert-Lewin
Would be nice to think we could go toe to toe with them, but we’ve not got the starting line up or the confidence to do that right now. You would have to take a point if it was offered
one in, that’s our route to gloryThis means that we have to defend resoloutely and we are essentially going to let them have all the possession and frustrate the fuck out of them
They want us to A. Mess about with it at the back so they can steal the ball from us with the high press and B. Have a high line so that Salah and Mane can get in behind. We’ve majorly got to avoid this happening. It’s not going to be pretty and we will get shit from them and the press for playing 19th century football but it’s what riles this lot so its what we have to do
DCL has got to put an unreal shift in, he’s got to run the hard yards and feed off scraps. He’s got to hold the ball up when he can. Davies and Gana have to keep their discipline, we can’t have someone on a yellow with over an hour to play because these are the biggest bunch of whining Fanny’s out there, they know all the refs and all the dirty tricks in the book. Will be surrounding the ref at every opportunity
Rooney and Sigurdsson when they get the ball have to make their quality count. The 4 at the back, stay deep and launch it whenever in doubt, Cuco especially
Probably will keep the same lineup as the last 2 games. The only possible exception I think would be Schneiderlin in for Davies. Personally would stick with Davies though as Schneiderlin is in woeful form and his head seems to be elsewhere. Also Keanes confidence is too fragile to risk in a Derby game. The Holgate/Williams partnership has kept back to back clean sheets so we should persevere with that to give ourselves our best shot
It’s a horrible game plan I’ve outlined there. It’s designed to get a point, 3 if you get a lucky break. I am comforted by it at least being a game plan that Allardyce knows how to execute better than most
Pickford
Kenny Williams Holgate Martina
Davies Gana
Lennon Sigurdsson Rooney
Calvert-Lewin
Would be nice to think we could go toe to toe with them, but we’ve not got the starting line up or the confidence to do that right now. You would have to take a point if it was offered
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