Toon_NoMatterWot
Alert Team
Today sees the anniversary, so to speak, of the first game that Rafa took charge of for us.
That day saw a deflated and severely under prepared squad lose a closely fought game against the unlikely eventual league champions by one goal to nil.
Today will see a Leicester side being pitted against us without the player of their season that year in N'Golo Kante or their other influential midfielder in Danny Drinkwater as they both shifted to Chelsea. Their replacements not quite matching those moved on.
That said, maybe as many as eight of that title winning side will start today for them and for us, we will have three playing any part of the game at best.
Sold or out of the side that played that day we have Rob Elliot, Daryl Janmaat, Steven Taylor, Jack Colback, Vurnon Anita, Gini Wijnaldum, Moussa Sissoko and Aleksandar Mitrovic. Our subs that came on that day will also not feature in Andros Townsend, Seydou Doumbia or Siem de Jong.
They will be facing a different animal today.
My predicted starting XI sees us unchanged from last week.
That day saw a deflated and severely under prepared squad lose a closely fought game against the unlikely eventual league champions by one goal to nil.
Today will see a Leicester side being pitted against us without the player of their season that year in N'Golo Kante or their other influential midfielder in Danny Drinkwater as they both shifted to Chelsea. Their replacements not quite matching those moved on.
That said, maybe as many as eight of that title winning side will start today for them and for us, we will have three playing any part of the game at best.
Sold or out of the side that played that day we have Rob Elliot, Daryl Janmaat, Steven Taylor, Jack Colback, Vurnon Anita, Gini Wijnaldum, Moussa Sissoko and Aleksandar Mitrovic. Our subs that came on that day will also not feature in Andros Townsend, Seydou Doumbia or Siem de Jong.
They will be facing a different animal today.
My predicted starting XI sees us unchanged from last week.
Dubravka
Yedlin, Lascelles, Lejeune, Dummett
Ritchie, Shelvey, Diamé, Kenedy
Pérez
Gayle
Yedlin, Lascelles, Lejeune, Dummett
Ritchie, Shelvey, Diamé, Kenedy
Pérez
Gayle
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