Leicester City may be
struggling at the bottom of the league with no wins in 10 or more games but
they’ll be looking to change that at home against the Champions.
Another brief one
folks…
In between work and Christmas-related stuff it’s proving a
little difficult to find too much time to ‘post’ at the moment. So with that
excuse, I give you another ‘straight to it’ predicted line-up and outcome for
tomorrow’s fairly rare, 3:00pm (GMT) Saturday KO. This one has a ‘stick or twist’ element to it.
v Leicester City
4-4-1-1 / 4-5-1:
_______________Jovetic_______________
________________Silva________________
_________Fernandinho________________
________________Hart________________
Stick: Joe in net
Twist: Recovery
most likely fully complete, I get an awful feeling that our manager will be
tempted to give Clichy
Stick: Still
showing signs of naivety and rawness against Roma at times, I was tempted to
suggest that Pellegrini my play Demichelis
instead of the French powerhouse. However, I just wonder if Martin’s legs might
be in need of a rest after Wednesday’s exertions?
Twist: Kompany to
return.
Twist: I hate to
suggest that Manuel might almost completely change a back line that’s only
conceded 1 goal in the last 4 games…but that’s what my ‘spider sense’ is
telling me. Zaba to be rested too for the ‘itching to get a game’, I’m sure,
Bacary Sagna.
Stick:
Fernandinho is improving game on game and will probably get the nod ahead of
Fernando. And although…
Twist: …the pair
had a decent game together against Roma, Yaya to step back into the team after
his European suspension.
Stick: Nasri is
having one of the best runs-of-form I can recall and so must surely start.
Stick: Likewise
Milner…although he may have to shuffle over to the right, replacing Navas who
didn’t exactly have a good one in midweek.
Twist: The
magician is back! David looked lively as always when he came on and with no Aguero at the moment, he’ll fit in perfectly in an
advanced position in a 4-4-1-1. I just
hope his return doesn’t see a downturn in Nasri’s performance and form – we’ve
seen that before when both play…
Twist: If our ‘Engineer’
does his maths correctly then he must surely see that the more fluid,
hardworking and creative remaining forward is Stevan and not Edin. Surely…
Strong bench, as it often is these days, and we might need
to change it to break down a very determined, I’m sure, home side eager to stop
the rot.
Result? I’ve
rarely been so torn in my thinking between a vey close game that we might have
to settle for a very frustrating point against the bottom side…and a
‘confidence is high’, absolute rout against Nigel Pearson’s men.
So I’ll go for an in-betweener – a scarily close one that we
will eventually win by changing and ‘mixing it up’ throughout the second half.
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