Phillips
Matthews – Lockyer – Pearce – Sarr – Purrington
Ledley – Gallagher
Morgan
Bonne – Leko
Substitutes Bench: Maynard-Brewer – Solly – Oshilaja
– Williams – Doughty – Taylor – Pratley
Charlton Athletic v Hull City
Friday 13th December 2019 … 7:45pm
Kick-Off
Referee: Andy Davies (prev this season: Wigan)
Introduction
Form has unsurprisingly nose-dived in recent months,
key players have been missing leaving the Management team with an almost
impossible task to get results with barely any tools – Tuesday night saw
Huddersfield earning a late winner and Social Media going crazy with fans
losing patience. With a takeover still waiting to go through and no business
that can be done until January, this is a time when everyone needs to work
together!! - We won’t always have sunny days at Wembley so people must take the
rough with the smooth, we will recover with Bowyer still at the helm, it may take
a few more weeks but we will remain at this level!!
The Opposition
Name: Hull City (13th) | Manager: Grant McCann
Ground: KCOM Stadium
Grant McCann is going to be one opposing manager
visiting the Valley this season looking to put things right after a crushing
end to the 2018/19 season – As Manager of Doncaster Rovers his team weren’t expected
to be part of the promotion chase and were written off in the Play-Offs, a
spirited comeback at the Valley that Tuesday night almost completed the job and
whilst Doncaster didn’t earn promotion to the Championship; Grant McCann (after
also missing out with Peterborough) finally did.
It’s certainly been an indifferent season thus far
for the Tigers!! – Our opponents have had short sets of bad results yet have
also gone on mini-runs; mid-table would be a respective place for a team who
have twice graced the Premier League since our own demise – In terms of player
threat you need to look no further than Jarred Bowen; the young Striker will no
doubt be in hot demand next month and with 14-goals already this season, will
surely move on to bigger and better things – Kamil Grosicki certainly shouldn’t
be overlooked, the Polish midfielder is the creative force for Hull, both
players will surely need to be made less effective should we want to achieve
anything from this game!!
Charlton Team
News
Fans may be getting tired of the same old soundbites
from Bowyer and can claim they’re excuses as much as they like but at the end
of the day the injuries have hit us and have hit us hard!!...
Quite simply the midfield has been decimated, the
likes of James Vennings called up too soon as quite simply there is no one else
- We all know that Jonny Williams is likely to return to the bench this Friday
night but like Lyle Taylor it’ll be some time before he’s ready to start - Fans
were mystified as to why Vennings was called upon against Huddersfield, with
yet another short turn around for this Friday night you’d expect the likes of
Albie Morgan and Joe Ledley to come into contention, hopefully with the fresh
legs to make the midfield battle a little less one sided for once!!
Comments
Phillips
Solly Lockyer Pearce Purrington
Pratley Gallagher
Leko Morgan Doughty
Bonne
With Williams and Taylor off the bench for the last 20 mins.
I'll get Solly's face tattooed on my arse if he starts two games in quick succession when we've another RB available
Do like the team though
Phillips
Matthews Lockyer Sarr Purrington
Pratley
Gallagher Morgan Ledley
Bonne Taylor
AMB, Solly, Pearce, Oshilaja, Williams, Doughty, Leko
Leko's pace off the bench will scare them, Jonny to get 15 mins
Dillon
Solly Lockyer Pearce Purrington
Ledley Gallagher Pratley
Leko Bonne Doughty
Back to a flat back 4, Ledley and Pratley CM/ DM , Gallagher AM. Leko wide right coming in, Dougthy on the opposite flank.
4231 effectively, still struggling for players. Midfield really needs more energy but I don't want to chuck Morgan in the deep end as I don't think he does enough. Obviously if Taylor is up to it straight swap with Bonne, play them together when the rest of the squad is getting back together.
That's it
(last night when Taylor came on, given the weather conditions and how shakey 'Udders looked at times, I thought it was worth sticking Taylor/Bonne up top and trying a bit of route one for them to run onto. Would have been ugly... but might have worked)
We'll be lucky to see 30 second half minutes from Taylor.
The amount of ground he'll need to cover is asking too much of him too soon on his comeback trail.
More likely bench.
He can only do 45 minutes - if we start him at all, it'll be as sitting DM and then Pratley will take over 2nd half.
Actually Prats could do with a bit of a rest.
If it's 4 across the back, Bowyer would have pondered over resting Pearce because it's a big ask to expect him to play 3 games in 6 days. But on the other hand, there's his battling qualities and leadership - and we need that. Or if Hull are quick on the counter, he might just go for the quicker Nabster and his distribution skills.
I believe we'll see the fresh Oshi and Morgan start. Doughty to keep his place as he's got a good engine and gets up and down the line, Gallagher central, Leko right side or free role perhaps, to provide running at their defence and the unpredictable.
Got to keep it tight.
Might even be some sort of 4-2-3-1 morphing to 4-5-1 with Bonne lone striker, to take us to HT or the hour.
Then we'll open up. 4-diamond-2 .... On comes Taylor and Willo and we'll go for it.
Having said all that, I haven't got a clue. Bow picks 3-5-2 and here we go again ...... wibble.
Start the suicide squad!
oshi
pearce
lockyer
matthews
pratley
ledley
morgan
gallagher
leko
bonne
half time - taylor on
20 to go - williams on to win it
please no back 5
Phillips
Matthews Lockyer Sarr Purrington
Oshilaja Pratley Ledley
Gallagher
Bonne Leko
Maynard-Brewer, Solly, Pearce, Morgan, Doughty, Williams, Taylor
Risk of breaking down and losing Taylor for another 8 games, Bowyer reckons he's been told.
He's got to be eased back.
0-1 to Hull.
Pratley to start in a back 3 instead of Sarr, Taylor to start alongside Bonne ..
Phillips .. Pearce, Pratley, Lockyer .. Matthews, Gallagher, Oshilaja, Ledley, Doughty .. Taylor, Bonne
Hull can be good or terrible depending on who knows what. I reckon this weekend they will be right off form and we will get back in the groove even with a patched up team
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