Brentford have gone full strength, lol. Serve them right if they get a couple of injuries. We basically don't care about the title, which is fair enough as pretty sure Norwich are going to clinch it anyway.
Good team, happy with those changes. We can’t catch Norwich, Brentford can’t catch us. May as well give another chance to players like Hungbo. Hopefully Pochettino, Perica and especially Wilmot get on in the 2nd half.
You can afford that when the job is done. I wouldn't be surprise if we used all 5 subs which is unusual.
Gray hat-trick, with him lighting up a roll of 50 pound parachute payment notes and smoking them as goal celebrations please.
Laugh even harder when they celebrate the win against our starting 11. Clearly we don’t care. Hilarious that they are trying, starting their best 11 in a nothing game. As @Steve Leo Beleck said, if they get injuries, it’s on them.
As long as Gino sits down with Xisco and addresses the issues (that we all know need addressing) - I think we will have enough of a strong first eleven. Backup may indeed need looking into.
Sarr being given a rest until the end of the season is the most important thing. Pleased with that selection overall.
26Bachmann 15Cathcart 27Kabasele 31Sierralta 11Masina 8Cleverley 19Hughes 16Gosling 44Hungbo 18Gray 12Sema Substitutes 1Foster 5Troost-Ekong 6Wilmot 7Zinckernagel 17Lazaar 22Success 25Perica 32Navarro 38Pochettino Nice to see we are giving the yoof a chance against lower league opposition
Would have preferred to have seen our first team beat them 5-0 but I guess our key players deserve a rest. Must be disheartening for their players. Imagine thinking you were going to be lining up “The Ismail Sarr”and then find you’re facing a youngster called Hungbo.
Well Kabs is arguably our best CB after Sierralta, excited to see Hungbo even if it means Sarr is out, he deserves a start, and Gosling for Chalobah is, well, fine, but it's a shame Ngakia seems to be injured. A much needed rest for JP (Sema on the other hand is probably gonna play until he drops dead lol), would have liked to have seen Perica, but oh well, it doesn't matter!
Beating us for the first time in 40 plus years means more to them than resting key players for the play offs. Bless 'em.
Looks like we have settled for runners up spot then, which is a pity as I would like for us to have a go at winning the title despite the fact it is unlikely
I know what you mean (especially as Reading have just gone 0-1 up!). However, does anyone really remember who wins the championship? IMO, the core focus is on who finished in the top 2.
A stronger bench would have made sense and see what's happening in the other match. Maybe Sarr really is injured.
Right, but that's because we were involved in the race. Would the neutrals remember? Would the media remember? I don't think anyone would be that bothered to be honest. Winning the Championship title really doesn't mean much IMO. Look at Norwich. They won it 2 seasons ago (I think!) and then got bent over backwards on a weekly basis last season. Winning the league really doesn't matter to me. Taking our chance at another shot in the PL does.
Really feel for Hungbo. Finally gets a start, looks fairly bright, then pulls a hamstring only 20 minutes in! I hope we can find him a good loan next season.
And then Zinc finally gets a chance at RW and 2 mins later, Clevs injured...back to CM. Guess we'll never know.
Probably neutrals wouldn't care. Simply because of the money in the Prem. you're right. It's just getting up. I'm in it for the glory though.
