Your team v Fulham
A difficult selection dilemma for this game.
On the one hand, it seems simple to pick your strongest XI when you are still in a title race. That's a given, really.
On the other, our form over the last 5 League games does not correlate well with a side that is in need of 6 wins to have an outside shot of a title. We looked energy-depleted and low on ideas, which means a side best-equipped to win a match may not be our best-XI on paper.
I'd start a couple of younger players here - just a couple. I imagine that will be seen as defeatist, but it's not about "giving in" at all - I think the fearlessness and energy with which youth play might be a percentage gain rather than fielding almost exactly the same familiar faces. How we play is no secret and our mixed form and low confidence is no secret either so something needs to be different.
..........................Alisson
Trent....Quansah....Van Dijk... Robertson
...........................Endo
...............Elliott.........Clark
.........Jota.......Danns........Núñez
Front three with license to rotate and naturally make use of subs throughout the game - lads like Mac Allister or Salah could come into this match and I would definitely stick Mac Allister in one of the 8s due to this vision rather than the 6 for this.
Won't be to many's liking, but it's not like Jürgen will pick this line-up anyway so my having a different approach to some hardly matters.
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