Frimpong will be available as will Robbo and that completes the list of available outfield players.
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Bradley(hopefully) Konate______Virgil________Kerkez
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Chiesa _______Ekitike ________Wirzt
Szoboszlai is suspended.. so Chiesa may actually start a league game.. Can't think of anyone else to play right side.
Cleaning up the Scots since the 13th century
Frimpong will be available as will Robbo and that completes the list of available outfield players.
Surely Chiesa starts this one. Surely...
Personally I'd like to see him get a PL or CL start. We were told (at start of last season?) he is a marvellous talent who just needed to get fit and up to speed then he'd be unleashed. Or so we assumed, what little time he has had has shown the talent and workrate is there. Its now or never, he's trained hard and not complained publicly at least. He appears to have more tools than Gakpo but he's not dutch......
I don't think anyone believes he is the second coming of Messi or anything.
However I think most believe in meritocracy to some degree or other.
He's had the late goals against Bournemouth and Crystal Palace, the assist for Gakpo in the 2-1 loss to the Mancs, he set up two for Hugo Ekitike in the Carabao Cup when we beat Southampton and he also had the goal-saving (job-saving?!?!?!) block that would have been a Sunderland winner, having sprinted 70 yards, where nobody else busted a gut.
These are enough for fans to feel he should be getting some more minutes than what he is, especially when lads like Salah and Gakpo have had poor games and continued to start, whilst Federico is often limited to scraps, relatively speaking.
Using him more often would also help with rotation, preventing burnout later in the season - so I think fans want to see him start - not to mention that he can't be much worse than some of the performances we've seen this season, which, thankfully, most lads have been turning around over the last 6 or 7 fixtures - so credit where due to the playing staff and to Slot.
We'll never know if he's as good as the songs suggest as he never plays.