Cardiff v West Ham 19.45 Wednesday 4th November

Brother_Sledge

Being shown live on Sky plus. Really need to find some kind of performance for this one.

Brother_Sledge

Areola
Veltman,Golambekis,Kilman,Morato
Bowen,Soucek,Engels,Austbo
Piroe,Taty

buffybegood

We're so screwed defensively. We've got 5 senior defenders, the rest are from the academy plus Boiro on a loan we're apparently trying to terminate.

We're so much worse defensively when KWP plays instead of Veltman, so that leaves 4 players (including the albatross around our necks, Kilman) to choose from if we're not gonna have to call on the youngsters, so if Mavropanos is still out we'll have to resort to playing one of them. Scarles has had plenty of first team games and I'm still not convinced tbh, and, if we're being honest, Golambeckis didn't have a great game on Saturday.

Can't help feeling we might struggle again.

jay_in_cpt

Or perhaps NES can change his tactics to help the situation we are in….Or use players that have played that position before….

I definitely agree with @Brother_Sledge re Areola, but still don’t think NES will drop Mads…

thornburyiron

Golambeckis was involved in two of their goals Saturday.

IronHerb

Yeah! Let's crucify a youngster.

Fortuneseeker

Alvarez can play Centre Back or put Morato there and hope he can cover for Kilman.

thorn, It probably didn't help having to play along side Kilman & not having a proper CDM to help make the defence stronger.

buffybegood

IronHerb said:

Yeah! Let's crucify a youngster.

We're not crucifying him, at least I'm not, but if a youngster doesn't have a great game or makes mistakes, are we not allowed to say so?

thornburyiron

If they’re old enough to play then they’re old enough to be criticised. If not they shouldn’t be there.