Hennessey
Ward
Dann
Delaney
Ledley (lb)
McArthur
Cabaye
FlaminI
Puncheon Lm
Zaha
Benteke

Subs : Speroni, Kelly, fryers, townsend ,chungy,sako/remy and campbell

Edited by Dan89 (25 Dec 2016 4.49pm)

Another Damien Diagonal - Total Football

I think changes will be minimal. Possibly start Townsend and maybe Ledley at LB.

I would imagine he will want to keep it tight for the first game. If we managed a clean sheet, win or draw it would be a big psychological boost.

I think he probably knows a good deal about us already. He'll either go with the same as against Chelsea or he may see the imbalance caused by Ward/Kelly playing as LB as something he'll want to change straight away and go with Fryers starting. He may find Townsend too tempting not to play from the start, I imagine Andros will have really tried to impress in training this week.