Leeds, first team 2017-18

[Deleted User 728]

Never mind the team that's quite an impressive bench.

How good is it to read that statement ?

[MOT1964]

I have it on good authority (my nan) that the team is...

....................Felix....................
Anita....Pennington...Cooper.....Ayling
............O Kane....... Klich.............
Roofe..........Hernandez..........Alioski
....................Wood.....................

Bench...
Green,Berardi,Saiz,Bridcutt,Viera,Ekuban

So there you go,end of.
Bolton 1 Leeds 3.

Never mind the team that's quite an impressive bench.

It would be even better if seven subs were allowed and we could also have Dallas or Phillips on the bench

[kennyb41]

My nan's been down training ground,now states he's not bothering tampering with defence so much as it's enough being without Pontus,but she likes what she saw and now goes with this..

....................The Cat......................
Ayling.....Pennington...Cooper.....Berardi
...............O Kane....Anita.................
Klitch............Hernandez............Alioski
......................Wood.......................

Apparantly 1... He can't make his mind up about starting Roofe and Saiz and wants to get them on asap.
Apparantly 2... He trusts Berardi defensively but wants to play the ball out from keeper up and dosen't trust Berardi on that front,currently trying different permutations,but not happy at all and likely to go with as close to end of last season as possible for the time being.

Bolton 0 Leeds 2.

[DominanceUK]

Still no mention of the captain for the season or am I wrong? If Bridcutt is captain on Sat then I can only assume he will be named captain for the season.

-----------------Wiedwald-------------------

Ayling---Pennington---Cooper---Berardi

-------------Bridcutt---Vieira---------------

------Alioski---Hernandez---Roofe--------

--------------------Wood---------------------

Subs: Green, Anita, Phillips, O'Kane, Saiz, Akuban, Dallas

I would imagine that will be TC's side or at least very close to it.

[kk white]

Still no mention of the captain for the season or am I wrong? If Bridcutt is captain on Sat then I can only assume he will be named captain for the season.

-----------------Wiedwald-------------------

Ayling---Pennington---Cooper---Berardi

-------------Bridcutt---Vieira---------------

------Alioski---Hernandez---Roofe--------

--------------------Wood---------------------

Subs: Green, Anita, Phillips, O'Kane, Saiz, Akuban, Dallas

I would imagine that will be TC's side or at least very close to it.

Could be close to that lineup Dominace. What unsettles me is that it's only 1 additional outfield player to last years team (Alioski). Granted Pennington is new, but he's there out of necessity, rather than an improvement on Bartley. Need the bench to step up or realistically we wont improve on 7th place...?

[Deleted User 728]

I'm not sure that team will be as close as you two think, you know ?

Don't forget, this is a new head coach with a new team in the dugout so apart from videos of last season's matches and the opinions of the remaining staff from Monk's time at the helm, TC is probably just gonna use what he's seen so far of the squad in pre-season.
I don't think Bridcutt, O'Kane and Vieira will be certain starters in midfield - one of them probably, but I'd be surprised to see two of those three lining up against Bolton. I would expect Anita to be in the team from the get go and for him to be a key player. He may start at right back if Ayling goes in the middle with Berardi on the left, but if not he'll play in central midfield I would think.

Anyway .. I could list my predicted line-up but it's all speculation and hopefully we'll have another two players to consider before the big kick-off

[Leonickroberts]

I'm not sure that team will be as close as you two think, you know ?

Don't forget, this is a new head coach with a new team in the dugout so apart from videos of last season's matches and the opinions of the remaining staff from Monk's time at the helm, TC is probably just gonna use what he's seen so far of the squad in pre-season.
I don't think Bridcutt, O'Kane and Vieira will be certain starters in midfield - one of them probably, but I'd be surprised to see two of those three lining up against Bolton. I would expect Anita to be in the team from the get go and for him to be a key player. He may start at right back if Ayling goes in the middle with Berardi on the left, but if not he'll play in central midfield I would think.

Anyway .. I could list my predicted line-up but it's all speculation and hopefully we'll have another two players to consider before the big kick-off

Agree with all of this Rigger - I'd also expect to see Saiz and Hernandez becoming interchangeable given their similarities, and the fact Saiz got 12 goals from midfield last season.

[MOT1964]

Anyway .. I could list my predicted line-up but it's all speculation

You already have in the 'Starting XI v Bolton' thread

He won't want to get beaten in his first match, so I'd expect us to play one up top, pack the midfield and hit them on the break.
With Jansson out, three at the back seems highly unlikely so I'd expect a 4-3-3 or 4-2-3-1 :

[Deleted User 728]

Haha !
I'd forgotten about that

And look - I'm true to my word !

[DominanceUK]

I'm not sure that team will be as close as you two think, you know ?

Don't forget, this is a new head coach with a new team in the dugout so apart from videos of last season's matches and the opinions of the remaining staff from Monk's time at the helm, TC is probably just gonna use what he's seen so far of the squad in pre-season.
I don't think Bridcutt, O'Kane and Vieira will be certain starters in midfield - one of them probably, but I'd be surprised to see two of those three lining up against Bolton. I would expect Anita to be in the team from the get go and for him to be a key player. He may start at right back if Ayling goes in the middle with Berardi on the left, but if not he'll play in central midfield I would think.

Anyway .. I could list my predicted line-up but it's all speculation and hopefully we'll have another two players to consider before the big kick-off

I see where you're coming from Rigz, having seen Anita in two friendlies he hasn't played in Midfield at all so that's what I'm basing my prediction on Anita being on the bench. I aint 100% on this one but I don't think I've seen Ayling been used as a CB, he's played at RB and LB. But we'll see soon pal, Sat might give us more insight on this matter.