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Chesham City

---------------Diego Lopez
Gaspar -- Stones -- Smalling -- Hector
-----------Xhaka -- Nainggolan
----Didavi------Silva ------Firmino
--------------Suarez

Bench: Gamez,Dragovic,Gabi,Narsingh,Paloschi,Meier,Younes

Team Talk: Up against Viva who has midfield quality so shall look to exploit width and negate Ibrahimovic up top

Smalling to stick to Ibra, Stones to cover and play out from the back
Full backs to press high up the pitch and overlap wingers, Force their wingers down the line
Xhaka & Nainggolan to go box to box get about the pitch and put tackles in to stop Alonso playing for deep, Nainggolan Make late runs for the box, Xhaka sit on Coutinho at AM
Didavi & Firmino to cut in off the wing and link with Silva before running beyond.
Silva to sit in gap and create chances.
Suarez to annoy the defenders and get into scoring opportunities.

Subs - Narsingh for Didavi to get pace in behind their defense.

Vs

Manchester United


Formation: 4-3-1-2

Reina
Bellerin Laporte Zouma Lahm
Kante Alonso Motta
Ben Arfa
Robben Ibrahimovic

Subs
Casillas
Terry
Hernandez
Varela
Coutinho

Injuries
Maxwell
Julian Brandt
Jamie Vardy

Tactics
Want us to defend/attack the spaces  playing in zones to double up on them attacking or defending. High line defence to catch them offside as we’ve got pace to recover. Allow them the ball in their half, when they come in to ours each player defends their zone and the same for when attacking. FB pushes up and gets constant balls in giving us width. Midfield aware of runners and keep ball moving Robben drift to the right to double up and exploit the opening, Ben Arfa look for gaps to run in to our make passes to Ibra.


SUB 70 MIN IF LOSING
Motta off Coutinho on (Get another attacker on the pitch and we'll go with the following attack)

Robben Coutinho Ben Arfa
Ibrahimovic

Crawley Town

Injuries: Adriano, Kaptoum, Mavididi

Schmeichel
Fosu-Mensah - Balanta - Rudiger - Fuchs
Kondogbia
Vidal - Goretzka
S.Ramirez ----------------------- Neymar
Diego Costa

Subs: Weidenfeller, Jagielka, Maicon, Rudy, Cataldi, Guedes, Totti

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Home to Liaoning Whowin, playing 4-3-3/4-5-1, second game of the season, we're top of the league!
Schmeichel in goal, command your area, stay big for 1v1's.
Balanta, Rudiger centrebacks, Rudiger track their striker, Balanta the spare man. Defend as a unit.
Fosu-Mensah, Fuchs at fullback, defend solidly, in possession overlap the winger, get crosses in.
Kondogbia the DM, break up play.
Goretzka, Vidal box to box midfielders, support the attack with the ball, support Kondogbia without it.
Neymar, S.Ramirez inverted wingers, cut inside, link or feed overlapping fullback.
Costa upfront, shoot on sight. Hold up the ball for your teammates.

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Subs 70 mins:
If winning: No changes. Switch to flat 4-5-1 with S.Ramirez and Neymar to LM and RM.
If drawing: Goretzka off, Guedes on. Change to 4-2-3-1, Vidal and Kondogbia CM, Guedes and S.Ramirez wide, Neymar to AM/SS behind Costa.
If losing: Fuchs and Goretzka off, Guedes and Totti on. Change to 3-1-4-2 (see below), push for goals
Schmeichel
Fosu-Mensah - Balanta - Rudiger
Kondogbia
Guedes - Vidal - Totti - S.Ramirez
Costa - Neymar

Vs

Lianomg


--------------------------Hart-----------------------------
----Lichtsteiner------Silva--------Pepe-------------Blind-----
-----------------Casemiro-----------Verratti------------------
-------Payet-----------------Pogba----------------Milner------
----------------------------Aguero----------------------------

INJURIES
Kelechi Iheanacho
Anwar El Ghazi
Alex Telles


BENCH
Iraizoz
Tierney
Browning
Ojo
Storie
Brekalo
Dembele

TACTICS (100 Words)
We can win this game by being patient, looking to keep hold of the ball. Look to play nice passing triangles, get the ball through midfield with Aguero looking to play on the shoulder and getting Payet and Pogba on the ball as much as possible, along with Verratti dictating possession.

Their main threats Costa and Neymar - Costa is to be man-marked by Pepe, scrap for everything. Milner should play on the same side as Neymar (swap sides with Payet if necessary) to double up on him with the full back. If Neymar is central Casemiro to drop deeper.