Can the team accommodate all of Zaha, Eze, Olise and Eze in the same starting line-up?
They are all players who like to run with the ball and tend to take an extra unnecessary touch or two.
When we have lost recently Vieira has bemoaned the fact that we have moved the ball too slowly, but in my view this is partly attributable to the fact that the players want that extra touch and don’t play enough first time passes.
This means we are too easily crowded out, the opposition has time to regroup or moves fizzle out.
We look unbalanced and I’m not sure that just stiffening up the midfield, as others have suggested, will fix this tendency to over elaborate from our more attacking players.
Even an accomplished team such as Man City rarely (if at all) start matches with Grealish, Mahrez, Foden and Bernardo Silva all in the same team.
These again are all players who like to run with the ball so Pep rotates them and balances them off with Rodri, Gundogan and De Bruyne who are adept at playing the ball early.
Obviously we don’t have such luxury of choice, but the principles of moving the ball quickly and purposefully remain even at our less hallowed levels.

Yes, as long as Ayew plays CF, if not no, Ayew should be a bench player great at winning free kicks with 20 mins to go if you are leading, the team set up is obvious, play players in their correct positions

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Agreed, when we had Zaha, Bolasie and Moritz/Punch we had Jedinak and KD in front of the defence

“That’s a joke son, I say, that’s a joke.” “Nice boy, but he’s sharp as a throw pillow.” “He’s so dumb he thinks a Mexican border pays rent” “ “Son… I say, son, some people are so narrow minded they can look through a keyhole with both eyes.”__ Forhorn Leghorn

Edouard
Wilf Eze Olise
Luka Douc
Mitch Anders Guehi Clyne
Guaita

that is the team, until we get another CM and RB

Wilf
Eze Olise Ayew
Schlup Douco

As played yesterday, Ridiculous

“That’s a joke son, I say, that’s a joke.” “Nice boy, but he’s sharp as a throw pillow.” “He’s so dumb he thinks a Mexican border pays rent” “ “Son… I say, son, some people are so narrow minded they can look through a keyhole with both eyes.”__ Forhorn Leghorn

That would be my team Lanzo although I still don’t know what is wrong with Hughes. As I mentioned on another thread, if he ain’t that good then why the hell did we buy him?