Doucoure is out suspended.
Vieira said at the press conference that his probable replacement, Hughes , has been ill this week and only just returned to training.
This means he won’t have participated in the preparations for the City game and must be very unlikely to start.
It looks like the defensive midfield position could be between a McArthur lacking match fitness, an out of position Schlupp, an out of form Luka or an inexperienced Ahamada. This assumes Lokonga is the other central midfielder.
Doesn’t auger well for the game tomorrow as our midfield will have a cobbled together look.

f..ck it, lets play the kids and save our legs. The games at the bottom of the table matter. Man City is a hiding to hell.

inár n-aonar i Anerley, uimhir a haon londain theas

The way we are going, I would not mind play the kids for Mateta and Ayew/Schlupp - it cannot be any worse!

That's about right. Can't win them all, but the problem is which ones CAN we win? Precious few tbh.

Bournemouth scores!

100% unlikely that we will repeat that feat tonight.

A mystery how Vieira have managed to remove ANY desire for players to move forward and try to score - as natural as this is to any footballer on the planet…

So Bournemouth win and now are only three points behind us with other sides even closer,breathing down our necks.
With our next three games,we will probably slump into bottom three.