Your well off the mark on this post , gives his all and provides plenty of service

I rate Milivojevic for what he is: a holding midfielder with some decent passing. Puncheon is a different horse.

I refuse to call him Luka cause I'm neither his family nor his girlfriend

Having McArthur to bring on from the bench could be a better strategy as we know we fade in games and Cabaye always needs to come off. No one else can come into the midfield and sure things up or add energy late on. One thing that you can fault McArthur for is his lack of creative influence, I think with Milivojevic there, Cabaye and Puncheon are freed up a bit to attack. McArthur may be needed more in games where we aren't expected to have much possession.

If we start with Cabaye, Milivojevic and McArthur then Cabaye will have to come off and McArthur will be knackered too going into the last 10 minutes. Then the options from the bench would be Puncheon and Ledley (or Flamini who's never fit seemingly), none of which are players you'd want coming on to sure things up or add a bit of energy.

Wise words.

COYP

Well Paul Merson supposedly reckons he is better than all the Leicester players at the moment. Enough said. Personally I do not think he has merited the number of performances given to him over a number of managers, particularly since our dip since the beginning of 2016.

Edited by Booted Eagle (25 Feb 2017 8.45pm)

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Very harsh on punch he hasn't had the best of years but when he's on it he's twice the player cabaye is and he actually cares about palace

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