Good interview. I hope we have the fight in our belly for this. I fancy Gabby to score (he must start surely) but can we see it out... It all comes down to our manager's lame in game management. Sigh.

Let´s try to be optimistic. I Know the stats for our season at Saint Mary´s, but there have been signs of improvement in our team lately - away from home, I know, but still. And Carrillo looks good, I think.

The team has to come up with something new!! New tactics. Stoke will probably defend with many players behind the ball and try to counter attack. Maybe a 3-5 2 formation would work against such opposition?

What has the team been practising from monday to friday??

A win in this game would give us a breathing space, and further cement Stoke's problems in the bottom 3. The stat. that showed we were the Prem's 6th highest shot-takers is tempered by the fact that we have converted only 10% of those chances, and hitting the woodwork ...14 times... isn't too encouraging either.
However, we are looking a bit steadier - as a team.

I'd like to see Josh Sims get more game time, but am not unduly worried in waiting for Carrillo's first goal. He has learned to "put himself about " a bit more now and has laid on 3 assists, and to be fair to him....suddenly coming to the Prem. in January from a place on the Monaco bench can't have been an easy move.

When we eventually see Gabbiadini, Boufal and Tadic hit a bit of consistancy who knows what results might be? but I want to see is the end of "the Curse of Crouch" .
Like Giroud - in his Arsenal Days - Crouchie has the habit of popping up too often with a goal to steal our points.