With Albrighton out the obvious thing to do is play Young wide and either Ireland or Pires centrally. Although some have been positive about Pires' performance on Sunday, i thought he looked very slow indeed. I think I'd play:
Friedel - Young, Collins, Dunne, Warnock - Clark, Bannan - Delfouneso, Young, Downing - Agbonlahor
subs: Guzan, Lichaj, Beye, Hogg, Pires, Ireland, Carew
Can't see a win here. But then I didn't think we had a cat in hell's chance vs Man U.
We just need to scrape together whatever we can and hope that we get the bonus of new players coming in in January, and a real impact from the return of the walking wounded
