What is our strongest x11

Gordon
Lustig Boyata Benkovic KT
Brown Ntcham
Forrest Rogic McGregor
Edouard
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I've chosen Gordon only because we haven't seen enough of Bain, though weirdly I feel instantly more confident when he's in goal with no reason to quantify it. But Gordon because when it's mattered he's pulled off worldies.

And I've chosen Ntcham because when he's on it he's unplayable.

Broony because I'm not ready to concede that we're stronger without him. Not having it.

It's hard. I'm glad I'm not Brendan.

 

Everyone has their own opinion.


Dont think I would put Brown in mine either for the record.

 

Then you're wrong.

 

Bain
Lustig Boyata Benkovic Tierney
Brown McGregor
Forrest Rogic Sinclair
Edouard

 

Brown's probably our midfielder defensively, so for that reason he's an asset.

 

On current form*, I'd go:

Gordon
Lustig Ajer Benkovic KT
Broony McGregor
Forrest Rogic Sinclair
Edouard​

* with the exception of Boyata, who I obviously left out of our best side for other reasons.

 

Gordon
Gamboa Ajer Boyata Benkovic KT
Ntcham McGregor
Rogic Forrest
Edouard
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I'm going down with the Gamboa ship. Domestically we can happily swap a CB for another attacking midfielder.

 

Gordon
Boyata Ajer Benkovic
Forrest Brown Ntcham McGregor KT
Rogic
Edouard

 

For me one of the biggest changes in the last few weeks domestically has been that we’ve moved from a pretty rigid 4-2-3-1 to a 4-3-3/4-1-4-1.

In effect we’ve inverted the triangle in central midfield and gone from two players sitting screening (Brown and Ntcham) and rarely breaking the lines, with one attacking midfielder (Rogic) to one sitting (McGregor) behind two forward thinking midfielders (Christie and Rogic). Simply put, it commits another player to the attacking third and frees him up to break the lines, link play and support the striker (which Christie is excelling at). It has led to far more free flowing attacking football, but perhaps just as importantly it has made it far more difficult for teams to man mark Rogic and lets him play with the game in front of him rather than with his back to goal.

Of course McGregor has excelled with his distribution in a deeper role, but he’s equally capable of playing as one of the two more offensive options.

Brown and Ntcham offer a great base in matches where the midfield is a battle and getting on top is key (e.g. in Europe and against Sevco), but in my opinion there’s absolutely no need to play them both together in other domestic games.

Our flexibility and ability to adapt to different games makes it difficult to therefore pick a “best” eleven in my opinion.

 

This is it imo. Although I rate Bain higher than Gordon I know he'll never get picked ahead of him for big games.

 

This. Ntcham is an absolute must.

 

Gordon

Lustig Boyata Benkovic Tierney

Forrest Rogic McGregor Brown

Griffiths Edouard

 

Move Brown and McGregor Brown at LM would kill our playing style.

 

Van Dijk , Wanyama and Dembele alongside Benkovic,Ntcham and Edouard some spine!