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5 Things To Learn From Astra Giurgiu v West Ham Draw

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Submitted by nevillenixon on Fri, 19/08/2016 - 21:25

(1) Slaven Billic has to balance Barclay's premier league attainment against Europa League progress.
(2) Gokhan Tore needs to 'pound the weights'
(3) Sam Byram deserves a start despite being a bit too aggressive
(4) Although he missed a sitter at the end, Mikael Antonio deserves to start as a winger ahead of Tore
(5) Astoundingly there were no additional injuries sustained!- Ed

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where bilic is concerned regarding Tore....one area of the squad we had plenty of cover in seems overloaded now and how Antonio is not the starter there is purely because of slavs bias....if Antonio had been a bit dodgy playing wide I would understand but he next to payet and lanzini were our outstanding players last season so it should be a case of Tore/Feghouli proving they are better but slav for some reason seems to have some reservations about him.
it will be interesting to see if he starts on sunday.......one last thing I see they are claiming the players who travelled are already very tired my god its bloody romania not the former soviet union....if we are bleating now god forbid what happens if we actually qualify and hears a thought why travel back in the wee small hours why not stay overnight have a good rest and fly back late morning but is that being to sensible....Bilic needs to prioritise the premier league and just use youth and fringe players for the Europa league...everton struggled badly last year because of it and clearly our squad is not strong enough considering the injuries we keep picking up

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All this tired malarkey makes me laugh...just get on with it!!also like you say id rather concentrate on the prem,its going to be tougher than last season imo,we have shed loads of injuries all ready...
bournemouth is a big game,need to win this one to start building confidence.

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