This will be a ‘fascinating’ game, if only from a tactical perspective.
IF Poch gets the selection and the tactics right, we could well do better than we might currently imagine.
The squad is a mess of injuries, politics and empty spaces that ought to have been filled in the last window.
However this doesn’t automatically equate to a shambles, tomorrow night.
Davinson Sanchez and Toby Alderweireld have been rock solid and Rose has proved himself better than Ben Davies of late.
So I am struggling to see the possibility of Jan being sidelined as a complete and utter disaster.
The biggest riddle for Poch to solve is who he partners with Eric Dier.
Surely the out of steam form Mousa isn’t in the equation after a massively lacklustre showing against the mighty Huddersfield Town on Saturday?
Which leaves Mauricio staring down the barrel of the ‘Will it be Sissy or Victor?’ barrel.
Hobson’s choice, eh?