CNL: Jamaica vs Canada - Saturday, November 18th - 10:30am EST / 7:30am Pacific - Kingston, Jamaica

[blueseeka]

1 minute ago, trc2014 said:

I guess Johnston on the bench?

Wonder if its a minor injury. He should be starting over Adekugbe and Laryea

[prairiecanuck]

2 minutes ago, WestHamCanadianinOxford said:

Interesting

Laryea at rightback over Johnston is interesting, or is Buchanan playing rightback?

[blueseeka]

3 minutes ago, trc2014 said:

Why start Vitoria?  Slow and hasn’t played in Jamaica before like Cornelius.  What are these major changes Biello was talking about?

Lol...i never expecting any different.  He benched Cornelius in a friendly. Let's hope we win and move on from Biello

[Alex]

My guess:

laryea- Vitoria- Miller - adekugbe 

Buchanan - kone - eustaquio - Davies 

david- Larin 

 

[Borjans Sweatpants]

Remember that time Biello said Davies was only going to play LB/LWB? That out the window?

[Phonzie4Fun]

How soon after the game will the replay be available on Onesoccer? 

[dyslexic nam]

3 minutes ago, prairiecanuck said:

Laryea at rightback over Johnston is interesting, or is Buchanan playing rightback?

If it is a straight 4-4-2 to make sure we have coverage in the back, I suspect Richie is RB and Tajon is on the wing.   
 

1 minute ago, Alex said:

My guess:

laryea- Vitoria- Miller - adekugbe 

Buchanan - kone - eustaquio - Davies 

david- Larin 

 

Yeah, that is what it looks like to me - with David potentially dropping between an out and out striker and an high attacking central mid. 
 

EDIT: unless Adekugbe and Davies are almost interchangeable on the left side in which case Davies could play some time at LB.  

Edited November 18, 2023 by dyslexic nam

[king1010]

Vitoria over Cornelius is wild. 

[WestHamCanadianinOxford]

Fire with fire I guess 

Our attackers are going to find form or die trying.

Some pace and bodies on the wings.

Light in midfielder but that is not where they are scariest. 

 

But Cornelius really needs to be in instead of either of the centre backs. In my opinion. 

Edited November 18, 2023 by WestHamCanadianinOxford

[Alex]

Just now, Borjans Sweatpants said:

Remember that time Biello said Davies was only going to play LB/LWB? That out the window?

I don’t see how he can be when we have Laryea, Adekugbe and Buchanan on the field 

[Borjans Sweatpants]

3 minutes ago, blueseeka said:

Wonder if its a minor injury. He should be starting over Adekugbe and Laryea

Looked fine walking in from the social media posts, but who knows

[Borjans Sweatpants]

Just now, Alex said:

I don’t see how he can be when we have Laryea, Adekugbe and Buchanan on the field 

Agreed doesn’t look like that’s what he’s doing this game. Just ironic that one game in and Biello’s already wavering on where to put him

[narduch]

From Fotmob

 

[Borjans Sweatpants]

Back 4 would be great, but no Johnston and no Cornelius sucks. Wish Ahmed was out there too. 

[trc2014]

1 minute ago, narduch said:

From Fotmob

 

Guess the Gray injury was true.

[Olympique_de_Marseille]

9 minutes ago, trc2014 said:

Why start Vitoria?

7 minutes ago, InglewoodJack said:

not sure about starting Vitoria 

He has been solid for us. We looked more cohesive during that 2nd half against Japan when he played.

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9 minutes ago, trc2014 said:

 major changes Biello was talking about?

7 minutes ago, InglewoodJack said:

benching Johnston 

Johnston on the bench is a major change and feels a little disturbing. He has been so consistently good for us.

Edited November 18, 2023 by Olympique_de_Marseille

[dyslexic nam]

Interestingly, if both Davies and Tajon are on the wings, they both have extensive experience in the outside back roles.   They could be expected to come back and support the defence a lot - even with 4 dedicated defenders.  If so, we would be essentially setting up to chase the draw (with some efforts on the counter) to set up a home win.  

[Obinna]

No Gray from the start as expected. Guessing Shamar is the replacement.

[WestHamCanadianinOxford]

Just now, narduch said:

From Fotmob

 

4-3-3 with Antonio playing his old position and some height up front?

Reid maybe a problem against 2 in midfield 

[InglewoodJack]

2 minutes ago, Olympique_de_Marseille said:

He has been solid for us. We looked more cohesive during that 2nd half against Japan when he played.

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Johnston on the bench is a major change and feels a little disturbing. He has been so consistently good for us.

Re: Johnston it could be less about benching him and more about starting Laryea. An away game on a bad pitch, he could go out there and just be really annoying for Jamaica.

[dyslexic nam]

2 minutes ago, WestHamCanadianinOxford said:

4-3-3 with Antonio playing his old position and some height up front?

Reid maybe a problem against 2 in midfield 

If they go with 3 in the middle we should be able to pass through them or bomb up the wings when they are narrow.  
 

Should be an interesting game.  

[Unnamed Trialist]

40 minutes ago, DeRo_Is_King said:

Hey @spitfire, Someone on here mentioned that Stacks is injured after MAK stepped on him. Sounds like a bad joke, but it's created some confusion. Do you know if this is true? 

It was a frigging joke after Kaye's red card the other day, take a breather guys.

Give Staq credit though, he can recover from a fake injury faster than most.

I have no idea why anyone would think I had an inside scoop from 7800 km away.

Edited November 18, 2023 by Unnamed Trialist

[Obinna]

I don't mind Laryea for Johnston here. I trust Laryea's pace a little more and keeping Johnston fresh for Toronto is a plus.

Unpopular opinion perhaps but I don't mind Vitoria here. We need the arial ability. 

Miller next to him though concerns me a bit. Biello must think the familiarity trumps the lack of game time. His call but Cornelius would have been more comforting for me. 

[Obinna]

1 minute ago, InglewoodJack said:

Re: Johnston it could be less about benching him and more about starting Laryea. An away game on a bad pitch, he could go out there and just be really annoying for Jamaica.

This.

[Floortom]

The Miller / Vitoria combo really scares me here.