Slaven Bilic approaches tonight’s Capital One Cup game at Leicester declaring:”It is a competition where we know we have a chance.”
And he added – speaking to www.whufc.com: “You never know what will happen but what I can say is that we will give our best.”
“We are approaching the competition with the aim to win it if possible. We are not the favourites but that will be our approach.”
Michail Antonio and Nikica Jelavic are both Cup-tied and Mauro Zarate, Andy Carroll and James Collins will all be hoping to get starts.”
The manager said: “We will try to look at other players. It is a shame that Michail and Jelavic cannot play as they have already played in the competition and are cup-tied but we will try to maintain our chances and keep the same quality on the pitch.
“If possible it will be good to rest a couple of players who played against Newcastle and Manchester City on Saturday.”
Youngsters Reece Oxford, Josh Cullen and Elliot Lee could all come into contention, while Cheikhou Kouyate is also hoping to make a return to the squad after missing the City victory with a minor niggle.
Reckon its going to be a tight match tonight but we can still put out a more than half decent team to deal with Leicester & their Doodoo or whatever he is called 😉
We all feel that players need resting but looking at Man City tonight against Sunderland
They are only resting 2 players and they played in Europe last week,
Maybe we should be sending out a full team as well with only a couple rested Sakho has been busy from early on and I would love to see us perform without Payet for a game,
Zarate and Carroll would be good replacements,if Jenks is not 100% then Tomks can fill in at right back again and Collins can start,Oxford could play with Noble to rest Koyate and
Obiang,Callum could come into for Lanzini if needs Lee on the bench
We would still have a better side than we have had for 4 years