Massive weekend for Irons as threatened teams clash

By Hughie Southon

We call every one a six pointer these days!

But the upcoming game against Southampton truly is as big a game as we have faced in a long, long time.

Win it and if other results go our way we can claw our way onto 27 points and give ourselves some real breathing space.

The teams above us are involved as follows: Arsenal v LEEDS, PALACE V LEICESTER. FOREST V WOLVES, EVERTON v Spurs.

It isn’t exactly a defining weekend but the briefest of glances at those games makes it clear what an important weekend it is going to be.

There’s two games in there where teams who could easily slip into serious trouble, clash whilst Leeds and Everton have seriously difficult games.

David Moyes has some serious thinking to do and this is a match where we will need much creativity and a truly attacking attitude against a team that has been picking up points lately against such as Chelsea, Man United and the Spuds.

It is to be hoped the manager will include Manu Lanzini who was superb in the last European game and I think it’s time to play Pablo Fornals rather than the unpredicatble Said Benrahma.

The front man remains a problem wirth neither Scamacca or Ings looking the part tight now so it is Antonio for me

A win is so utterly crucial and this would be my team, Give us yours:

Areola; Coufal, Aguerd, Zouma, Emerson; Rice, Soucek, Lanzini. Fornals, Bowen, Antonio.