Pellegrini’s astonishing line-up

How the hell you can think anything other than Pellegrini is looking for the sack after seeing this line up fr tonight’s game.

Back comes Lukasz Fabianski – the one piece of good news – but out goes our most consistent defender, Angelo Ogbonna along with Mark Noble who presumably can’t manage two games in such a short space of time.

Or maybe – with Oggy dropped from the squad entirely for Winston Reid – the conspiracy theorists may believe he’s paying a price for the row between him and Noble who at least is on the bench.

In comes Carlos Sanchez for one of the most important games the manager has ever faced while current man of the moment Michail Antonio is also benched in favour of the predictable and failed one up system which so obsesses this manager.

It’s an astonishing and seriously worrying starting X1 which brings you to the conclusion that he may, just may,have given up and is looking for a pay-off.