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[DadCreature]

Kurzawa not fit then? Great... so we're basically paying PSG to get him match fit before we send him back. Rafa Soares all over again.

I don't get the complaints here. There are 31 games to go after this one, so presumably we are paying for Kurzawa to be either back up or starter in a majority of them. We clearly knew the status but probably took a calculated risk. In this case we were unfortunate that Robinson got injured about 30 seconds after Kurzawa arrived. Stuff happens.

Why is Kurzawa not on the bench?

I believe Marco said that Kurzawa had neither a pre-season or any competitive games when he arrived, so will take time to get to match fitness. He was happy to let Bryan leave us knowing that this was the situation.

I also got the sense that the club wanted to do right by Bryan - keeping him around for just the possible one or two matches over the season didn't seem right.  Sucks for us today, but respect that they let him go find playing time.

[brightster]

Might be back 3 with Tete RWB and Bobby LWB, makes more sense!

[Finnans Right Peg]

You can be sure what ever formation we play we will have worked on it with all the free time we have had.

COYW

[davew]

With the 5 subs rule I think we have a chance of getting a point. Cairney, James, Kebano, Harris and Alves Morais get them on when we are 1 down!

Who is Alves Morais? Forgive my ignorance

On our subs list
Substitutes
1Rodák
5Duffy
7Kebano
10Cairney
12Chalobah
21James
27Mbabu
30Alves Morais
38Harris

[davew]

Also known as "Carlos Vinícius Alves Morais", I didn´t that either!