Team for first leg

I doubt & hope that collision is not included not shown us anything special in the games he as played so far, fingers crossed that calamity Caldwell is not in the team !

Picking up on some of the things Rosler has said, such as the tie not being won or lost in the first leg, I think that he’s going to be relatively cautious tomorrow which I think will mean a set up like the Arsenal game where he played 3/5 (if you include wing backs) at the back.
So with thinking that & looking at his previous few line ups to see who played & how much game tim ethey got I think that the team won’t be to dis-similar to this one:

Carson
Boyce Barnett Ramis
Perch Beausejour
McArthur Gomez
McManaman Maloney
Fortune

From looking at his team last week i think that Perch, Boyce, Barnett, McArthur, Gomez, Beausejour, McManaman & Maloney (none of whom started last week) are shoe ins.
He seems to have settled on Carson as his keeper & I think that Ramis was given 45 minutes against Blackburn just to check he was back fit
So that gives 10 starters

The only debate I can see is what forward he starts with. I think that he’ll go with Fortune coz he worked well in that role against Arsenal & whilst he can’t hit a cow’s @r$e with banjo in front of goal he can keep the opposition defence under pressure, win the ball when it’s cleared logn & hold it up to bring others into play. Waghorn for me is a better finisher but if there was one flaw with the Reading set up it was that when the ball got cleared logn to Waghorn he won nowt & it was just giving away possesion. I think a better team than reading on the day may have been able to exploit that.
Another reason I think he may go for Fortune is that knowing Rosler’s fondness for rotation, Waghorn has started the last 3 games including last week’s – unless Waghorn has become one of the “irreplacables” like McArthur & Boyce

Not saying its the team I’d go for but I think its what he’ll go with

Its an option & was one he used at Wembley, but I just think the fact that he didn’t start with either McManaman or Maloney last week, both of whom are being managed as they come back from injury problems indicates that he’ll start with both of em, maybe with Maloney operating in a more central role off the forwards – “in the hole” as they like to call it.
If QPR sit back like I expect them to he’ll need players who can stretch & pull their defence about to create space for others to exploit & both McManaman & Maloney can do that. I don’t think thats one of Waghorn’s strengths & he appears to me to be more of a grafter
But for me last week’s line up, or more the ommissions, are a strong indicator of the team for tomorrow

In all honesty, I’m not expecting the greatest game tomorrow night

Rosler was talking earlier in the week about hpw vital it was having players with big game experience in relegation deciders & cup finals/semi’s so I can’t see him going for Kiernan
Roger I think would be more likely but having just come back from a hernia I don’t think he’d have given him the full 90 last week if he was gonna start with him on Friday. Same with Caldwell

No – he played at Brenford for a time but he’d come back by mid February

Tonights Team

Wigan XI: Carson, Caldwell, Maloney, Gomez, McManaman, McArthur, Boyce, Beausejour, Perch, Kiernan, Fortune

Subs: Al Habsi, McClean, Espinoza, Barnett, Maynard, Waghorn, Collison

Hmmmmmmm!!!!!

Wasn’t far out was I?