HRK is top. Scorer because Austin is a perennial sub and Zohore out of the picture. Nothing to write home about 10 goals, the Kevin Phillips would have 25-30 by now in this team. HRK is not good enough for this team. The only other option is Robinson up front. If you watched the Guardiola Barcelona team from. 2008 onwards, the false 9 does work as he proved it. We need the best players starting at this critical stage. He did the right thing with including Hegazi / Gibbs. Starting Krov and Diangana on the bench is madness. How can HRK be one of the best XI with everyone available?
Guardiola had the players to play with a false number 9 we don't. Are you seriously comparing us with Barcelona??? The problem on Saturday wasn't with the formation it was that we didn't create enough clear chances, too many times Phillips had the chance to cross but decided to try and beat his man another time. Phillips wasn't the only one though Gibbs, Periera, Edwards all did it too.
HRK is top scorer because he has scored more goals than anyone else in the team end of. Austin is usually a sub because he hasn't been good enough when he comes on (apart from Blues away). IF HRK isn't good enough for this team then Austin isn't. Neither HRK or AUstin should be 1st or 2nd choice in the PL. The less said about Zohore the better.
I wouldn't mind seeing Robinson through the middle but we would need to play to his strengths. Although I can imagine there would be lots of moans on here if Bilic tried it and we didn't win.
At the end of the day it doesn't matter what you or I think about the line up it's Bilic that makes the call. He put out a team on Saturday that should have been capable of beating Blues but we didn't, that's football.
As I said in a previous post I'm sure Bilic will make changes to either the starting line up and/or the bench for the Brentford game. Football is a squad game and while players are getting back to match sharpness it makes sense to utilise that squad as much as possible.