Kind of ironic that our African contingent all scored today. I'm just scratching my head how we will cope without them for a month when they leave to afcon midseason.
The fixtures fall pretty well for us during AFOCN 22:
January 6 – AFCON begins
January 8/9 – FA Cup 3rd Round
January 15 – Brentford (H)
January 22 – Crystal Palace (A)
February 6 – AFCON final
February 9 – Leicester (H)
It is hitting Crystal Palace pretty hard, as they lose a few good players including Zaha, Schlupp, Ayew and Kouyatea, Brentford also lose a few, and with smaller squads, will hit them harder, so I think we should be ok, AFCON players should all be back for Leicester at home.
Depends who we get in the FA Cup I guess, but that will be a weakened team anyways, so probably get knocked out of that when we draw Chelsea away lol
Then again, FSG may open their wallets and bring in a forward in January, depends how Elliott is recovering I guess, certainly a loan forward would be good at least for cover, but we said all that in the summer!