We won't play Kruse if he isn't 100% IMO. He has been training for two or three weeks and played the youth friendly last week. That should be plenty to suggest he is ready to play. My guess is he will get 20 or 30 minutes of the bench.

Article about Kurz: https://www.a-league.com.au/news/life-under-marco-how-melbourne-victory-changing-under-kurz

Kurz should poach Adrian Luna from City.

I want him to poach Dylan Wenzal Halls from our feeder club.

Time to give Marco Rojas a call and play him as a 10.

Hoogland was out with a hamstring injury (that's what the club has reported for the past 6 weeks)but now the club is saying he has a quad injury.  What's going on?

Looks like Nabbout is returning from injury this weekend. Hopefully he has recovered well.

Adelaide United v Melbourne Victory
Coopers Stadium, Adelaide
Saturday, November 23, 2019
Kick-off: 7.30pm AEDT

Melbourne Victory squad: 2.Storm ROUX, 3.Corey BROWN, 4.James DONACHIE, 6.Leigh BROXHAM, 7.Kenny ATHIU, 8.Jakob POULSEN, 9.Andrew NABBOUT, 10.Robbie KRUSE, 11.Ola TOIVONEN (c), 14.Thomas DENG, 16.Josh HOPE, 17.Elvis KAMSOBA, 18.Migjen BASHA, 19.Ben CARRIGAN, 20.Lawrence THOMAS (gk), 21.Adama TRAORE, 22.Kristijan DOBRAS, 24.Anthony LESIOTIS, 25.Brandon LAUTON, 50.Brendan WHITE (gk)

Ins: 2.Storm ROUX (returns from international duty), 7.Kenny ATHIU (returns from international duty), 9.Andrew NABBOUT (returns from injury), 14.Thomas DENG (returns from international duty), 17.Elvis KAMSOBA (returns from international duty)
Outs: 13.Birkan KIRDAR (omitted), 26.Jay BARNETT (omitted), 30.Matthew SUTTON (omitted)
Unavailable: 1.Matt ACTON (shoulder), 5.Tim HOOGLAND (quad)

Go Dobras and Poulsen!!!!

Both squads are pretty close to full-strength for this one. Should be interesting to see what MV's first choice front 3 can do. Will he switch to a 4-3-3 for this one? 

Hopefully Nabbout can play some meaningful minutes. I doubt he'll start?

No chance he will start, no guarantees Kruse will start either. My guess is Kruse will start and get 65 mins, Nabbout will get 20 mins.

MV can't keep losing forever, it will turn around at some point.

I'm nervous coz this is a typical Kurtz game to win.

Frankly I'd be happy with a draw here and then 2 wins in the next two home games vs Wellintgon and newcastle.

What about a loss here, and two wins or two draws?

-PB

Burn?

Hoogland was seen training with the team, he is not far away either.
When match fit, Kruse or Nabbout should be the attacking mid, and that leaves Elvis on his wing. Lauton might be best option
as central mid, if its not Poulsen going forward.

Kruse did play as a number 10 at Bochum from time to time, so its not a ridiculous suggestion. I'd like to see the front 4 rotate positions to make us less predictable. Both Kruse and Nabbout can also play as a striker. Ola can play as an AM. perhaps that is in Kurz's plan when we get everyone fit and firing?

Kurz has said that the club has yet to play the system he wants, so it is possible that once the squad is fully available we will see a different structure.

I hope so! I like the idea of Ola as a 10 and Nabbout playing striker.

Put the house on Adelaide winning 4-0 haha

-PB

Melb Victory will start to gain traction from about now and Kurz will start to feel the love eventually. Injuries are unfair. Rotating the front third is a ploy quite afew teams use to great affect,during matches.

Oh you were talking about Adelaide games lol

-PB

Aha yeah. Now I get it!
I couldn't work out if you were giving me shit for my comment being a bit redundant (ie. I'd be happy with 2 wins and a draw at home).

Kurz has said today that hoogland is in the squad for the adelaide match

Haha God no, Adelaide are killing it this season.

-PB

Nice! Hopefully in the next few weeks we can play our strongest 11 to start the match

We might actually be able to judge if our squad is bad or if missing so many key players have made us under perform soon.

Geeez, massively running out of gas here.

-PB

Confirmed, squad is shit

I would be happy to kurz sacked now.  I don't care about top 6. We won't even play football anymore. 

A Toivonen injury away from the wooden spoon.

Still think they will steady to finish 5th or 6th, midfield is absolute garbage though.