No Brede Hangeland in the Fulham starting line-up tonight. Smalling comes in at centre back. Greening could either play from the left or in central midfield, depending on whether Gera is pushed on to support Zamora. We won’t know until the game kicks off.
FC BASEL (4-4-2): Colomba; Cagdas Atin, Abraham, Safri, Inkoom; Huggel, Stocker, Cabral, Carlitos; Streller, Frei. Subs: Wessels, Gelabert, Schurpf, Almeraes, Shaqiri, Ferati, Sahin.
FULHAM (4-4-1-1): Schwarzer; Pantsil, Kelly, Hughes, Smalling; Etuhu, Murphy, Riise, Greening; Gera; Zamora. Subs: Stockdale, Hangeland, Briggs, Saunders, Duff, Dempsey, Uwezu.
REFEREE: Stefan Johannesson (Sweden).
so was Hodgson playing mind games with Basel? this is definitely not a second team.
Bobby Zamora – you beauty. Top centre forward play. But for that offside flag he’d have a hat-trick. Beautiful.