Nigel Pearson’s selection at Blackpool essentially comes down to two factors: With Andi Weimann and without Andi Weimann.
It’s testament to the importance of the Austrian that his availability at Bloomfield Road has such a huge bearing on how the rest of the team looks, although if Pearson does have to make changes they’ll like be minimal given Bristol City’s form over these last five matches.
Four wins in league and cup, 12 goals scored and just three conceded, the Robins have successfully dispelled any lingering anxiety from the opening two games of the season which were, if we’re being honest, a little knee-jerk and over the top, as the manager himself intimated in midweek in the wake of their latest win over Wycombe Wanderers.