Quote Originally Posted by Bohinen View Post
Last issue for me is Shola and 4-4-2. I don't have the statistics, but it seems to me there is a direct correlation between us winning and him starting the game. Maybe it's his presence, maybe it's the formation, although starting Forte doesn't seem to have the same effect.
Agree about the correlation. It may seem pointless to focus on team selection when we were so comprehensively beaten, but the 3 players we left out from Saturday: Hewitt - gives us energy & grit in midfield, Shola - gives us a CF with presence & ability to hold the ball up, and Jones - gives us the pace at LB that we so sorely missed.

Playing Virtue and Husin as a midfield duo has now been tried 3 times and we've lost all 3 games. Having a midfield pairing with the combined age of Alan Smith (almost) surely was a big ask against our toughest opposition of the season?