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?