DJ Barry Hammond

I know, but I look at that bench and wonder who he’s supposed to bring on and for who? Even at 2-1 he kept it as is. There was no physical presence on it apart from defenders. I may have gone Coady for Perrira as soon as Simms came on, but they scored as soon as that happened. Akgun would have been too light weight to bring in in midfield, no strikers. I think Enzo goes to the board and requests reinforcements on the back of this.

Robins managed that well - his changes made a difference. We could have done with a striker on the bench at the very least.

Thought he was one of our better performances today.

Look at the bench - there’s not obvious options on there.

I’d bring a third centre half on - Sims is a miss match. Not sure for who though.

Bugger.

Those calling for Casadei off - note who won the header, then see where he was when it went out for a goal kick. He’s having, miss aside, a tremendous game so far - just hope I haven’t jinxed it.

That’s very well played by not only KDH, but the whole side - the shape and structure defensively is excellent.

If you don’t like how we’re playing right now - just pretend we’re playing against a very shit Manchester City! 😂

That’s another 10 minute block down. The worry I have is this is a situation that requires fresh legs… but I’m not sure who we use and where.

Our system involves using the full 11 to make overloads and create space to move the ball into. We can’t make those overloads / space now without leaving ourselves open.

I see what they’re doing… Casadei drifts out and Winks steps up to make the 4. No left wing when attacking… but we’re not doing that much this half obviously.

Given Casadei seems to have the legs to run for days, I’d rather keep him middle… but maybe. Ideally you want fresh legs for the up top role.

This is going to be a LONG 30 minutes!

He’s also doing fairly well playing both centre and left midfield for now 😂 No striker on the bench is a problem. We’ll need to take off Cannon at some point I imagine.

Even though we have trouble defending set pieces?

Nope - he has to stay on full 90. He’s our out ball from goal kicks.

Note, he’s going to be targeted for long balls forward to. He has a key role here.

Kind of - I think we’ve left that flank open.

Not sure why you’d take Casadei off - he’s been a presence in the game throughout so far and his height in useful in both boxes.

Given how good Sakamoto’s been, I’m surprised we seem to be leaving the left flank open.

Don’t even go there! That must not happen!

The one against Birmingham got a lot of coverage didn’t it - refs watch these things too.

So… decisions are done and in the book. How do you think we’re setting up? Someone needs to go wide right - is that Mav, with KDH going left and Winks stepping up into a two man midfield?

You can guarantee if the roles are reversed we’re calling the ref a willy puller.