Missing point here perhaps is that our formation is different - even against Brum and Valencia, Stephens was higher up the pitch than we're used to seeing in the bus-parked formation of last season. The question is which of our 4 CMs will be most effective under Potterball, recognising tactics...
This...........it shouldn't be too difficult to understand. Also Stephens & Propper have had no serious competition for their places over the last two seasons (club aim of having cover for every position has been a bit lacking there), that has now been fixed. I'm not going to slag him off...