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To be honest, I was trying to defend tour wingers in the main. No one can expect them to be getting double figures for goals and assists if they spend the majority of the time defending, and if there's no one to hit when they do have the opportunity to try and create chances around the...

And the counter arguments are watching March play on the left which almost never works, plus the AK goal against Palace. That goal doesn’t happen if he’s on the left side. And whilst I appreciate your argument, it doesn’t matter what way a cross swings in if there’s no one there to get on the...

Fair enough. But I'm assuming you were saying the same thing on Saturday about Bournemouth as they ripped us apart with their own two inverted wingers in Brooks and Fraser?

It absolutely can be worse. The issue isn't the inverted wingers, it's how they're used. They're essentially defensive players first, rather than wingers. If your winger has to start 15 yards inside his own half before trying to carry the ball forward, then his footedness makes no difference...

Too right. That's a lot of pressure to heap on two players to get you 50 yards up the pitch every time. Although I would add Bissouma to that, in terms of the ability to get the ball forward whilst carrying it.

The biggest issue is this desire to cross the ball by floating passes in. As we saw with Bournemouth this weekend, a lot of top flight goals are scored by playing the ball across the box on the floor. We never do this and our players never seem intent on picking a pass in these positions. Part...

Statistically at least Knockaert and March have been consistent. They both create 1.2 chances per game which is generally very high; Gross creates over two per game which is the 6th highest in the league. The issue isn’t the wingers or their output, it’s how they’re used and also how few...