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When we got to our seats Villa were out warming up and we weren't. They stayed for a good 5 mins at least. And I assume they had a plan B if we had named a back 5 and were able, on the coach, to confirm among the team what formation they thought we'd use and what that meant for Ings and...

I specifically didn't say "decide on the team" because I know that. He had 90 mins instead of 60 after the team sheets to strategize and they warmed up after us, We're out on the pitch and he's on the coach really making sure the forwards know their jobs.

We only made one change and yet had Duffy and Offiah on the bench. We could have nullified it by going to a 3CB / 2WB scenario but we didn't react to it. What Gerrard also doesn't mention is that he had an extra 30 mins to construct his cunning plan due to the coach delay. We had already named...

An awful lot of truth in that. On the "pi$$ poor home games" thread I posted a number of times with positional diagrams from whoscored.com We clearly were NOT using wingbacks and the gap between Velman and Dunk was too big, as were the gaps from them to their full backs. Targeting aerial balls...