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Nests was great, but not as good as Maldini or Baresi for me. Gentile was good as well.

Very good point and they do, especially when Hughton was manager.

I think everyone would prefer a 4-4, but if Albion were involved rather than critically analysing our poor finishing, we’d be bemoaning our poor defending 😃. (Well I would anyway 😂) But I would argue that good defending is not about time wasting, or basically playing like Villa, it’s about...

Take your point, but isn’t it up to the attacking team to break it down, perhaps in an imaginative way? For me, that ingenuity is still what’s missing (despite our recent glut of goals).

😂😂👍 Definitely, not only defending but defensive systems as well 😉. See Hughton and Don Howe…… Love Italian defending, even the dark arts part which still go on, then as per @jcdenton08 the cultured element of Baresi, Maldini etc… Then our own Dunk, Webster and Veltman all slightly different...