All starts from the back. If players have confidence in the defence, it gives them confidence to push forward more, play higher up the pitch and take more chances going forward. No confidence in defence and you play deep, don't get forward too much, and don't take chances unless you make a mistake....

Exactly...if you don't concede you'll never lose

The Voice of Reason In An Otherwise Mediocre World

Hope Roy H. play Sakho for half a game, those dirty kicking ba...rds from Huddersfield might send him back to the treatment table. Would like to see Damien D. play tonite and give some pay-back from the way they injured (on purpose) Zaha in first game.

Howcan

Not lately, van Aanholt has been poor so far this season and it looks as though de Boer has f***ed him up like Milivojevic, although there aren't any stories of what might have been said between the two. Schlupp isn't really a left back at all but plays there as a second string; his pace makes him more effective further forward.

The only reason for not playing Souare now that he's available is that that was one f***er of an injury to come back from and nobody knows yet whether he'll be as strong as he was before it happened. We will know more about that by bedtime tonight, I guess.

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