When you talk about our defence its amazing what a difference Ledley King makes and Kaboom is coming along very nicely. Not missing Dawson at all atm.
Modric and Parker look like they have played together for years and we've still got Sandro to come back.
It's amazing considering we are sporting so many injuries in our defence. We've got Walker and Corluka for the right-back position, and Assou-Ekotto and Rose for the left-back position. We are missing Gallas and Dawson through injury, and yet can serve up King and Kaboul.
Agreed regarding the midfield, many were critical about only signing Parker and Adebayor but both of them have turned out to be superb buys - at least so far - they both have gelled very well with the team.
Scary to think that Huddlestone, Sandro, Lennon (?) are all out, not to mention that VDV isn't fully fit either.
It will be interesting to see how we juggle the squad over the season, particularly given that VDV is a player that won't accept being on the bench all the time.
My full-strength line-up is;
Friedel
Walker
Dawson
King
Assou-Ekotto
VDV
Parker
Modric
Bale
Defoe
Adebayor
In the game, we seemed to be playing with a right winger from fullback; Walker was having a field day by playing in that role. It exposes us in defence but that's just the way we play. When VDV came on for Kranjcar he played in the centre and Walker kept going forward like he had when Kranjcar was on, it leaves us vulnerable on the fringes if a team counters. That's the way I would play it personally, it's also good to note that Adebayor kept moving onto the left and right wings throughout the game, usually to hold the ball up. If Lennon starts improving/playing very well then it makes it less complicated.
