Benitez, like Ancelotti before him, stumbled on / was left no alternative, etc, on to a formation and 11 that sorta worked.
I asked will he...seen as it worked...stick with it, run with it, possible fine tune it etc - or revert to type.
We have our answer - Revert...this is the guy who my rs bro in law tells me, once played a very good, box to box goalscoring midfielder...Slippy...at R B.
The biggest problem(s?)...apart from him himself...wasn't the 2 RBs, Coleman was not much worse than the recent off form Digne...even if he did, at times, look a bit lost.
It was right down the middle;
DCL, will obvs need games in his legs...But he, like Richo and da do Rondon are Isolated
2 in MF will mostly get over run.
Godfrey looked lost..."He says, Why am I soft in the middle, now?
Why am I soft in the middle?"...am I in a 3 or a 5, am I left, right or centre?
Holgate?...
He says, "Why am I short of attention?
"Got a short little span of attention"
Keane?
"Who'll be my role model
Now that my role model is gone, gone?"
Call me Al
As for who will replace Benitez, we have 2 candidates - Betty and the little bat faced girl...anybody ffs.
FFP; "We hold no currancy"
And we deffo need "A shot of redemption"