I worry about the 4-4-2 approach. His Spurs side were wide open with that system, and we don't have the quality they did to make up for it.
It is a worry particularly as the Villa park pitch is a bit bigger than WHL aswell.
I'm not convinced for example that Sanchez can dominate in a middle two like he did in some games as a trio and reports say he had a poor game yesterday.
It will also mean our defence will be a lot more exposed and put on one on ones so with not great goalscoring that isn't a good idea.
Whenever we played 4-4-2 with MON we always looked unconvincing against top half teams and indeed we went on winless runs with that formation. That was with a much better set of players and feel around the club.
I was never against Lambert playing 4-3-3...just when our front players started to get found out playing that system there was no Plan B or alternative.