If Amavi is left midfield it might just work. He said.
I reckon that's his 'thinking'. Get it on Gestede's head as often as possible. It could be very dull, but it might, just might, pay off.
If you're going to go long ball in the Premier League you have to be diamond-solid at the back, because you're going to spend most of the match without the ball. It's not the days of Watford and fun direct football anymore - if you go long you'll just give it away most of the time, and if you're as porous defensively as we are (and will continue to be today, I'd bet) then you're just manufacturing a perfect storm, whereby you have none of the ball and concede lots of chances.
Tim's tactics don't just strike me as wrong, today - they're exactly wrong, almost like he was trying.
Oh well, let's go.
