Thierry Small called up to what is basically the England U20s, who saw that coming?
I did say I thought Thierry had the highest ceiling/potential of any of our players including Leaburn a few weeks ago. He was Everton's youngest ever player at 16.1/2 and just checked and he had represented England in the younger groups.
I would play Small and Edwards and give Small licence to attack and keep whipping in those crosses similar to the good left footed crosses against the Chelsea 18-20 year olds. When you have Leaburn, Gassan or Godden why wouldn't you use their height or heading ability. We make the pitch so narrow with our box midfielders where we need to utilise the width against most sides.
Even with the box midfield you can still push your full back up as you have two defensive 6's in midfield plus two mobile CB 🤞🏻 with the 4-4-2 box if you don't play the diamond.
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So we'll only be without Wollacott for the Barnsley tie
With our mounting injuries we can't get this weekend cancelled against the free-scoring Peterborough
Thankfully we've got Danny Hylton poised and ready like a coiled spring.
I did say I thought Thierry had the highest ceiling/potential of any of our players including Leaburn a few weeks ago. He was Everton's youngest ever player at 16.1/2 and just checked and he had represented England in the younger groups.
I would play Small and Edwards and give Small licence to attack and keep whipping in those crosses similar to the good left footed crosses against the Chelsea 18-20 year olds. When you have Leaburn, Gassan or Godden why wouldn't you use their height or heading ability.
We make the pitch so narrow with our box midfielders where we need to utilise the width against most sides.
Even with the box midfield you can still push your full back up as you have two defensive 6's in midfield plus two mobile CB 🤞🏻 with the 4-4-2 box if you don't play the diamond.