To be honest, I think the partnership of Stephens and Yoshie was better last season than anything we have suffered this season with Vestergard and Hoedt involved
Can't say I'm hugely delighted to see Stephens starting. If we were going to a back four, I'd have had Bednarek as Hoedt's partner.
So 4-4-2 away from home against a fluid passing team and... Lemina and Pierre as the CM's? Wes and Jack as the CB's? If we don't score first we're gonna get absolutely ****ing mullered.
Bompey are quick in attacking, Stephens and Yoshie are our quickest CBs by some distance with Hoedt third and Bedders and Vestergard miles behind
Has an established PL team ever fielded a worse CB pairing than Hoedt and Stephens? Challenge for those with time to kill...
The other 3 are better than those two at present (by quite a distance in Jacks case imo). Maybe that's why we're ****?