It's a blend of youth and very poor experience. Macheda is 20; Gibson I can only hope is in the shop window for a January transfer; Berbatov, Evans and Park are all at least fourth or fifth choice now. And whilst our strength in depth is pretty poor we are also missing a lot of players through injury who would probably be contenders for this match (Anderson, Cleverley, Owen and Welbeck would all be likely to be in the squad, or the players who filled in for them against Newcastle would be). Still a pretty poor show.