The advantage of a 4-2-3-1 is that six of the back seven are solid, and you limit problems to the front four.
Hart
Cole/Baines Lescott Somebody (Not Smalling, maybe Cahill or Jagielka, maybe even Ferdinand) Walker/Richards
Barry Parker
(Okay, here's where the problems start)
Young Welbeck Walcott
Anyone but Rooney/Who the hell knows?/Bent, Zamorra, Crouch????--no fan of Sturridge, sorry, plays 1 on 11 too much.
Hart
Cole/Baines Lescott Somebody (Not Smalling, maybe Cahill or Jagielka, maybe even Ferdinand) Walker/Richards
Barry Parker
(Okay, here's where the problems start)
Young Welbeck Walcott
Anyone but Rooney/Who the hell knows?/Bent, Zamorra, Crouch????--no fan of Sturridge, sorry, plays 1 on 11 too much.