Ludicrous. A whole lot of you talk as if you know nothing about football.
Spuds came out with Bale at left back in a 4-3-3, they played narrow and we took the width in the 1st half, bossed control and stuffed down our right, even as we lost yet another one of our defenders. Surprisingly Dyer came out and played nice and danced down the right and then we scored. Our 4-4-1-1 tactic just happened to help us stay wide and also criss-cross the midfield as the Spuds got stuck with no width and no speed down the left.
2nd half they switched tactics and formation, came out and matched us with their 4-4-1-1- releasing Bale down the left but we stuck with what we had, TRIED to play the same way but Hughes didn't recognize quickly enough that we lost our width as they also filled in the width, and Granero played like he had no breath or touch today and should've been pulled out. We should've switched to a 4-5-1 (or, basically, 4-1-4-1 and held on the width and middle back to keep them out, but when they countered - lo and behold - because we kept our width up the field we only had 2 at the back instead of 3 and they hit us. Cesar made a great attempt, but unfortunately that fell to Defoe as well and the rest is history.
If Hughes doesn't know how to react in defense to what the opponent is doing when we're up, and scrambling by inserting a striker (yawn.... so typical), this is how it's going to be all season.
Goodbye Hughes. Go and learn how to defend and change formation.