I said last week that Hippolyte, despite being quite a terrible lW and an average LWB is way more suited to CM. Barton thought I was mad when I commented on it a few weeks ago.
If you think back to when we got our last win and looked like we were turning a corner before Cox tore the team up, Hippolyte and Pugh was a big reason for that in midfield.
Superb today…certainly no winger but he strangely looks at home in CM. This is the last place I thought he’d thrive but to be fair to him he looks good in there.
Hackney is starting to bed in now “took him long enough”. Millen who has looked absolutely dreadful so far looks like he’s up to fitness now and put in a really good performance.
Pugh looks a pretty good defensive midfielder as well screening the back 4. Watson had another stormer.
Still think we need to send Wood back, get O’neil out the club on loan and see if we can sign another striker and a left sided player.
All in all though, relieved to get the 3 points and thought we looked pretty good today. Cox nearly self sabotaged though as Hippolyte was running CM with Hackney and taking those two off we lost control of midfield and conceded too much of the ball again towards the end.
