The thing what worries me is that Dean didn’t think to himself “what happens if this doesn’t work and need to resort to 4/4/2”, if he did then Shields would have been on the bench.
Dean could have gone 4/4/2 with Wilson on the left and Feeney on the right but clearly couldn’t spot the fact we had no width. What was the point in going out and signing what looks like a good, pretty well rounded target man at 6ft 4 if you don’t play with width and you don’t get hardly any balls in the box ?
Looks like he’s hell bent on playing a target man but doesn’t set the team up to play as if we’re fielding one, which is a bit strange. I honestly don’t know what he’s trying to do. Perfect time today to let the shackles off and play with more conviction with them going down to 10 men and yet Dean went into an ultra conservative shell.
