Madeley with an absolute load of bollocks article about how we should "never play a back four in the PL".
1) Ever? As in literally forever? Irrespective of playing squad, manager, tactical trends, the opposition? Why does this only apply to Wolves and not a single other club? Don't be so bloody stupid.
2) Gets it wrong on Lage by saying he started with a back four and changed it after leaking goals. Not unless you count pre-season he didn't. He played three CHs for his entire first season. Lage failed regardless as he's shit and a tosser who fell out with everyone.
3) Says Lopetegui "came closest to making it work" but he "often switched to a five". He didn't come close, he did make it work. We played a back four and stayed up after being bottom of the league. He also didn't often switch to a five, that's just not true.
4) Pins the blame on Saturday on the formation. I think we mostly agree that it was the wrong game to make the switch but a) you could argue he has nothing to lose, b) it's the personnel that was the issue, and c) it was individual errors that put us behind the 8 ball, they could have happened in any formation, when it's Doherty who's spent a career doing that and Mosquera who charges around like a lunatic all the time.
5) Says the second half proves we should never change it. Nothing to do with Chelsea being 3-0 up and taking their foot off the gas, no sir.
6) What about all the home games in the last five years where we've had three centre halves holding hands, looking after one striker, and we create nothing? What about all the times in Edwards' reign where he's started a back three, we've gone behind, changed to a four and looked more threatening?
Really poor stuff from a paywalled site.