I think if he wants to play Brooks, Stan and Danjuma,which he should, then he can’t play 3-4-3 so that gives me hope although it’s also not usual for coaches to change from a system that they worked on all summer this early.
I agree with this. 4-3-3 with Brooks as the advanced midfielder links the midfield and forwards better, which I think was missing yesterday.
Conundrum is then either to drop one of the centre backs or push Kelly to left back, Rico is benched and either Smith or Stacey as right back. Stacey would edge it for me in that scenario, I really like his ability to get up and down, and stretch the opposition. Nice problems for Tindall to have!