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Nice analysis, but I do see some issues.
If we bring in an attacking LFB, and drop the RFB back, we have the LFB and Son occupying the same space as Son seems to like to play as a LW and it seems that Dele likes to drift left in support. On the other side, with Moura playing inside right, we lose the width and crossing that Aurier is currently providing. If Coco plays, he tends to start on the right, but cut in rather than attack the byline.
At CB, one of our current problems is that we are playing Toby out of position at LCB to accommodate the uni-footed Sanchez. I do like the sound of Verts at LFB as he has shown the ability to carry the ball forward and is arguably our best crosser of the ball. I can picture his crosses from deep terrorising defences, particularly on transitions.
I think the thing we learnt last night is that Jose will set his side up on a game-by-game basis (or even half-by-half) and will pick the players and formation that will do a job on any given day.
Yeah it's a difficult one regarding the Son/Dele triangle because it does work well, I'm not sure I have a good answer other than we're lucky that Son can play either side but not sure where that leaves Dele. If we had the fullbacks pushing up either side I think it'd work with Dele working majority on the left.