Seemed a 433 2nd half with him left Allan central and Doucoure right. Worked quite well. Until the last 15. When they got in top and we got sloppy. Especially Allan. Again not having a natural holding player does affect us IMO.
If we can shift a few ie delph/Gomes. Maybe Benitez would go for that type of midfielder. Because all the others seem to prefer going forward, after the opposition.
Again some players showed they aren’t good enough like Kenny, who is so poor. And again as they started to press us Holgate, constantly goes backwards. Not brave enough to try and pass his way out trouble or even run. You know that a Godfrey late on would have probably tried to run his way out of trouble abs also at the same time get us in the counter attack.
I’m sure Benitez knows which players he can build his team around going forward, whether he can replace the ones that he can’t, is another thing