When we were winning games in that Christina period under Ancelotti with the ‘wall’ at the back of Holgate Keane Mina Godfrey, fans would often say ‘he should get Digne back in the side and we’ll create more going forward’ but every time he tried to do that we ended up losing games because Digne did not stop crosses and we would concede whereas we very rarely scored from anything he created up the other end.
When we have decent strikers, wide players, and attacking midfielders, then we might want to look at whether full backs should contribute in the build up play, but at the moment it would be crazy for a manager to look at this group of players and decide to try and blast his way out of trouble. Absolutely crazy.