"The two or three times I’ve tried to change us, including Brighton at home and Norwich, where we started with a 5-3-2 and played three in the middle of the park, it didn’t really work. I quickly worked out at Norwich that we didn’t have the players with the capability to play the way I’d envisaged. Norwich played through us repeatedly. I learnt from that day, and it’s happened again. Looking at the way the team is happiest, you’d say we’ll play with five at the back, with two No 10s, and we’ll sit deep and play on the counterattack. We changed for that game, and we changed because that is the way they had played for six months.
"Everywhere you look, you’ve got to be big and physical and have the ability to run. Unfortunately that is one thing here now, from the back to my midfield, we haven’t got. Until we’ve got that, we’re going to have to sit deep and play on the counter attack. Is the team equipped to stay up? Yeah, certainly. Look, we had a horrible, horrible day last week. When you look at the physical stats of it, we’re not doing enough. Maybe we didn’t show enough resilience, I agree. There is not a dispute that the players are with me. I haven’t witnessed anything like that. The only thing you can try now is to have a response after a horror show like that.”