 This video is sponsored by OneFootball. OneFootball's app makes it easy to keep up to date with transfer news, scores and stats all in the one place. To download the OneFootball app, click the link in the description. The app is free. Winning the ball back in midfield, that's what has been the difference in our defense this year versus last. He's just been amazing and consistently one of our best players. And when I heard that he wasn't going to be in the sign, I figured probably a point is what I would like the most out of this game. I didn't really see three in it for us, but I understand that, you know, anything can happen. That being said, I understood five at the back. I don't think it worked perfectly, but I do think it kind of worked for the most part, if you'll hear me out. Given that Ghana was not going to play and that we had them rotating all three centerbacks recently, I thought that it made sense with the situation to move to three at the back, five at the back, whatever you want to call it, and just kind of sit back and play defensively solid and just kind of break out on the wings and see if we can't nick a goal. Unfortunately, there were a couple flaws with the system. One was that we weren't playing out of the back while mean it especially. I think what they really took advantage of the most was the fact that our centerbacks didn't know how to communicate in the back three well enough to maybe try to system out against one of the best teams in the world like Manson. I think both goals coming from crosses highlight a lack of communication, a lack of understanding of positioning. And while one was during the back five and one was during the back four, both of them to me signal a problem with how our defense was structured. I still think five at the back was the right play with no Ghana, but unfortunately it just didn't work. But for me, that wasn't the difference today between the two sides. For me, it was finishing. They took their chances and we squandered ours. And the main thing of that is we need to fix our attack in the final third and we need to find a true center forward. Now, I don't know if that means transfers coming in January or just start by trying to bring in some youth from the younger ranks. I'm not saying start a kid who's never played in the Premier League before, but get them on the bench for games, play them last five minutes of games. You know, just play them in a cup game. We have to either bring in talent in January, which is expensive and hard to find. Or we need to focus on the players that we have in our youth system and start bringing them through. Another problem with our attack in the final third as far as I'm concerned is just my opinion is that Theo Wolcott is playing far too much. He starts or gets subbed on every game and he doesn't make enough of a difference to justify his playing time. Now, I appreciate that Theo works really hard and he tries to get in good spaces. He runs at defenders and he does try to track back. Unfortunately, he's failing to make connections in the final third, failing to hold onto the ball in the final third, and he's not finishing. If his end product isn't there, I don't know what he brings to the side other than just raw pace. In my opinion, he can't keep getting in game after game after game without producing more. As far as I'm concerned, I would rather have the youthful exuberance of Adam Ola Lukman than Theo's consistent errors. For me, when Lukman is on the ball, he provides an excitement and a spark that Wolcott is just not providing right now. I'm not sure if either are long term answers at the position, but I'm done with Theo Wolcott. It's just not good enough. Just like Silva did with Jank, maybe it's time to take him out for a few games, get his head right in practice, get his head right off the pitch, and see if he can't come back in a few games and provide a difference. And that brings me to Silva. I have to criticize his first set of substitutions. I hated those first two subs. They didn't make any sense to me. First off, if you're going to take Coleman out, which I understand he hasn't been great as of recent, why is John Joe Kenny not on the bench instead of, say, Morgan Schneiderlin? If you're going to take him off and move to four at the back as well, John Joe Kenny makes even more sense because then you have someone to put in that position and you can take off Yari Mina, who has been playing not that great in the first half, and then throw on a forward, have an actual four at the back. Goma is sitting in front of them, then you got three in midfield, and then you can play both Kelvin Lewin and Rich Arleson up top. It just didn't make sense to me that you thought playing Kurt Zuma on the right in a back four would be a good idea.