- Apr 1, 2005
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Alli is young and hasn't played in the premier league. It makes sense for him to be a bench player who comes on with about half an hour, twenty minutes left, to demoralise and take on tired players - it'll be more beneficial for us and will help build his confidence. Right now, you put him on against someone like Charlie Adam or whoever and the second he tries a step over he'll get sodomised and be out for months.
Start him in cup games, sure, or in Euro games, give him a taste of the kick off here and there but to shove him straight into the side in front of players like Mason, Bentaleb, Dembles, etc. would make no sense.
What's that got to do with the price of fish? Dier is obviously being used in a DM role which he's done before, apparently with some success, and hasn't shamed himself at all thus far - why would we take out a DM and add ANOTHER attack focused midfielder? Are you of the "score one more than you" camp? Don't care if we concede twelve, as long as we score thirteen?
Bet Ozzie would've loved to have gotten his hands on our squad with the formations he used to play (Y)
He's played against players who are just as tough as adams in league 1. He has started against man utd, got 3 assists and motm. He has played over 70 games at senior level. He was nutmegging real madrid players in front of thousands of people.
Let him start and see what he can do.