Remembering Dier's expeditionary tackle on Ramos, hopefully with his experience he can play the aggressor of the two centre backs as Romero has been, and one of Phillips and Dorrington has the pace to play the recovery role which VDV has been - a simpler, more reactive job for their lesser experience.
Maybe we can still field a backline which isn't fatally flawed.
Phillips and Dorrington have been mentioned a few times on here now but they werent even in the match squad yesterday.
Presumably dier or emerson take it on and if they really cant handle it maybe then we turn to others but i expect they get a decent run at it first.