Now that Herd is availible after his rescinded red card, it is clear to me that it is vital that he starts for us. Especially now that Bannan is out of the equation we are low on midfielders, and the ones we do have availible are mediocre at best.
Herd gives us something that nobody else in our midfield does, and that's fight. He gets right in the faces of the opposition and gets stuck in. When was the last time we saw Petrov do that?
Away from home is where it is most noticeable. We let our opponents hav the ball in the middle of the park, give them all the time in the world to pick out a pass and don't pressure them at all. And then when we get the ball we get put under pressure straight away, we panic, then we lose possession. This has become a recurring theme away from home, and sometimes at Villa Park aswell.
Herd can gie us that fight in the middle of the park which can win us possession and force errors from the opposition. It seems like teams don't really worry when we come to visit them because we let them play their own game and don't dictate anything. This needs to change and I think the way to change it is to play Chris Herd.
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