What would you solution be? personally I would be tempted to put Dier and Winks in the deeper areas to speed up the play and maybe put Dembele back to his original position further forward so we have a guy up top who can beat players but quite frankly I am not sure.
Our defensive balance looks great our attacking looks square pegs round holes.
Id play Dier and Dembele in CM. It works, and does'nt need to be tampered with now Toby is back. I was surprised by Dier's omission today.
Dembele becomes free when Dier plays...I like Wanyama, he should play alongside Dier when Dembele is out, or if we need to go that way tactically, but for me, not in his place.
I think we underestimate just what Dembele brings to our attack in the old midfield...I think he plays a deeper role alongside Wanyama than he does with Dier. Wanyama is always one mistimed header away from a counter for the oppo, and Dembele is aware of that. He covers him, and we lose his forward play.
Without Lamela (and I fear he will also feel the wrath from fans expecting too much of him) we have a disrupted front line, but there is more than enough quality to cope.
Honestly, Id give them more freedom...its very annoying when 90% of our chances fall to Son, instead of Janssen or Kane. Kane has to run more....he should'nt be this Berbatov character, ambling around having to be clever, its a waste of talent. And Eriksen needs to open his eyes and practice some defence splitting passes along the floor when we have people running. He can hit a mean ball over the top, but lacks vision around the box.
Alli just needs to be young and raw.....we are discipling the very essence of what he is, out of him. A 19yr old shouldnt have to think like a 30yr old.