What Steve Cooper needs to change ahead of Leicester City’s Aston Villa challenge

What I mean by that is probably best understood when looking at the Spurs opening match. Progression and creation are handled by a simple overload in attacking midfield, aided by a few positions behaving fluidly when in possession: fullback marauds forwards becoming a winger, striker pulls back to hold up, and a winger moves in-field to interchange with striker and attacking midfielder. This is the basic premise on which Leicester City play.

Now then, with the current line-up posed by the Welshman, this only happens on the left of the pitch. James Justin can go forward, but is better suited to being your defensive core, and Abdul Fatawu typically stays outwide ready to blast past defenders. This means the pride of the East Midlands have two different wing-play options: an infield option with Bobby De-Cordova Reid on the left in tandem with Victor Kristiansen, and an explosive forward in Fatawu.

In and of itself this is fine - having options and variations is a good thing after all - however, it does limit the effectiveness of the overload when Reid and Kristiansen are the two enabling it. It would be more useful to have a player on the right who can play the same way when the ball is on the right, and a player on the left who is of a higher attacking calibre than Reid. Pereira and Mavididi. The pair ought to start to give us that flexibility and quality.