Lake Palmer aka Monk wrote:
... BUT the biggest thing that undermines all that is Cole leading the attack.

Or is it that Cole's position IS the attack.  The beginning of it, the middle of it and the end of it.

Swap Cole out and put in Valencia or Carroll or Benteke or Lukaku or Ian Rush or Ferenc fucking Puskas - if you don't get your supporting players actually supporting it's not going to make any substantial difference.

Surely the biggest thing that actually undermines it all is not attacking as a team unit in the same way we defend as a team unit (whilst remaining prone to the individual errors which are obviously the ONLY reason we ever concede...).

90 minutes of meaningless fitness work left - who's it against - not that it matters if it means nothing of course - Sampdoria?   I'll keep an eye on it whilst not getting too excited one way or the other for sure...