At the end of last season, Brendan remarked that it was the goals we conceded, when we won, which more cost us the league. He specifically mentioned the Stoke 5-3; Cardiff 6-3 and Swansea 4-3 games. You'd imagine then, that he has taken or will take steps to rectify that. He could do it with personnel and or better game management.
As far as personnel goes - last season - Sakho was seen as the solution to the Agger 'problem' and Mignolet, the solution to the Pepe 'problem'. That didn't quite work out as planned so it must have been Skrtel, Johnson & Flanagan who were the 'problem'. [setting aside the lack of security, in front of them, of course].
This season Dejan will solve the Skrtel 'problem', Moreno the Flanagan 'problem' and Manquillo the Johnson 'problem' but...
... [bringing back the lack of security, in front of them] the biggest improvement to our defensive unit, in my opinion, will come with security in midfield: Can being the most important change there. The switch [flipping the triangle] to play with 'two', in games we need to manage better, will be easier. It's only an opinion but Can (rather than Lovren etc) really could be the key to our back five looking as good as it did in the second half of 2012/13.
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