With a bit of luck Martin will have had them doing target practice on the training ground today.
Defoe has got to start alongside Kanoute (And ignore Wednesday’s fiasco) as this is the best partnership to have worked so far.
Atouba was OK at LB, not brilliant but OK and his link play with Ziegler looked good.
Still got problems on the right with Simon Davies badly out of form coupled with Ricketts being a bit lightweight, perhaps time to try Stephen Kelly in a wing back role?.
Either way as long as they remain focused and not feel sorry for themselves should have enough to get something at