[WBA-Josh]

Both Ideye and Varela will come good with proper first team football. Varela has shown what he can bring and he will become even better with more match sharpness. Ideye may not have shown much in front of goal yesterday but his movement off the ball and positioning was good.

Gamboa isn't a right midfielder but he could probably adapt and do a good job out there. I would rather see Sessegnon or Blanco there instead but Gamboa is a good option to offer pace in attack and cover for Wisdom in defence.

I think we ended up hanging on due to the players not following instructions. Irvine was signalling for them to push higher up but they instead kept dropping back which I think is due to their confidence levels. If they were fully confident they would have stayed higher up the pitch and pressured Villa but due to them being low on confidence, which happens after only gaining 1 point from 5 matches, they found it best to just drop back and try to hang on.

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Drewks, Varela gives us exactly what we have been missing for the past few years. Jerome Thomas used to give us good width and pace but Hodgson changed him and his impact in the attacking sense reduced. Get Varela fully match fit and sharp and he will give us so much.

The final piece of the puzzle is getting our Argentinian munchkin fit and firing.