A combination of both, as far as I'm concerned. We lined up pretty close to how I wanted from a personnel standpoint (only one man off), and played exactly like I wanted from a tactical one as we took full advantage of a Derby side reminiscent of us last week. And the week before. Defenders: No point talking about defensive work, because what Derby put together could not be considered an attack. But even a half fit Lee reminded us how important he is to our formation. Confident on the ball, barely put a foot wrong, and makes a mockery of the idea that you have to have goals and assists to be a key attacking ingredient. Chimbonda was the same on the other side and actually won a couple of those far post headers for once.

There've been a lot of match reports and analysis in the fallout of the Everton match, but some crazy looking site called Electric New Paper has one of the better write-ups. Rather than churning out the usual dross (boo ...

There's been a big thread over on Glory Glory the past day or so where one poster claims to have inside info on today's starting lineup against Everton, with the lazy bastards at the Mirror since publishing the same news (although they probably just nicked it from the message board). The big news? Darren Bent and Dimitar Berbatov up front, no surprise, and Robbie Keane on the right wing... i'm sorry, what? Robbie Keane on the right wing is baffling because we've decided to play an out of position striker there instead of a midfielder and also chosen to put Malbranque out of position again on the left. Keane has played on the left of midfield fairly often in Jol's tactical shifts during a match, so by putting him on the right not only is he a striker in midfield, he is also on the wrong side.

Sporting Life is reporting, with no quotes or source of course, that Martin Jol is thinking about shuffling the strikers for the Everton match. But while there's an argument that you have to give Dimitar Berbatov and Robbie Keane ...