The issue with the defence (as well as them not playing that well individually right now) is lack of protection in front, not behind. Cooper hasnt been brilliant over the past few weeks but drop him for a 37 year old who looked past it at this level 3 years ago? Really?
3-1-4-2, especially with Fornah as the 1, needs to go. We need to play 2 DM's. Teams are forcing us to go long by not pressing our back 3 and just cutting off the supply to our midfield - to solve this, our right and left centre backs need to overlap more. When they do, one of the DM's can drop in and cover.
We could argue about which of the 5 centre backs to pick until we're blue in the face, but to some extent they were all crap last night. So I'd play the trio that have only conceded once in their 180 minutes together on Saturday.
Cooper
Aimson
Canavan
Watts
Fornah
Reeves
Edwards
Mayor
G Cooper
Jephcott
Hardie
Subs: McCormick, Opoku, Grant, Camara, Moore, Telford, Nouble.