Stoke City - Nottingham Forest

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I think Johnson is a significant factor. He offers nothing defensively which is fine if his selection is resulting in the scoring or creation of goals. But it's not, he's a passenger and playing him makes CH feel he has to play 2 CDM's to balance it out. Put Cafu in there behind Grabban and you could maybe get one of Yates or Colback playing more progressively. At least Cafu would be willing to receive the ball in that central area. That being said, it might result in the full backs being exposed more which would be problematic if they're young Back and not so young Bong.

Maybe just drop Johnson and do a straight swap with Carvalho? He couldn't do any worse.