"Villas-Boas is really not one to sit on the fence.
Gut instinct suggested André Villas-Boas's team selection bordered on professional suicide. Having lost John Terry early in the day with an exploratory arthroscopy on his knee to come, he chose to start without Frank Lampard – a player not at the height of his powers but the most experienced midfielder available – and Michael Essien. Ashley Cole was deemed fit enough to come on early having initially been left out for José Bosingwa, the manager having therefore initially asked an inconsistent right-back to fill in on the opposite flank. The risks to dressing room harmony were obvious. Yet Villas-Boas has admitted some of the players are not buying into his approach. In that context he could point to this team and claim that, if his tenure was to unravel, then at least he would be going down with players who were with him."
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