I don’t like the idea of playing musical chairs with the positions. Romero is a world class RCB. Dragusin is a promising player overall but I think moving Romero from his natural position where he’s one of the best in the world to fit in Dragusin is just weakening us even further.It's not even a VDV role, he just showed he cannot play on the left side of defence. We had zero build up from our left all game.
If Dragusin is to play, we have to play Romero on the left in my opinion.
I thought Dragusin was pretty dreadful yesterday but a lot of what I thought went wrong was simply apprehension with what he should be doing in our system and his understanding with Udogie. There were so many moments that both had no clue when to pick up and hand off players that were shifting on Fulham’s right side. He needed to be more assertive and controlling as the CB on that side. That can be ironed out with time.
Pros I saw were that he definitely came as advertised with his header clearances and he made a few gallops into the final third similar to what VDV does.