I know Ben played well, he is no Suarez by any stretch, but he is a better target man than the rest of the heifers we bought.
With that said it's very worrying that for the bulk of the game our whole tactic was either hoof ball or getting ben to hold it up. thats not a sustainable system.
We can't bring Ben in and become Villa, we need to elevate him to a better style, not demote ourselves to that of the previous club.
i normally disagree with most things you say but you're right here. having said that, i think the plan might be to try win home games and just grind out some kind of results in that horrible run of away games we have.
as this all happens, we can ease sturridge back in. i think this will give us options. of course sturridge will get injured again but hopefully we can get a few months from him by which stage other players will have settled in a bit so we don't have to be the new villa & solely dependent on benteke.