Quote Originally Posted by City123 View Post
The individual ability of our defence was never the issue it was always the way we were set up.
I think injuries were also an issue in defensive terms.

If you look at the central defensive appearances list for that season, Gerrard led the way with 39 appearances. Hudson was next with 26, then Gypes with 16, while the central defensive partnership for all of the play-off games was Hudson and Blake. It was mentioned in commentary that Hudson had recently returned from a lengthy injury spell.