Tony Mowbray started Leon Dajaku up front at Luton because he felt he was 'letting Jack Clarke down' by playing him through the middle. The Black Cats have been without a fit centre-forward since the middle of September while Ross Stewart and Ellis Simms have been out of action, and recently Mowbray has opted to play Clarke - who is naturally a left-winger - in that central area as a stopgap solution.
But he feels that Clarke has more to offer out wide, saying he is an 'eight or nine out of ten' as a winger, but only a 'six out of ten' as a centre-forward. To make that change and restore Clarke to his preferred position, Mowbray brought in Dajaku, who is also a winger by trade, for his first start of the season in yesterday's 1-1 draw at Kenilworth Road.
"I brought him [Dajaku] in because we needed legs to get them [Luton] off our backs, if that makes sense," said Mowbray. They are a team that push you down, press you down, and with total respect to Pat [Roberts], he can't run in behind - there's only really Jack that can do that if I put him through the middle.
