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Questions, questions, questions...

Who would want to be in John Toshack's shoes today?

A mere 72 hours after the Millennium Stadium horror show, with visions of Saturday no doubt still fresh in his mind, Tosh has much to ponder - not least who starts against Cyprus tomorrow night.

Does he stick with 5-3-2, seen by many as a busted flush, or does he hold 4-4-2 as his preferred hand.

Of course, with limited personnel his options are just that, limited. If I was him I would dispense with 5-3-2 - at home Toshack needs to be bold, attack from the outset and get at the Cyprus defence. That's why I can see 4-4-2 as the only viable option, playing with true widemen would offer protection to his full-backs and offer a balance to a side that was pulled apart and left horribly shapeless at times against Slovakia.

He needs to inject pace and guile to the side and give it a fluid attacking look. That's why I say play Paul Parry - the on fire Cardiff winger - from the outset on the left with a remit to run at the Cypriots and cause some havoc.

The midfield would include Jason Koumas weaving some magic on the right, Davies attacking from the apex of midfield and Robinson holding in the middle, with Parry flying down the left.

Up front Earnshaw and Bellamy look an impotent pairing with Earnie, despite his goalscoring form at Norwich, looking horribly out of sorts at international level.

The two diminutive strikers just haven't gelled and despite limited options Toshack has to try something new. Wales have gone hours without a goal from open play - which tells its own story.

While not exactly the game to experiment with your front pairing, I'd plump for Wigan Athletic's tricky, pacy striker David Cotterill to take the second striking berth alongside Craig Bellamy.

Cotterill is a raw talent indeed, but Wigan splashing out £2m on his services in the recent transfer window, speak volumes of his Premiership potential. The box-of-tricks youngster would certainly offer something different going forward and would be an unknown quantity on the spy sheets of the Cypriot coach.

If Toshack wants to err on the side of caution, while harnessing a potent attacking threat, he could tinker with his midfield and harness the mazy, bewitching skills of Jason Koumas in the hole behind Bellamy with a midfield four of Parry on the right, Davies and Robinson in the centre and Cardiff’s exciting left sided midfielder Joe Ledley out wide.

This can operate as a 4-4-2 going forward and a 4-5-1 defending. There’s certainly enough attacking intent in both line-ups to give Wales a fighting chance of banishing their Slovakian demons and earning their first points of the Euro 2008 campaign.

At the back, well it could be a case of closing your eyes and hoping for the best.

The first casualty has to be Paul Jones. Sad to say, but despite his loyal service to the Welsh cause Jones has become a liability. As well as his painfully poor display aginst the Slovaks, his cubersome keeping cost us against the Czechs, when he was responsible for their winner - punching when he could have caught a cross that was subsequently played back in to the Welsh box only to be scrambled in past a static Jones.

Ipswich keeper Lewis Price has to now be given the go ahead between the sticks and offered the chance to make the number one shirt his own.

In front of Price, the options are threadbare. Despite his fault-filled display against Slovakia, Portsmouth right-back Richard Duffy hasn't become a bad defender overnight and I'd certainly give him a chance to redeem himself, alongside Gabbidon and Nyatanga the centre-halves and the hugely impressive Gareth Bale, the left -back.

It's a massive ask but Toshack has to instill belief into his beleaguered troops, which may be his biggest problem of all, but at least this game gives his charges an immediate chance to remedy Saturday's maladies and in doing so cast some rays of sunshine on another wise dark few days for Welsh international football.

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