Sherwood said: “We’ve got Nacer Chadli - for me his best position is going to be off the front - and Erik Lamela. I think he will play in the hole behind the main striker.
“They haven’t played really so it’s hard to judge them. I don’t see it as a risk. I won’t be banging on the door saying ‘I need this player or that one’. Whoever you bring in would be a risk anyway because he has got to settle.
“These boys are halfway through the settling-in period so I don’t want to bring somebody else in and knock them back.
“We will crack on with what we have got – and I believe in them. I believe they can do a job and we will change the way we play, maybe.
“I’m looking for a change of style, possibly, to freshen it up - and we have the options within the squad already.”
When Sherwood was asked whether he means he is developing a Plan B, in addition to the 4-4-2 system he has preferred so far, he replied: “Not a plan B.
“A lot is made of formations. I see it quoted in papers and the pundits making a lot of it - either 4-4-2 or 4-3-3. It’s all a load of rubbish.
“It’s all about principles of how you play - shuffling across, being responsible in defensive areas, filling up in the middle of the park and having attacking options when you go forward.
“It doesn’t matter about formations. Football formations don’t win games, football players win games. I keep saying it so it’s boring, but it really is as simple as that.
“What did Manchester United play under Fergie [Sir Alex Ferguson]? 4-4-2? I think so. That’s what everybody said and they won everything.
“Arsenal, who are probably one of the best football teams at the moment, what do they play? 4-3-3? Who knows?
“When you’re out of possession, you’re always out of balance. It’s about how you shuffle back in and defend it.”
