Did we really have to though? seems to me it was a choice of Pardew not something that was forced upon him we had other options.
I mean, being nitpicky dude - but basically my point is we couldn't play a winger due to Marv being unable to handle 2 full matches in short order. So he decides to impose the contain, therefore also decides to play Bigi wide right to help defensively. Which if he wanted 45 mins to not concede it worked. Well done gaffer. But we have so little depth or squad, we couldn't even play a winger out there. We had to play another central defensive minded player. Where does this winger play? The ressies, yesterday.