If pepe was playing currently, at his form of last season, and giovinco was warming the bench, i would offcourse be interested in seeing us play 4-3-3 against weaker teams
However, asamoah-lichtsteiner as wingbacks, combined with the immense partnership or 3man backline has developped, makes our 3-5-2 better then the 4-3-3 from last season.
If we werent missing conte, we would now have more points then we did last season to