More direct, more no-nonsense defending, less controlled, more getting in behind the opposition defence, more pressing.
Didn’t always keep possession as good as we should and missed some decent chances but that was refreshing to watch.
Good bit of dig and ‘almost’ bits of play - players not quite sure where to be yet at times but to be expected.
Need Hagi off for Sakala for a bit of pace on the break.
Would rather the next game was a domestic match so we can begin to put the weekend behind us. Europe won’t do that.
Don’t know what, if anything, this game will tell us.
What the fuck were they doing?
Arfield and Aribo only players with a bit of directness that might have got in behind or played another in behind. The two best players in the team get taken off. What were they watching out there?
He’s a pointless presence in this team. I don’t know what position he plays in anymore but what striker has fewer shots on goal than he does.
Play breaks down with him now when a couple of years ago literally anything good we did he to go through him.
Hopefully Defoe will be able to continue over the previous regimes tactics / style which should be enough on a big pitch to win this and book in for the final. Gio can start implementing his style as soon as afterwards.
Although we need to kickstart our player trading model and we would get the most money for him I’d be reluctant to sell. When he came back against Ross County he was head and shoulders above the rest .