As ever all the focus on the next game, getting the win and another vital 3 points
I thought over all our lads were very good today, I was dubious about the midfield line up, so was very pleased that it worked very well, although there were issues with the press a few times, Fabinho sitting a lot more and always having the option of Thiago or Hendo for a short pass for them to distribute worked
Hendo was excellent in the press and in the recovery on the one occasion he needed to be, he was a little rusty with his end product today to be fair, but by no means the only one
Thiago is exactly the addition we needed and I was banging on pre transfer window, he has all the passes I said we desperately needed and more and was also excellent in the press, although did go the wrong side trying to win it unsuccessfully 2 or 3 times, little tweaks required with this midfield 3, or rather things that will come with a couple more games
Great options in midfield now, Thiago, Hendo and one other looks great to me, great to see that we now have 2 midfielders in Hendo and Thiago where Fabinho can fit in again
I think today showed again we have to be far more clinical, how we have developed our game under Jurgen we very very rarely give refs the opportunity to give plain wrong calls against us and on today's evidence it's very clear that we need to work harder at that as there were 3 absolutely massive decisions they had to make and given the opportunity and someone with an obvious bias in the VAR hub, we've again witnessed what happens when we are reliant on them getting decisions right and we don't take all power to affect the outcome of our games away from them
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