Smal

Difficult for him but he is good with the ball. 10/10 passes completed and only lost possession twice.

Was pretty good, you know

I do wonder if he could play left back, like. Was fantastic defensively today and his distribution was top notch too. 93% pass completion in a game like that is something.

Always rated Big Jam.

Leave Bruno alone Pep

7 tackles for Livramento so far in this game. Brilliant display.

Lascelles’ distribution has legit been good

we are seeing what Tonali is actually good at second half

great work from Tonali there

like Wilson, Gordon sets the tone in the press.

He was good against Villa as an 8. That was the only game he had good preparation time for by the sounds of it. The rest of the time he has look lost admittedly, but he’s barely trained so it can be excused. The point is more that his profile is clearly not suited to the role he’s being asked to play tonight imo. He has won most of his duels tonight and made two tackles. That’s more his game.

Tonali is clearly an 8 rather than a 6.

Tonali is good at winning duels and carrying the ball. It’s pretty clear that he can’t play as a 6 though because he cannot do the first phase build up at all.

that has to be a goal, man

love him but Murphy has been terrible. Real lack of work rate too surprisingly

thought we might have a bit more energy than this

this is worse than expected

lol, where was Dummett going

yeah, was Isak’s mistake. He’d already done him.

Wonder if we might line up as a back 5 here.

Dummett . Go on lad

Dubs Livramento Lascelles Botman Burn Longstaff Tonali Anderson Almiron Wilson Murphy

What do you mean then, sorry? "Ball at their feet there is no contest with Colo coming out on top."

Colo definitely had better control in tighter areas but Schar more than makes up for it with his medium and long passing imo. They play XI a side on big pitches. CBs usually have a decent amount of time on the ball with the whole pitch in front of them, so I'd place a higher priority on my CB being able to play defence splitting passes and switches rather than control in small spaces.