Played well enough defensively as always with some crunching tackles but his distribution was pretty shocking and his long range shooting is getting a bit silly tbh. He was further up the field than Cabaye for large parts of the match and that for me is a problem.
I've seen some of his 'all touches in a game' type youtube vids and none of them gave me any indication that he is as rapid as when he was running down the wing at one point. Good signs from him.
I absolutely refuse to be drawn into making derogatory comments about our Europa League opponents because I could very well end up with egg on my face.
Seems as though a couple of folk on this forum aren't too happy about it:
http://ajaxforum.nl/index.php/topic,5728.msg281571.html?PHPSESSID=67h7mrc50c45maagl83ocru3b5#new