I love a well defended 1-0. That wasn’t a comfortable win, but a deserved one overall. But it was a bit of a curate’s egg - good in parts.
Just have to say that given his poor run of form earlier in the year, that was a performance from Trent that deserves all the superlatives you can muster; MoM by a very, very large margin. Our two centrebacks were very good too, as was the recently much-maligned Fabinho, and the ever impressive Allison. Diaz is short of match sharpness, but he’s a real threat and will be a handful when up to speed.
Less impressive, if we’re honest, were Mo Salah - who gave the ball away for fun, and who’s decision making was consistently poor, Hendo, who gave it his all, but just wasn’t at the races, more particularly for an hour, and Darwin, who’s performance lent substance to his naysayers. Gakpo was impressive in his cameo, as was young Harvey; I thought we showed again that we are recapturing some decent form.
