That... wasn't great.
With the best will in the world MacAllister is not a top class 6. He is more like Joe Allen, all heart, lots of good positioniong, but lacking the strength and power to truly dom,inate that area. You also lose the best part of his game, his ability to drive forward with the ball.
It was unnerving how often the ball over the top was undoing the backline. VVD used to be able to cut out that ball easily with his pace, but seems to be either incapable or reluctant to do more than a handful of fast sprints in a game now.
The biggest issue was how unbalanced the side looked when TAA came into the middle, the Germans had two or three great chances at the start of the second half when he was caught out of position. It feels like TAA is being asked to do too much simply because the holding midfielder is just not capable of dominating that space he comes into to support.
Up front I would personally prefer Nunez to Jota, the front three of Diaz, Salah and Jota are too similar.
The new players look good but are adjusting, but it feels like the problems from last year are still unresolved.