Another reason why I hope Eddie is with us for the next 20 years, it means we won't have been vaporised in that time.
There were a couple (if you count one person's multiple personalities) who knocked one out over his record.... (not the one he never got to play at the SOS).
I don’t care about being best in the world - I am just enjoying watching us play again. We had Rafa, who seemed to want to just wear the opposition down with relentless defence. Steve whose idea of changing that was to slowly make the defence worse while claiming we couldn’t change as the defensive approach was too ingrained. We finally have a manager who wants to play forward thinking football and has managed to somehow get every onboard with that within a few weeks. Its helped that all the defensive players we bought are comfortable on the ball and why Schar is back playing. Yesterday certainly showed that the starting midfield struggled against a team with good mobile midfielders. Thought both Shelvey and Willock struggled badly and it was clear that Fraser was shattered and Murphy didn’t provide a lot of support. Southampton are a similar side to Brighton. Armstrong, Romeu and Ward-Prowse work very well together. I trust Eddie to see that we need Bruno from the start.
He was the same Shelvey. Its just we lost the midfield battle and so he wasn’t able to play to his strengths, which are distribution when he has time on the ball. He is ineffective when he is trying to break up play. He just drops deeper and deeper and leaves space that opposition can exploit and ends up nullifying rest of midfield as they end up chasing shadows. We are going to be in same position against Chelsea and Southampton so agree we should play Bruno instead for those.
He always does. When we are winning that midfield battle it’s worth it as he brings the creativity that means you can exploit that dominance.
Checked shelveys stats yesterday Not one tackle one and not one foul made either. He's just floating around in front of the back 4
No chances created either. Ge basically didn’t do anything. Actually I remember him losing the ball which nearly led to a goal for them.
His pass accuracy wasn't that good either. The thing is he does do a job ans has been playing better, but it's down to the efforts of Joelinton and willock giving him space and time. If you're swapping Bruno anyone right now it should be him, but I don't think Bruno will get a start until there's an injury. Wilock was motm for me yesterday.. Burn or willock.
On the evidence so far definitely... It's been an incredible turnaround. The injuries we've had would've relegated us under most managers yet we've kept winning. Outsiders will say he's had 100ms blah blah blah but 1. Most of that isn't on the pitch 2. Trippier max and Wilson got injured 3. Results were improving before January along with possession 4.other clubs spent money in January too like Everton for example.
