If it wasn't for Richarlison, we likely (in previous years), would have concede a late equalizer. This is the strength in depth and quality of someone off the bench that he gives us that we haven't had for years.
Remind me, did Hamann play for Saltypool when Roy Evans was in charge? Because I remember that tactic they deployed where they would run down the clock passing in a U-shape from RW through their defence to the LW and back again (before Steve McManaman inevitably gave away possession the second he tried to play out again), which apparently should have been half a dozen bookings...
