I think, he didn't do all too much today, no good nor bad, team picked himself more or less and game plan wise he was restricted to what the personnel is able to offer. In total, I like what I see, he is able to react in game, he seems to be able to sub people who aren't playing well and I trust him, to up our level as a team in general.
I noted two points though, that I find irritating:
a) his insistence to play Bruno in the way Bruno plays. For whatever reason, Bruno isn't really contributing much. Yet he is still on the pitch the whole 90minutes. I think, that is problematic, he is the appointed captain, fair enough, but I have a feeling, that he isn't as strict in terms of handling players towards Bruno than he is to others.
b) I feel, our approach isn't really "tight". He seems to like to have his wingers high and wide. Which is fine of course but then the rest of the team has to try to stay closer to them. Today Fred (who undeniably had a pretty bad game) had acres of space to work on because Shaw stayed rather deep. This led to our midfield being "broken", as Fred was all over the place, Casemiro was close to defence and Bruno did what Bruno always does, he is drawn towards the penalty box. Don't get me wrong, I get the system, FBs tuck in, next to CMs so wingers can stay wide. But the FBs aren't dynamic enough to make it work. I watched City today, Pep is one of the first managers (afaik) who employed that inverted FB thing and has his wingers play wide and high but it was estonishing, how much defensive work has been done by Foden especially.
Of course, it will take time to get somewhere but I feel it is rather odd, that ETH seems to be intend to stick to a somewhat flawed system, especially if the keyplayer in Eriksen is missing (whos presence covered most of the systematic issues before).
