Oranges038
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Well yes but last season we pressed regardless of that. ETH has picked up some Wembley pragmatism it seems. We were told that the price of backsliding would be that we would never get where we are going. That's the concern. I'm not ETH in because he wins games. He doesn't. I support him because he's building towards a better style of play.
This is sort of performance we didn't see last season. There were games where it looked like they just had to control the flow of the game and see it out. But they'd find a way to feck it up and end up throwing away a game and making it a total scramble. Like the Coventry game. Now, for me, the absence of Casemiro in midfield today was part of the reason for that, he's too loose in possession and has a tendency to go walkabout. Mainoo and Eriksen just kept the midfield play simple for the most part and controlled the game once it settled down.
Remains to be seen if this was a one off or it will get better, but I wouldn’t mind a few more wins like this to build confidence and team spirit.