Was at the game yesterday, sat bang on the halfway, right at the very top of the north/sir Alex stand.
Perfect view to assess movement, shape, and positional awareness of the whole team.
Me and my mate spent the majority of the game pulling our hair out at the gaps McT was leaving all over the place. Despite the goals, his overall play yesterday was really quite poor. I thought he was the worst of the midfield 3 by some distance.
But his knack for timing those runs into the box is really bloody good.
The reality is, playing an attacking McT and Bruno in the same team means we are going to concede so many chances every game. And against the best teams, that most likely means losing
You can tell that ETH is trying to nullify the impact by having Shaw and Dalot fill the gaps in midfield… but it takes away their own strengths of width and overlapping runs of the wide forward.
The long term fix for me is still finding a true elite box to box 8 to play between the 6 and Bruno.