Not hard to see why Lanzini made a big difference yesterday, so good with the ball at his feet + on the turn. Can see him possibly coming in for Benrahma in the next few games. No brainer that Lingard ran riot against Wolves last year, we didn't have that electricity in our movement and it showed this time around.
Big issue for the international players isn't even necessarily the training or the games – it's the travelling. Think it takes a day for every hour outside of your usual timezone. Antonio might have got the private jet back but it's going to do sod all difference to his body being temporarily 5 hours behind UK time and then right back in again. Not easy.
The problem with brentford was the ball was only in play for about 60 mins. Played well when they wanted, but spent most of the game feigning injury, delaying freekicks, throw-ins and goal kicks and ultimately being a nuisance. Did their job, which wound me up to no end.Diogenes wrote: ↑Mon Nov 22, 2021 9:59 am Not for me. I thought Wolves were quite ordinary, but we were really, really p**s poor. I quite like them as a club etc. but they are nowhere near the form of a couple of years ago. Most of their possession was in their own half and they didn't really pose a consistent threat to our defence. Personally, I thought Brentford, particularly first half, played the best football I have seen against us this term.