I liked the new players - they brought an urgency to our game and worked hard to win the ball back and dominate. Tete best out of all of them, but Lemina stood out a lot more as did Areola for how vocal they were on the pitch and how much more they were encouraging the others to pass forward and be more aggressive. Areola had great distribution I thought a lot of balls hitting their mark.
I have to say the game died the moment TC came on - I'm finding it harder and harder now to justify his starting place - I watched him closely today and there were a lot of times where he just kept the ball ticking over and passed sideways or backwards inviting pressure on our defence. Rarely did he seem to look for a forward pass. I know he's a lot of people's lovechild on here, but we lacked any real forward momentum when he came on - he's meant to be a creative/attacking outlet and you could be forgiven for thinking he wasn't. Can't have him and Reed in the same lineup, they're too negative.
Our worst players in truth were our championship players from last year- Knockaert was soo wasteful, he and Kebano hardly had any real noteworthy efforts. Kebano was a threat from a freekick but not much else...
Don't get why Bryan was put on as a RB for Tete - he looked extremely uncomfortable in that position and his right foot isn't strong enough.
MLM actually looked confident and good, but this was a league one team - definitely don't think he'd look half as good at premiership level.
