It’s definitely a new dawn. But it’s not some kind of new normal for us to win almost every game. This winning run will end and some may feel deflated when it does (I will too, for a little while).
On a positive note, I’m fully convinced we’ll have a really good season 23/24 with some reinforcements, and hopefully get Europe then, if not now.
I’m really warming to the idea of Lo Celso. We would have pretty great midfield options with aggression from Kamara and McGinn and a high technical level with Lo Celso and Dougie. Emery obviously knows GLC well and he does feel like an Emery player.
Since Emery took over we’ve mainly been linked with (relatively) cheap players. Funny to see the difference to the Gerrard era when we were constantly linked with big names.
Have to admit I felt pretty much the same as those commentators. But even though it was an annoying wait in the second half, it’s time to appreciate our defending.
We played brilliantly - until we scored. Then we stopped. Felt so unnecessary to spend the whole second half defending around our box, we should have finished them off early. They were shite.
A lot of players had an off day. Buendia and Moreno were poor, Watkins was kept silent, Dougie was sloppy. McGinn my MotM without a doubt.
Wouldn’t make sense to send him on loan to Nice while paying 2/3 of his wages. He’s still a good enough player so seems stupid to pay lots of money just to get rid.