What a game!
Brilliant fighting performance. Good to see Gomez get MOTM, thought he was great. Milner had Foden in his pocket all game - the old man is not dead yet. Quite surprising how Foden seemed actually afraid to take him on, maybe Milner put the frighteners on him in the tunnel. Jota was tireless down the left - hope he is ok. Whole team played well let's face it. (I would have been giving Nunez pelters if Citeh had equalised cos he was really wasteful/greedy in 3 situations, but we'll give him a pass for youthful over-excitement.)
Hilarious to hear Martin Tyler trying to keep alive the "controversy" over their obviously correctly disallowed goal ("I always think these things should be judged at normal speed" was his comment after it had been disallowed). The only controversy is why the the f**k the ref needed to see it again on VAR when it was blatant at the time. (For one horrible moment I thought VAR was going to focus on the kick out of Alisson's hands instead of the actual foul.)
Anyway, great performance, great result. Great to see Mo silence the doubters as well.
I also liked the fact we basically played a 4-4-2. Been advocating that for a while. Think it makes even more sense with Trent coming back, and it was interesting to see him coming on in the right wing position where I would like to see him get a few games, although not reading to much into that as it was so late on.
Great statement from us, and hopefully we now kick on and go on a run.
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