I've been critical of him, but he got the tactics just right in the final – just like he did away at Frankfurt.
We had no creative players, so we deliberately tried to make it a war of attrition. We kept making niggly little fouls all game to stop United building any sort of momentum and to wind up a few of their players (Fernandes, Maguire). This played totally into our hands. I also think the video by Adam Clery showed that the goal was a typical goal for United to concede because dragged their defenders out of position with movement in and around the box. It looked like something we worked on in training.
Bringing on Danso at just the right time was a good sub. Amorim, on the other hand, got his subs completely wrong. Garnacho with only 20 mins – bad. Mainoo on 90 mins – stupid.
If we had conceded first, we were toast.
If they had equalised, we were toast.
You can definitely beat Ange with the 22 defeats stick (that simply isn't good enough), but I don't think you can say anything critical about the Europa League win. In fact, if we were judging him along on those performances, we wouldn't even be having the debate about his job right now. He actually showed flexibility, resilience, grit, gamesmanship etc in those games – all the stuff that we didn't see in the league.
Also, we won the final, so who gives a fuck?