Great result and an overall good performance once we settled into te game. Only real complaint is that a more clinical side could have won that game 4 or 5 nil but maybe I'm being greedy. 3 goals away from home is always good.
I'd say jury is still out on sherwood as he's only had a handful of games but I was impressed to see him adapt the tactics a bit and have the nuts to drop soldado in order to make it work. It slipped under the radar a bit but I thought the Lennon for naughton sub was brilliant. In the past we might have seen someone like Holtby or soldado come on instead just to fill a gap but not do the same tactical job. However sherwood put walker at right wing where he can clearly play in a similar way to Lennon whilst you also have the benefit of his defensive talent.
What's funny is that I think this match was out best overal performance for a while (not counting stoke who were tired and shit) and we were essentially playing the same formation that AVB was caned for (4-2-3-1). The main difference, and something I've banged on about for ages, was we ha a strong, physical and skillful presence up top which I've always felt was vital for the success of that formation.
AVB should have played him when fit. Or we should have bough benteke instead of soldado if that was the planned tactic.
9 days rest or the squad now before the city game. Hopefully we'll get Sandro and vertonghen back and give them a bit more a game this time.
I'd say jury is still out on sherwood as he's only had a handful of games but I was impressed to see him adapt the tactics a bit and have the nuts to drop soldado in order to make it work. It slipped under the radar a bit but I thought the Lennon for naughton sub was brilliant. In the past we might have seen someone like Holtby or soldado come on instead just to fill a gap but not do the same tactical job. However sherwood put walker at right wing where he can clearly play in a similar way to Lennon whilst you also have the benefit of his defensive talent.
What's funny is that I think this match was out best overal performance for a while (not counting stoke who were tired and shit) and we were essentially playing the same formation that AVB was caned for (4-2-3-1). The main difference, and something I've banged on about for ages, was we ha a strong, physical and skillful presence up top which I've always felt was vital for the success of that formation.
AVB should have played him when fit. Or we should have bough benteke instead of soldado if that was the planned tactic.
9 days rest or the squad now before the city game. Hopefully we'll get Sandro and vertonghen back and give them a bit more a game this time.
