Was intriguing in those early Lage games when he was getting quite a few chances running in behind, felt like maybe something had clicked with him a bit and added a bit of an extra dimension with those runs in behind. Could've been onto a winner if that had stuck around and then been able to...
He did on the Norgaard goal. After the shit pass he committed to pressing someone he had no need to and just took himself out the game completely, wouldn't have been that gaping hole for Norgaard to exploit if he'd just held position.
Tonight's the first time in a long I haven't seen them do it heavily and that's because they didn't need to, Bayern went balls to the wall pressing without being prompted and left acres of space for Watkins to run into with minimal cover. They did it away at the Emirates last year and pissed it.
They'll do it again in their next game guaranteed - massive part of how they play under Emery is being really patient when they have the ball deep in their own half and they want for the opponents to commit to a press before hitting the gaps.
Bayern have been stupid the way they've played - tried to play at such a tempo early on that they just made loads of errors completely of their own making. Surrendered the advantage they had in terms of individual talent.
Don't think he did well on the 2nd and 3rd goals yesterday.
If you're staying on your line for the 2nd then you've got to make a decent attempt at a save but it just goes through him like he didn't even anticipate the attempt. Then for the 3rd his starting position looked decent but there was a...
He looks at his best running off the shoulder from what I've seen of him, not what you'd usually expect from someone if his build but I think he tends to look more clumsy when he's got his back to goal. His link up play looks better than his goal scoring instinct at the moment though - as seen...
You could see from how petulant he started to become in games that he obviously wasn't happy with how things were going - must be a real struggle for anyone to go through that sort of injury and recovery, struggling to do things you previously took for granted, never mind when you were...
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