Interesting game of football, that. Still some questions left unanswered, but it's day one. Few observations:
The suicidally high line that many were expecting didn't happen, even in the 2nd half when we were chasing, it was high without being mental.
Maybe it's because I was actively looking at the press, but we did seem to turn the ball over a lot more, but often made a bad decision in transition. Second half was clearly better on and off the ball, with a lot more intensity to the play, and we did create some threatening situations. I'd be really interested to see how the PPDA changes between the 1st and 2nd halves (
@YoungWolf ?). Appreciate a lot of that will be down to Leicester's mentality shifting, but we certainly helped force that with a more aggressive performance.
I thought Kilman did well, particularly like him bringing the ball out, and I thought he defended pretty solidly by and large. Hoever did well against a really shrewd forward, too. Marcal...I just don't like him tbh. He's a momentum vacuum, and people clearly don't trust him on the ball. And he's just not good enough at defending to be that shit going forward, if that makes sense. I thought Neves was absolutely top drawer, that little left footed reverse through ball to Trincao was excellent, and he got about the pitch well. We desperately need a mobile partner for him, ideally one who can carry the ball imo, so we've got another way of progressing up the field.
Obviously wonderful to see Raul back on the pitch and competing; bit of rustiness is allowable, should probably have done better with one header though.
Adama. Oh, Adama. He's such a fucking talent, but it's forever going to add up to zilch for him. Once he'd got there (an act that was incredible in and of itself), it's the kind of chance that any AM/Forward should bury in their sleep. It's such a poor finish, failing to wrap his foot around it was terrible technique. Alternatively the dummy shot and dribbling left around the keeper was definitely on too. On the ball to Raul, I think he saw him - but didn't trust his technique with with either his left or the outside of his right. If he's going to play off the left - and I think that'll be his best postion - then that's something that he really, really needs to work on.
Bruno...set up was about the best he could do, with the possible swapping out of Moutino being up for debate I guess. I think he was a bit slow to react to the changing dynamic and Leiceter's change of formation though. As soon as Vestegaard came on we should have been 442. He did get a reaction out of the lads for the second half, and that was probably as well as we played for a year. Decent start, plenty still to come.
Fans - were absolutely top notch on my stream, Wolves fans were all I could hear. Hope yous all enjoyed your day out
