Mikel really planned for this game. You can see that he understands City. He was very happy to put 10 men at the top of the box and force them to cross the ball in the air knowing a) they don’t cross as well as Pool and b) our centrebacks will eat everything up anyway.
And as risky as it felt, he did a good job of building our confidence and breaking through their first two lines of defense by playing on the floor from our goalkeeper. Unlike Pool, they don’t have Fabinho, Gomez and Van Dijk in behind once you’ve crossed the first two lines of defense so this was such a smart approach.
I heart our manager.
