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He and Morsy had a right battle at times. I remember in the space of 60 seconds Rogers caught Morsy with crackers and I thought here comes the yellow and nothing. It would be interesting to see how many fouls Rogers made. A lot from memory.
In my eyes that is normally the best way to beat us by mixing up your team. KM normally gets the team setup for certain players all week and this might have thrown a spanner in the works.
But saying that we have a strong starting x1 and lots of options from the bench. Fingers crossed.
He has had a free hit for 14 days on the training ground and will be full of energy. Sam Szmodics has had 2 tough games where he has tried hard to impose himself. You could say the same about Ogbene too, although I'm not sure I'd fancy throwing Wesley in after a few hamstring injuries. Tougher call that. I'm sure the gaffer will make the right choice.
Anybody else noticed that Leif kept cutting inside onto his right foot on Saturday. Several times he could have gotten to the line and crossed, but didn't. I assume this was a deliberate ploy. Never really seen him do that so much in one game before.
I think they will be playing against our team of championship all stars. It could be a long night for them. But on the same token their team cohesion might cause our team that will be cobbled together problems.
The more I think about it the more I come to the conclusion Burns going off changed the game. Burns went off on 57 minutes with the match still 0-0. Withing 8 minutes we were 2 down. Luis Diaz seemed to go into overdrive after this and gave poor Johnson a torrid time. Before this Diaz was very quiet. So as I said in another thread having big Wes on the pitch normally takes 2 opponents out of the team to contain him. Hopefully he is back very soon.
I'm pretty sure in the first half Omari was through towards goal running at a defender and had Delap to his left. 2 v 1 and somehow he kicked it against the defender and the chance was gone. Am I imagining this? Why was that not on highlights? From memory he should have ran towards the right and waited for the defender to commit and then lay in Delap. To me that was our biggest chance of the first half.
I was a little worried when he players against Shakhtar Donetsk. But today he was pretty awesome against solid opponents. Looking forward to seeing him develop.