Time wasting and diving notwithstanding, tonight was a very good game of football between two good sides.
Their pace and movement was probably superior to ours but we by no means disgraced ourselves. Other than Carter-Vickers’ mistakes, which I have no doubt he will learn from, we’ve conceded five goals and nobody has really had a bad game. Leon is just a machine and it’s hilarious to think that teams can’t handle him, after the stick he got from the other lot from pre-season, right up to the derby!
Man of the match was a toss up between Leon and Lundstram for me. Lundy put some good tackles in, was always available to receive the ball and played some very good passes.
Carruthers looked good when he came on, too, so we showed some depth to the squad in Coutts’s absence.
It’s a pity their number 3 was absolutely shit hot or we’d have got something from tonight.
I did notice McDonald lingering around after the game, he had a good chat with Ched then made sure to shake every one of our players’ hands. He looked at the Kop for a while like he wanted to clap the fans as well, but then probably remembered they’d been calling him a money grabbing wanker fifteen minutes prior. I did think he looked good tonight and would be an ideal Coutts replacement/stand-in, if we could afford him in January.
