Evans the better player? Evans dragged everyone down I believe. Flecks form has dropped since Christmas.
Hopefully tomorrow we will see more improvements.
Interesting theory which thinking about might actually be correct.
Initial impressions of Evans was favourable. He didn’t seem massively different to Coutts.
Evans likes to show for the ball and consistently makes short passes.
However Evans always chooses the safe option, virtually every pass from Evans is either sideways or backwards.
He also seems to slow down our attacks and Fleck hasn’t been as positive either since Evans arrived.
Lundstrum seems to be the only one being positive but he occasionally gives the ball away and then loses confidence.
The beauty of Coutts was his mastery at controlling the tempo, sometimes his passing was quick and ambitious, sometimes safe and slow. Coutts was a master at keeping possession with sideways passing but at least Coutts could mix it up with great long passing
And he occasionally passed forward trying difficult through balls. Coutts even went on the occasional run dribbling past players too,
Really looking forward to seeing a midfield of Coutts, Fleck and Norwood with Duffy making cameo appearances. Also I wouldn’t write off Lundstrum yet, honestly wouldn’t surprise me if in 3 years he becomes our best midfielder.