Quote Originally Posted by OldWhiteTaff View Post
I do wonder at some of TCs decisions though. Firstly not playing Saiz from the start (although he wasn't beyond criticism, there were a few times when he took 6,7,8 touches when a quick pass was the better option) - surely given the way we play the best approach would have been to really run at them from the start, try and get an early goal then play from there ? Also, was Phillips + Shaughnessy a better option than Phillips + Anita, or even Klich + Anita ? I worry that TC really does have his favourites, and struggles to see beyond them.
After the first 20 minutes i felt like he'd set up the team for a draw today, and nothing in the rest of the game really changed my view of that - especially the substitutions - Saiz was a sort of 'hit and hope' that something might happen going forward, but Klich coming on was a bit of a clincher for me - it was like TC had realised the squad was a bit knackered and he needed to use other players in this game, against the 'bottom team', assuming we had some depth and freshness to at least get a draw.

Unfortunately we didn't and the experiment did suggest we don't have much of that there strength in depth after all.

Like you, i wonder about Anita too, given his previous midfield credentials. Weird.