I actually saw a lesson learned in that the amount of long passes and channel balls played out of defence seemed to suggest we are witnessing Burchball 2.0, where playing 100% through the press is not compulsory.

It didn't work because of one of our other structural weaknesses which is defending set pieces, but it gave me some hope nonetheless.

As I wrote on the match thread, we were second best most of the match but barring a 5 minute spell just before our penalty I never thought we were getting overrun.

We were a few seconds away from winning ugly without playing well, which is what we all wanted.

If that lesson has been learned, and with the right moves in terms of recruitment, I think we have the potential to improve next season.