Another assured performance and it's really telling how better we look as a unit now than we did at the start of the season. I think I said at the time that major issues we had were with decision making and game management and it's night and day how much better we are at it now. The job that Rafa has done with these players is nothing short of phenomenal. People rightly point to Diame's turn around but Perez looked anonymous and lazy against the likes of Wigan last year and now he's using the ball really smartly, always providing an option and linking up well with the players around him. Gayle's off the ball work is sensational at the minute, it's just a shame that he's not a great instinctive finisher or we'd have been out of sight by half time yesterday. Another day where you can't really point to a bad performance. If I had to be picky, I'd say Yedlin stands out like a sore thumb amongst the rest of his back four but he's never been outright terrible, just the weakest link of the four. Still, we're ending the season strongly, looking good at home and we can probably relax a bit.
Also, yesterday pretty much exposed Wagner and his beautiful footballing philosophy for what it is; total bullshit. He gets all this praise for his "philosophy" that seemed to involve a 6 foot 12 bloke at full back, 3 other giants clobbering into us, a little micey cunt in midfield who was only there to spoil, 8 men sitting on the edge of their own box and a total aversion to attacking until about an hour in. And then the little speccy nonce goes on MOTD and says they were worthy of a point! What, with their one chance? Just because you've set a team out to defend a 0-0 doesn't mean you deserve a point just because your players ran around and executed an anti-football tactic. Sadly, I think there are 3 other teams who'll drop but fuck me, what an unlikable set they are. Rafa even has better glasses.