Silva was absolutely magic all game. Vintage, he could play here until he’s 40. We looked lethargic and sloppier than usual. I know it was hot but it’s hot for them too and they had 20% of the ball.
Our Soft belly was exposed at times with gundogan in the middle infront of otamendi who had another one of his David Luiz impersonator type of games today. Zinchenko wasn’t much better either just seemed dozy today, Laporte held them together and Ederson came up with the big saves when needed, remember when people used to say he doesn’t make saves?
The rest of the starters were simply alright, Sergio looked a lot sharper and probably won’t be too happy we strolled through the last 25 minutes as he looked like he wanted that hatrick.
Rodri coming on gave us the control that we had been lacking all game and gave us that comfortable win. a rolls Royce of a player already and it’s clear to see he’s still got plenty of adjusting and improving to do over the coming games too. Exciting
Var is going to dominate this thread. Was a clear penalty, you won’t find a single sane fan regardless of what team they support that will say that isn’t a penalty, they’re clearly using it wrongly to back refs but it’s not going to be changed until at the very earliest the end of the season and at least it’s consistent, has there been a single on field penalty decision overturned yet? Let’s not have every single thread making us sound like scousers claiming everything is out to get us. statistically it’s going to happen to us more because we have the ball in the opponents box more but we’re not alone, i watched 3 games this weekend Chelsea united and us and it’s happened to Chelsea and us which didn’t impact the result and the most blatant of penalties you’ll ever see prevented United from getting points yesterday so let’s just not have 100 pages of scouse “everyone’s out to get us” hysteria.