No surprise the two players on the pitch for us that you’d say will definitely start first game of the season in Laporte and Silva have stood out like a sore thumb. Silva looks younger, fitter and hungrier than anybody else out there.
Angelino needs a lot of basic defensive work, positioning is leaving him unable to track properly and he will quickly have to learn to stay on his feet in the box in this league. Rodri’s got a lot of sharpening up to do both in and out of possession. Be very interesting to watch his games, I suspect we will see marked improvements game by game as Pep gets his fundamentals drilled into him, can tell he’s still trying to process it all. Bernabe oozes quality. Our penalty looked like a dive without the benefit of a replay, apologies if I’m wrong but don’t want to see that from any of our players.