First 15 minutes we looked shaky down the right hand side. Last 15 minutes we looked like we were coasting. The hour in between we looked absolutely sensational.
So many huge performances, I thought Tielemans ran the show again. Maatsen was great. Rogers must be horrible to play against if you’re an opposition defender. I can’t fault us tonight, what a performance.
I’ll take a point and clean sheet against that lot no matter how much drama they are supposedly going through. We did well to adjust to Ez going off so early, Jaden probably should have scored at the end but the first quarter of the season in on the books and I’m pretty happy with how it’s gone.
I can’t see it amongst the fans, even going by the comments in here people are pretty sympathetic towards Bailey at the moment. He probably had twenty good minutes in him and was on the bench in case we were chasing a goal at the end. JJs injury forced an unexpected change and Bailey had to come on sooner than expected. I don’t think him getting hooked after coming on has any impact here, he did his minutes and we got through the game. Sometimes I guess football is about crisis management and he bought us time.
We played like we had one eye on Wednesday night. They played like they knew we had one eye on Wednesday night.
Disappointing result but not a disaster, we do look weak down the right.
This is some nerdy stuff but I think of his 10 goals for us, 4 have been headers. Tonight vs Wycombe, against Bournemouth and against Leeds when we went on that run at the back end of 22/23 to qualify for Europe and against Everton in his first season. He likes a header as much as he likes a goal against Everton.