nottsblue wrote:When we lose the ball, our recovery into getting back into a co-ordinated defensive shape is amazing. Wonder whether this was something we worked on earlier on in the season when results didn’t go our way, but we persevered with, is coming to fruition
It was exactly that. Pep changed it straight after the Spurs game and we went on a bit of a spirt of 5 games without conceding (4 wins and a draw against Porto) before coming up against the Rags where, if you remember, Neville complained that we didn’t go all gung-ho and leave the space for the Rags counterattack.
The following game against Brom can be put down as sheer chance as the draw came from a complete battering of them but their only shot on goal took a huge deflection Following that, the rest is history.