I am not getting carried away with 45 (good) mins of a friendly against a fairly mediocre Monaco side but at the same time, I think this is a bit negative about the second half. Or reading too much into it.
We were without Mac, Jones, Araujo now, Jacquet,and then obviously Leoni, Gomez, Hugo and Bradley. That second half team wouuld have been way stronger with a few of them in.
I agree with the final part that we should be buying better first teamers, but I think it´s not based on anything we saw today.