Yeah but I don’t like what Fabinho offers us either! We look a bit more fluid since Trent’s move to midfield and I think to make that work properly we need a mobile DM who has a better passing range and not fall over his feet everytime someone comes near him. Fabinho got lucky a number of times tonight from that. Palhinha is more similar to Fabinho than to what I actually want from a midfielder next season.
Not putting him down as a player, I think he’s good, just not the right fit for us in my opinion.
There’s a pattern here, our performance dips in the 2nd half and the substitutions don’t appear to improve things. I’m not a fan of bringing three subs on at the same time. For the last 20 minutes, we allowed Fulham to dominate possession and we were very naive in stoppage time, failing to retain the ball and run the clock down.
Very good first half performance, 3 points, we move on.
I think we both want the same type of player as when we are pressed that is when Fab shows his weakness, we need to evolve with our DM from what we have used previously
