On Saturday we played much of the game with a back line of Vestergaard and Hoedt, with Lemina dropping deep as a third defender much of the time. This allowed the full backs to push forward a lot more, also giving greater freedom to Redmond and Elyounoussi. We did press Leicester; not to the extent that we did under Pochettino, but a lot more than we’d been doing for the past couple of seasons.
I liked the way we were set up and the way we executed the plan. We should have had a draw at the least from that game, but it was a somewhat familiar story of failing to take chances that we created, then falling to a real sucker punch.
If we continue to play as we did on Saturday I’ll be pretty happy. It was far better to watch than we were for all of last season, and a lot of the one before. I’d also stick my neck out and say that if we do carry on in that vein we’ll win more than we lose. That’ll do for me.