Rice, the nominal inside-left, was playing deeper with TP5, so Tommy, having glanced behind him, saw that Dec was in MF and able cover LB so he could do a Zinny libero.
I think MA has decided to use Tommy as he would a fit Timber and it's worked perfectly there.
Eddie did really well to control the ball for his chance, used the overlap to cut inside and if he'd got a bit more curl, it would have been a great goal. It was more than any of his teammates did until Gabby M came on.
Is putting it a bit wide really that much worse than Gabby's great shot that unfortunately went straight to the 'keeper? Or Ødin blasting over?
Basically, young Tedward came a lot closer to scoring than their goblin-faced Norgie did. Give him a chance.
I will say that while I'm still a little unconvinced about Kai at inside left, he does give us the tall no.9 plan B we've lacked. Great back to goal work for the assist.
Fabio's looked good at inside left and ESR should deffo be playing more minutes there - look how many shots he's had on target in the few minutes he's played. Kai does win a lot of duels GX style which people ignore.
Dec looks a bargain, Timber looks like he could be world class, Kai hasn't looked better than GX and could just be a very expensive tall, plan B striker and I still feel happier with Rambo than Raya.
Oh, and remember when we all said MA was mad to drop big Gabby at the start of the season? Yesterday showed why the Saliba-Gabby partnership is the best since the days of GG {him, not me} trained CHs. TA, Stevie B, MK, Sol. Saliba's like TA6 with O'Leary's ball-playing ability and Gabby's like MK for aggression. We've looked so much better since we've had the back 4 back.