I’m not an expert at spotting this kind of thing in live games, needing the MOTD arrows and circles to really understand what is going on, but yesterday it seemed to me that, especially in the second half, we were playing the same formation but with different tactics. There were more hopeful long balls, some of them as a result of us being closed down quickly at the back, without the time to play it out as we like to do.
Nor am I seeing much evidence of this much-touted Plan B, where we pull two back when defending - or perhaps it is just that we are not getting back quickly enough to present a well organised defence.
Early days, but so far we seem to be a decent team playing cultured football when we are given time, but still rather disorganised when the other team is in our face.