Barnfred 55
Player Valuation: £80m
Pretty much agree with this. Voted Lookman who had one of those games but Vlasic looked just as tricky at times. Feeney was impressive with his positioning and the manner in which he marshalled the defence. Beni caught out of position a few times as he was drawn into the middle by his natural instinct, but he is so calm and in control in possession he was a pleasure to watch. If we don't bring in another CM in January, I can see him playing alongside Gana regularly in the second half of the season. He'll overtake Davies in the pecking order IMO.Lookman
Vlasic
Feeney
Baningime
head and shoulders above anyone else
Both our starting debutants can be proud of their performance and Broadhead showed great signs of promise too.
Apart from some poor performances from 2 or 3 of the senior players on display, the only disappointment from last night was not seeing a bit more of Anthony Gordon. I know he's still only 16, but I was really looking forward to seeing how he fared against open age opposition last night and 5 minutes just wasn't long enough.
What pleased me most last night was the way we broke in numbers and got back in numbers too. Something we just haven't seen this season. There was one break they had late in the game from one of our corners, and players like Vlasic, Lookman, Feeney etc were breaking their necks to get back goal side, even though we were 3-0 up and the game was effectively over. Fantastic attitude, which all our kids seem to have.
Our kids may not be quite ready to be regular starters at the moment, but nobody can fault their attitude and commitment at a time most of our senior players have been throwing the towel in.