“I was impressed with the quality of the football we showed this afternoon and [was pleased] to see our players expressing themselves on the pitch,” Silva said afterwards. “The pace we played, the intensity we played with when we lost the ball, and our organisation…
“Of course, there were some very good individual performances but, in general, as a collective we did really well with a lot of mobility in our offensive organisation. The three front players played a very good game with Alex in behind.
He sound surprise at how well we do and it appears he stumble upon a working formula. To be honest many of us have been screaming for Schneiderlin to be drop ages ago and desperately want us to play with pace n tempo.