mrb85
Player Valuation: £35m
As one of the few on here who support playing a defensive MF 3, I'd have gone with Besic as well as Barry. No harm given our one goal advantage in going with that to keep that advantage for as long as possible, with attacking replacements on the bench should it not work out. As it was, our MF was paper thin. The two in it were overrun, so much so that McCarthy had arguably his least effective game ever. He was still chasing the ball around but with no other supporting MF he was just being passed around with no difficulty. There's no point in one man chasing the ball. He's got to have a follow up support with him. But the team selection meant that that support was never going to be there.