Give MOM to Patterson, very disciplined defensive performance, played at his level today. Also decided I can't give it to Jarrad every week, but what another totemic performance from him. Dom, what a finish, if Haaland scores that the sky bots are flapping over it in the studio, all we get is a replay, "bad defending" and move on.
Only criticism is that it should have been two or three, but for some more wasteful play in the final third and the stubborn decision of Dyche not to make any subs, could see the team needed freshening up in the last twenty, bit baffled we didn't throw throw on some subs to get at them a bit more. Maybe we're planning on our B team getting us through Burnley on Wednesday so are happy to let a few of the forwards empty the tank, only time will tell if that's the shout and whether it's even a good one.
Tbf I fancied us today, onwards and upwards, mid table to top half finish has to be a realistic ambition now, our underlying metrics suggest that's where we're heading.
UTFT