What on earth? Composure and made lots of great interceptions. Unlucky his tackle put Maupay in, but that's just one of those things.

Think it’s worth remembering he’s just come in at central midfield when he’s basically not played for two years, had a great run at left back and been dropped again.

Think there’s a lot to be said for his attitude since he’s been here - always been keen to stick around and earn a place in the team.

Think we’d have a real Sorloth situation on our hands if we let him go without giving it some serious thought. Think he’s got a real part to play for us as the rest of our team literally retires around him.

He looked totally lost to me in MF.
This is why he needs game time.

Awful, showy, presumptive analysis lacking in any Intellectual with a prior agenda.
Are you a Telegraph journalist?

No idea what you watched. He won so many interceptions and some nice touches/passes. It’s his first game in midfield for years and looked comfortable.

He’s 23, that’s the key point. Need to hang onto him for when our 30+ year old midfielders aren’t up to ou anymore.

He looks like he's going to fit seamlessly into midfield as one or two of the others are phased out in the next year or two. Vitally important we don't lose him.

I think the first quarter of an hour he looked a bit out of it and the team was struugling to play differently, with weed getting a good spell. Settled in well though afyrt that and the goal raised everything about a major third.

Or an opinion based on watching the game.

Are you a smart arsed twat? (Rhetorical)

Thought he struggled to get in the game for the first 15mins but was very good after that.

Roy did say he’d had the same virus as Luka, so that might have played a role.

He did look poorer than McCarthy, however, Roy did say that he’d had a virus like Luka.

I'm not sure which one's my favourite, maybe the second :D

:supergrin:

I’d like to see him further up the pitch

As someone that was there, thought he did very well. Seemed to fly in to a few tackles and looked good on the ball

He was f*cking exceptional today. His reading of the game & ball retention a breath of fresh air. Anyone saying otherwise just doesn’t understand the modern game.

Exactly this.

Well said that man !!!

Had a good game, should keep Luka out next week but you know uncle Roy will put a stop to that.