JJ will be a £15million player in a year. I’d like to see him next to Sunjic.
He’s definitely our biggest asset, we need to build around him
There are positives and he is a player improving all the time, he needs game time really. Bed him in now imo.
He grew into the game and looked very good.
I actually think Dembele had an ever better game, but think I may be in the minority there.
generalBlueAnother quality performance.
Comfortable.
We have Wales to thank for showing us what a good player he is.
Jobe left and has shown a step up to last season.
Thankfully James is still ours and will flourish under the new system.
I thought he did exactly what you want a CM in this system to do. Collected the ball, turned quickly upfield and played a lot of positive passes into channels for Stansfield to run onto. Always looked comfortable and wasn't giving the ball away.
If Bielik (as the other CM) was supposed to be more disciplined and provide protection for the centre halves then something went wrong there. Sunjic is the obvious alternative alongside James but he doesn't exactly hold his position so I'm not sure that would work either.