Big difference he made, when we had the ball he's so comfortable defending in space that it allowed Lindstrom to go forwards without having to worry about behind him if we lost possession.
We have in actuality the perfect CBs to play three at the back, Branthwaite is superb defending in space also and both those wider CBs have great pace about them, mirrored by the fact in Ndiaye and Lindstrom we have two players whose best spot is kinda a wide forward or winger cutting in
Ultimately we suit some version of 3-4-3 system best.
I said before the game today that at least we have brought Lindstrom and this lad in.
Both are fast, Lindstrom is nearly 6 ft too and this lad is massive.
I look at the team midweek, and honestly in a lot of games and I think it's just been too small and too slow. Wednesday we had Young,
Mykolenko, Mangala, Gueye and Harrison. All slow and small. Doucoure,
Tarkowski are slow and tall,
Ndiaye fast and small.
Anyway I don't think when we are in the position we are, we can't have half the team who are small and slow. It means you can't break quickly, can't defend higher (see the goal) and aren't a threat off set plays.
Lindstrom and particularly
O'Brien help that a lot. It was a no brainer. Absolutely no idea why he wasn't used earlier, but fair play to
Moyes for getting him in.
but early in the season he was better than Tarkowski. So as I said he did OK when he played.
