For our first game back, I thought we played incredibly well. A lot of tired legs and such towards the end, but I also don't want our players being 100% full fitness in February. I think that would lead to tiredness and injuries much later in the year.
I'm fine with the subs around the 60th minute, give a chance to get some minutes for Maxi, Scally, and Taty. Especially for Maxi since he missed the entire preseason with his knock, I like that Ronny gave him a lot more than 5-10 minutes. I feel it was more important to get Maxi minutes than try to hold onto a game in which we had a ton of away goals. The rust was there, but Maxi's vision is just incredible. Pinged a few beautiful balls to Taty and Medina only for them to fumble the possession.
Defense was very open, which isn't great but I think the player's were adjusting to Ronny's tactics and those spaces can be squeezed with a little more experience in the system. Offensively, it felt more direct than when we played under Dome, which I enjoyed. I think when
Christopher Jee was talking to Ronny at the meet and greet he mentioned that he felt we played around with the ball too much and made too many passes in the final third. Looks like he's just telling the guys to get into the box, make some runs, and finish.
I expected a little more from Medina and Taty since they've already been playing games for a month and a half. They didn't look bad, but they didn't look good either. Medina started well but got lost in the game.
I'm not going to judge too harshly since it is the first game back. I like what I see so far, but I also won't get too excited until I've seen another 5-8 games under Ronny. Looks to be an exciting year if we end up with 8 goal games.
