I think about 99% of the fans, myself included, got it as wrong as Lenny today. I thought the best team to beat the Sevco today was the one Lenny picked and not the one that we'd playing recently, with Ntcham in the Number 10 role and Corpus out right and Jamesy out left. I think we probably would've been more effective with that system now. But everyone and their auntie was calling for Johnston in on the right, Corpus back to Number 10 and Jamesy back to the right.
When we beat them, with ease, at Ibrox at the start of the season, is it notable that we had Bitton and Jullien playing centre-half? Big Elhamed at right-back (ofc, Frimpong was one of our better players today)? I think we just got the system wrong. At Ibrox, Johnston was excellent - cuz, hey guess what,we pressed them high and Johnston was on top form and injury free. Today he got caught up in a shit system. Back at beginning of the season, we got right in their faces and took them seriously and we brushed them aside like an afternoon at Tynecastle.
Today, however, we sat off them and, so bizarrely, let them play their own game and then, when we did win back possession, our midfield seemed to have no discernible shape, or we decided to bypass our midfield, or play lots of passes in our own half, as if Brendan Rodgers was back in the dugout ...
Would the team that started against Lazio have beaten this Sevco side? I have no doubt in my mind that we would've. Elyounoussi on the top of his game is a workhorse, but even he can only play within the limits of the system. With reinforcements in January and, Christ have mercy, Lenny learning some lessons from this, I'm still confident than we can win the 9.