The Hilton
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I may be attacked for this opinion but I don't think we've been that good, despite scoring 4 times.
Honestly, this hasn't felt that different from Ten Hag ball. The main difference is we've been better at taking our chances.
We have still played a lot of slow, sterile stuff. With Zirkzee being particularly guilty of taking several touches when two would be more than enough.
For the most part, the lads have done well at winning turnovers in midfield and getting at Leicester. However, to put this into context, this is a Leicester side that has made six changes from the weekend. They came here expecting to get beaten and not putting their strongest XI out. It reminds me a lot of how we beat Crystal Palace in the Carabao Cup last season, with people getting excited about a 'dominant' win against a team that chucked it.
Our defending remains comically suspect, particularly on aerials. And I wince every time I see Lindelof or Dalot in duels. Very suspect.
For me it's exactly the same as the how we played under ETH this season, with the difference being that one of the worldie attempts has gone in and we've done better with our chances.
We've still looked very vulnerable, Leicester have had more of the ball than I'd like and if our finishing was as bad as it has been recently we'd be 0-2 down.