Not half way stage but kind of half way stage id rate his reign about a 6.5/10.
Have to say I expected a little bit more in terms of the development of our play....
We work harder but in general we're still quite far off being a well drilled football team and id be surprised if this side finished in the top 4. We don't really control games and our last three league games before this World Cup we've been playing like the underdogs. We're still very error prone in possession, our pressing is still disjointed and bar the spurs game we don’t sustain attacks.
His Positives have been his interviews, the way he's handled certain players and he's identified shit players and replaced them as soon as he’s had the chance. The attitude of our players has increased tenfold. There’s not a lot of strutting around. All of his signings as individuals are upgrades on who they replaced but unfortunately I don’t think it’s made us a better overall football team which is kinda weird.
I'm not sure about the whole tucking full backs inside and having your wingers hug the line . It doesn't look right to me and isn't effective. When Casemiro gets the ball our wide players are too far from him and Bruno and eriksen too far ahead. And when we get swarmed (as we did today) it makes it difficult for us to control midfield.
We don't have a lot of overlaps so we barely put crosses into the box meaning we’re not giving our forwards enough scoring opportunities in the box. I just don’t get what kind of football were trying to implement at the moment.
I don't think it helps when we lose one or two key players either because the back ups are of mid/lower table level (Elanga, Lindelof, Mctominay, Ronaldo etc) but the levels of performance in those games against villa West Ham and Fulham should not happen regardless.