I agree on all these points. Nonetheless I think it would have been even better if Diaz on the other wing was the free man, because the distance to pass to him is even bigger in that situation which makes that pass, even if he is free, much more difficult and risky to pull of than the pass to Salah. But as I already said that's nitpicking and the difference between good (which this was) and perfect.
Not perfect no, but this was a very good example of how to set up to prevent central progression. How when inexperienced players make mistakes, to be in the positions to take advantage of them.
Shifting the entire defensive structure as you say would be the perfect thing here but we’re not there yet (and with so many defensive injuries and rotations of partnerships I think that’s a fair place to be).
I feel like you're splitting hairs a bit here. The options were what you'd come to expect and what they faced all game, he had 3 options and normally it would have been a mundane passage of play if not for the mistake.
Ambling may be harsh, it was just Bruno getting frustrated and doing what he does where he just starts sprinting off to press even though he normally is easily bypassed in these situations. Normally, 30 seconds later he has his arms in the air asking why nobody backed him up. This time he got a gift instead, and pulled off a great finish.
If one of our players did that then I'm confident you would be here saying it was a bad mistake and cost us etc.
I’m pointing out the intricacies of how this stuff works because if I don’t people misrepresent my views and I get called a ******* or whatever other lazy rubbish comes out.
It really wasn’t Bruno just frustrated, you can see the pressing trigger is when Quansah comes inside on his left foot, Højlund shadow covers the centre and Bruno’s man and that is the trigger for Bruno to go.
Was he sprinting or ambling?
I 100% believe Quansah made a mistake and good defensive structures enable you to punish them.
Had AWB not held his run, had the midfielder not followed their midfielder, had Højlund not shadow covered and Bruno spotted this trigger. Despite Quansah’s mistake we wouldn’t have been in a position to capitalise.