Nothing really specific, It was more just about making sure we kept pressing on, because with the conditions the way they are and the training loads been pretty high, I didn't want us to back off in that moment and really [wanted to] push to half-time just more for our fitness than anything else. We thought it was a good opportunity for us to push on and try to be even more aggressive than we had been up to that point.
Yeah, I thought it worked ok. Obviously they are three very young players in that midfield set up and as you said, the first time they had played together. But yeah, for the most part I thought they handled it pretty well. I think Lucas found it tough physically. It's a very demanding role in there and it's gonna take us a while to get him up to speed from a physical perspective, but you can see the quality he has when he's on the ball.
And Archie, he's what he's shown the whole time. He's been very composed, he seems to understand the game really well and, and, you know, for the most part, I thought he was taking up the right positions. But again, physically I think we're gonna have to build him up. And I thought Pape's running is just unbelievable. He's a benchmark for us in that midfield area.
So, yeah, I think the three of them - considering they're so young and that's the exciting bit — if we keep pushing them and improving them, they're gonna be very good footballers for us
I thought it was a decent game, obviously with the conditions and you know we've been training pretty hard so we didn't probably look as sharp as we have been, but within that, I thought the players still gave everything and some good passages of play. The game was very open at the end I think, very stretched. As I said, the conditions were really difficult for the players but they never stopped, they kept trying to play and I think overall we were better for that game.