Fabulous Fornals has a stormer

Fornals enjoyed his best game in claret and blue

It was easy to see why David Moyes is a Fornals fan at lunchtime.

Very often the Spaniard appears to do much running and expend loads of energy to little effect but it all came together for him today and I reckon he had his best ever game for us.

Whilst Jesse Lingard’s surging runs from deeper caught the eye Pablo was finding space and his men in tight spaces within a very decent Manchester City defence.

Beyond that, his hold up play was excellent and for the first time, my eyes were regularly drawn to the 25-year-old who along with Declan was my man of the match this afternoon.

Declan, of course, is just one of those extraordinary players who comes along once or twice in a lifetime and was at his best this afternoon when we needed him most.

Tomas Soucek was amazing and will we ever be able to get over the fact we played just £5 million for the amazing Vlad Coufal.

As Ray Stewart put it so perfectly: “We were always gonna find out how good we are today and we showed we are a very, very good team indeed.”