The Moyes verdict
Shedding a perceived nervousness to venture away from a defensive mindset he went for it in a big way and was paid off in spades by a team on fire.
What was even more pleasing to see were the genuine smiles, hugs and sincere congratulations during the goal celebrations – we finally looked like a team that was finding its way forward.
The Haller/Antonio combination worked a treat – as it had done at St Mary’s and was a major part in us landing our first double of the season.
The Saints defence really had no answer to the pair of them and that Haller should have the confidence to supply a rabona for Fornals to provide the assist for Michail’s goal was something to behold.
But the bottom line was the manager’s approach to the game and with the defence performing so well let’s hope for more of the same against Arsena; and Wolves.
Commenting at https://www.whufc.com/news/articles/2020/february/29-february/david-moyes-there-were-lot-good-things-performance the manager said: I said before the game that good performances lead to results – we had a good performance at Liverpool on Monday night and I always felt that the players have been improving.
We took it on today, it was a different kind of game to the one against Liverpool and we created a host of chances. In fact, we could have been further out of sight a bit earlier.
We were fairly clinical – we got through with three or four counter attacks and didn’t make the final pass to get the opportunity to score. but in the end we got the goals. Seb’s goal was a really good one – he jumped with the goalkeeper and won it back.
He had a great chance with a header prior to that, Michail had the chance to play Jarrod Bowen in for a goal and it didn’t quite come off, and then he breaks away himself and gets the third goal to put the game to bed.
There were a lot of good things and a lot of good performances.
Michail is powerful and the longer the game went on Seb Haller grew into it as well. They became a real handful, the two of them, so great credit to them both.”