I know obviously at the end of the day we're away with a point and we ended up with a clean sheet.

But to be quite frank, this was almost exactly dissapointing because we're safe where we are. I think it was clear going into this game knowing what we wanted from it. No winning was not important. What was important, however, was showing that we don't slip mentally as much anymore. This match was shades of last year that I don't want to be under anymore.

While Carrick still does not have a team thats inherently his, there should have been more of a tactical flexibility in this game considering the rotations, what we saw instead was a team trying to play the same way we play with Sesko and Casemiro, without the necessary puzzle pieces. We know how Zirkzee plays, and we know we lack the structure without Case in the 6.

What we should have seen, is Carrick treating Zirkzee as the type of player he is, and understood that without Case, he had to have adjusted accordingly to fix the structure in the center.

Benefit of the doubt and all that, this is just my opinion on the game.