We finished closer on points to 18th than we did to Everton in 7th and we only scored 41 goals.
It was a shit season, it was a shit European campaign and a cup final means nothing if you don’t win it.
The ball forward to Armstrong being the difference.
Playing out from the back is fine as long as you actually play it out. Something Russy struggled to get us to do all too often, leading to stupid goals conceded.
And the most important thing is getting the ball up the pitch in as few passes as possible.
Will Still seemed to think all you needed to do was build your way up the pitch and commit men forward (even if it’s a CB) to create the overloads and open the space.
Get the ball forward while the space is already there and the quality of chance is drastically improved as we saw today.