Interesting , Burey was the only grown man on the pitch, so dominated...but, played well in parts, scored a penalty, but when on a breakaway one on one, with two open to his right, cocked it up. Esse was not the best player on the pitch, hoped he woud be, but tried too much on his own, one decent switch pass, but on this one half evidence not dominating and not ready for the first team.
In this match it was a bit 424, so when Burey and Esse came off at half time, we went 433 and of even 351, but were better for it, first half no centre mid looking for the ball at all .
Second half, the right back Walker pushed in the mid, and the sub Smith came in to Rb, and we were a better team for it. Walker wanted the ball, the other two mids, Lawson and Allen seemed to respond, suddenly we were passing with purpose. Abdul Abdumalick, the other sub is interesting, short and sqaut, and super strong, in old money one of a front two, but clearly had some thing about him.
All of them look pretty good , but long term pros? hard to tell, the strikers were ok, but Crewe really were children amongst young men, the centre backs looked solid, the players who stood out were lb Nino Adam Maliki , rb/rm George Walker and sub rb Kyle Smith
lessons to learn there!
