M35: Athletic vs. Sevilla [2019-20]

I do see where you coming from though. There have been like a handful of games that have been on a knife edge and could have went the other way. If we had lost them then of course we’d look at things differently and Lopetegui may be under more pressure of losing his job.

That’s why the thing the team and Lopetegui need to work on is killing games off when we get ahead. As we can’t always win by the odd goal and scrap through all the time.

However, I’m confident we will improve on that in time. Especially if we keep our best players and recruit well again in summer. It is heartening to know though in matches that get scrappy or complicated that we can emerge victorious under Lopetegui. Under many previous managers we would have lost a lot of these tight games.

Lopetegui is very good at winning ugly and he makes good changes in 2nd half that has turned the tide well for us in matches. Now we just need to work on trying to make more matches more comfortable and turn on the style more.

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